1. Human being have thirty-three or thirty-four vertebrae,but a snake may have as many as three hundred.(1)____
译文:人类有33或者34根椎骨,但蛇可能有多达300根椎骨。
2. Over the past two decades, the popularity of the bicycle as a mean of transportation and recreation has increased tremendously in the United States.(2)____
译文:过去的二十年间,自行车作为一种交通和娱乐工具在美国大肆风行。
3. He was only one of the candidates who was going to take the oral defense.(3)____
译文:他只是即将进行口头辩护的候选人之一。
4. For convenience it is common to speak of plants as "herbs," "shrubs," and "trees," but it is really no sharp distinctions among them.(4)____
译文:出于方便人们通常把植物说成草、灌木和树,但其实它们之间没有明显区别。
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