【华慧考博】2019年考博英语翻译每日练习(1月26日)
【翻译-英译汉练习】Perhaps the fact that many of these first studies considered only algae of a size that could be collected in a net (net phytoplankton), a practice that overlooked the smaller phytoplankton (nannoplankton) that we now know grazers are most likely to feed on, led to a de-emphasis of the role of grazers in subsequent research.
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或许很多这些最初的研究只考虑可以用网收集的大小的藻类(网采浮游植物)——一种忽视了我们现在知晓的食草动物最有可能食用的更小的浮游植物(微型浮游生物) 的做法——的事实降低了食草动物在后续研究中的重要性。