There used to be beavers all over the place, something like 200 million beavers, just in the continental United States.

在美国大陆，到处都有海狸，大约有2亿只海狸。

When you get a bagel, it used to be you'd get something this size, and now you get something that's really, really much bigger.

当你买百吉饼的时候，过去你会买到这么大的，而现在你买到的真的要大得多。

Something in chocolate could be used to stop coughs and lead to more effective medicines.

巧克力中的某些成分可以用来止咳，并产生更有效的药物。

He feels it's magical that his vegetable to create something in the place where there used to be nothing.

他觉得他的蔬菜在这个过去什么都没有的地方创造了一些东西，这很神奇。

It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介，成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

But if spin can be proved a universal aspect of black holes, then the rate of spin can be used to infer something very important about a black hole's history.

但是如果旋转可以被证实是黑洞的一个通常的面目，那么，旋转速度就可以用来推断一个黑洞历史上一些重要的事。

People of all ages ask me if there is something that can be done for them. They hark back to how things used to be.

各个年龄段的人都问我有什么办法可以有效地帮助他们，并且总是重复说他们原来如何如何。

I used to be one of the top editors... now I contribute things here and there where I see something wrong.

我曾经是其中的高级编辑……现在，我也不时地贡献一些东西，在那里发现有些地方出错了。

A new regulatory principle in the age of big data, then, might be that people's data cannot be used to discriminate against them on the basis of something that might or might not happen.

在大数据时代，另外一条用于指导规则制定的原则可能是，数据可以用来推断某些事情可能发生或者不可能发生，但这些推断不能被作为歧视的依据。

It tastes like something that used to be an egg, but made some really horrible choices.

它尝起来像过去是鸡蛋的东西，但经过一番可怕的加工制成。

However, the major improvement will be replacing the cumbersome motor-powered tangle of pulleys and cables previously used to move the tail fin with something more elegant.

然而，主要的改善是将取代了以前笨重的发动机，它用于推动缠绕的滑轮和电缆从而使尾鳍的移动更加优雅。

Attributes should be used to describe how to interpret data elements, or describe something about them — in other words, attributes are a form of metadata.

属性应当用来描述如何解释数据元素，或描述关于数据元素的信息—换句话说，属性是一种元数据。

A club used to be like your house, where you could say something and it would stay there.

以前的俱乐部就像自己的家，你能在那里说说话，只有现场的人能听到。

It also activates the millions of people out there who know how to make web pages, and never thought their skill set could be used for something else.

它也可以让那上百万会做网页的人参与到应用程序开发中，这些人从没想过他们的技术可以应用在其他方面。

While the idea of a telepathy machine might sound like something from science fiction, the scientists say it could one day be used to solve crimes.

会通灵的机器，这听来有些像科幻小说中的东西。科学家说，将来有一天，这种机器可用来帮助人们解决犯罪问题。

Lueck, who is listed on her driver's license as an organ donor, says, "If something happened to me, I would want my organs to be used by someone who needed them."

利克女士的驾照上注明她是一位器官捐赠者，她说：“如果我出了什么意外，我希望我的器官能为有需要的人所用。”

Will it be used as a tool or to illustrate something?

可视化的结果是作为一个工具，还是用来阐述什么东西？

At the moment, the idea of divorce became clearer in my mind although it used to be something impossible to me.

这时，离婚的念头在我脑海中变得越来越清晰，虽然曾经我觉得我是不会离婚的。

Script packages can be used to do just about anything since they only need to supply something that is executable along with any supporting artifacts.

脚本包几乎可以执行任何事情，因为它们仅需要提供一些可执行的文件以及任何支持工件。

It’s very difficult if their version is wordy, jargony, inconsistent, or gramatically unsound–but at least I’ve got something to work with that could, if push came to shove, be used.

这相当困难，如果他们的版本是罗里吧嗦，行话连连，自相矛盾或者语法错误，这就非常困难来了。 不过，至少我已经有东西可用，尤其是紧急关头。

It can be hard to get used to not holding something and having something in your mouth. If you have this problem, stock up on carrot sticks, sugar-free gum, mints, toothpicks, or even lollipops.

用一些其他的东西替代香烟或许你还很难适应嘴里不叼一些东西的感觉，如果你有这个困扰，那么就嚼点胡萝卜条，或者无糖口香糖，或者薄荷糖，牙签，甚至是棒棒糖。

From a public health perspective, however, we do not want to pay for something that does not work when the money could be used for something that does work.

然而，从公共卫生角度而言，如果可以将资金用到确实产生疗效的办法上，我们就不会为没有疗效的办法买单。

The relationship between patient and doctor used to be considered something special, almost sacred.

过去，人们常常以为医患关系非常特殊，几乎有点神圣的感觉。

Around 40% of FTSE chief executives have used a personal coach. " it is extraordinary to think you can be excellent at something without a coach."

大约40%富时指数公司的首席执行官们曾经接受过个人辅导“不用辅导就能做好可是不同寻常的想法。”

For example, the architect could create a reusable in-memory cache, to be used in the application when performance needs dictate the need for something like a simple cache.

例如，设计师可以创建一个可重复利用的缓存，当性能需要一个如简单缓存一类的东西时就可以在应用程序中使用。

When you get bored with your creation it can be dissolved and the material used again to make something new or repair old designs.

如果你对自己创作出来的衣服感到不满意，还可以将它溶解掉，溶解液可以用来再做一件新衣服或打补丁。

It can be hard to escape, and even harder to argue against, the feeling that something we used to love is going away, or already gone.

你无所遁迹，或许更无从争辩——因为我们曾经一直深爱的事物能离我们渐行渐远，甚至早已消失在事业——这种情愫难以言喻。

The database has one section called the key store that contains all of the certificates that could be used to sign something to be sent out.

该数据库有一部分称为密钥存储区，它包含用于对要发送的数据进行签名的所有证书。

Something that used to be safe, using the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous.

上网本来是很安全的事情，但是慢慢地变得越来越危险。