Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.

技术的发展趋势有可能把硅谷重新推向未来。

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。

and because there is so much of it the function would seem to e important.

睡眠占去那么多时间，所以其作用似乎还是很重要。

He mentally visualizes a complex form from all round itself;

他的大脑能从物体周围的各个角度勾画出其复杂的形象，

but children were then too cowed to let them know how they really felt.

孩子们只不过被吓得不敢让父母知道自己的想法罢了。

The former method simply consists of setting an elephant to work and beating him until he does what is expected of him.

强硬法就是驱使象去干活，把它打到顺从为止。