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长难句分析练习—陈喜文 Cynthia
By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the
omnibuses, horse railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled
settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centers than
they were in the pre-modern era.
Over long periods of time, substances whose physical and chemical
properties change with the ambient climate at the time can be deposited in a
systematic way to provide a continuous record of changes in those properties
overtime, sometimes for hundreds or thousands of years.
Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the
DSDP’s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady
position on the ocean’s surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting
samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor.
The history of clinical nutrition, or the study of the relationship between health
and how the body takes in and utilizes food substances, can be divided into
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长难句分析练习—陈喜文 Cynthia
four distinct eras: the first began in the nineteenth century and extended into
the early twentieth century when it was recognized for the first time that food
contained constituents that were essential for human function and that
different foods provided different amounts of these essential agents.
The impressive gain in output stemmed primarily from the way in which
workers made goods; since 1790’s, North American entrepreneurs — even
without the technological improvement — had broadened the scope of the
outwork system that made manufacturing more efficient by distributing
materials to succession of workers who each performed a single step of the
production process.
The fact that artisans, who were looked on as mechanics or skilled workers in
the eighteenth century, are frequently considered artists today is directly
attributable to the Arts and Crafts Movement of the nineteenth century.
Coincident with concerns about the accelerating loss of species and habitats
has been a growing appreciation of the importance of biological diversity, the
number of species in a particular ecosystem, to the health of the Earth and
human well-being.
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