notes there are now work-stations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh.

注意到，现在有些计算机工作站使工程技术人员可以在他们的办公桌上设计、试验和生产芯片，就像一位编辑在苹果机上编出一份时事通讯一样。

Later it was found that there was a type of mosquito which acted as the carrier of this disease and passed it on to the rabbits.

后来又发现，有一种蚊子是传播这种疾病的媒介，能把此病传染给兔子。

Eventually the turtle has been butted all the way down to the floor of the tank.

这只海龟最终被撞到池底。

The remains of plants and animals that lived on land are much more rarely preserved, for there is seldom anything to cover them over.

曾在陆地上生活过的动植物的遗体被保存下来的更为罕见，因为陆地上几乎没有什么东西覆盖它们。

The reason lies in its gravity.

其原因在于月球的重力。

An ocean wave passing through deep water causes a particle on the surface to move in a roughly circular orbit,

穿过深水的海浪使水面上的一个微粒按照一种近乎圆形的轨道移动，