1·Interestingly, the island rule is reversed for small mammals such as rodents, for which gigantism is favored under insular conditions.
有趣的是，对于小型哺乳动物，如啮齿类动物，岛屿规则是相反的，因为在岛状条件下，巨头主义是有利的。
2·Take bubonic plague for example. The disease is most commonly transmitted to humans through flea bites, and the fleas live on rodents.
以黑死病为例。这种疾病最常通过跳蚤叮咬传染给人类，跳蚤生存在啮齿类动物上。
3·Interestingly, the island rule is overturned for small mammals such as rodents, for which gigantism is favored under insular conditions.
有趣的是，对于啮齿动物这样的小型哺乳动物来说，岛屿法则被推翻了，因为在岛状环境下，巨大的体型是最受欢迎的。
4·The ancient fecal material, or coprolite, was littered with seared prickly pear seeds and flecked with small bones from fish, birds, and rodents.
这块古代排泄物或粪化石，同烧焦的多刺梨种子散落在一起，点缀着来自鱼、鸟、啮齿目动物的小块骨头。
5·Numerous insects occupy the marsh, feeding on living or dead cordgrass tissue, and redwing blackbirds, sparrows, rodents, rabbits, and deer feed directly on the cordgrass.
许多昆虫占据着沼泽，以活或死的绳草组织为食，而红翼鸫、麻雀、啮齿动物、兔子和鹿直接以绳草为食。
6·By competing with rodents for seeds, black ants help control rodent populations that pose a public health risk.
通过与啮齿动物争夺种子，黑蚂蚁有助于控制啮齿动物的数量，这些啮齿动物会对公众健康构成威胁。
7·It may also occur among totally unrelated forms that compete for the same resource, such as seed-eating rodents and ants.
它也可能发生在完全不相关的、争夺相同资源的组织中，比如以种子为食的啮齿动物和蚂蚁。
8·Scientists first posed this question in the mid-1990s, after researchers came upon a chemical agent that in rodents seemed to reproduce many of caloric restriction's benefits.
科学家首次提出这个问题是在20世纪90年代中期。当时，研究人员偶然发现一种化学药剂，这种药剂在啮齿动物身上似乎可以发挥和热量限制相同的正面效果。
9·Strychnine is used to kill rodents and pyrrolizidine alkaloids have significant activity against microbes.
士的宁用于杀灭啮齿动物，而吡咯里西啶类生物碱则具有较强的杀菌活性。
10·But that was in rodents.
不过这些都是啮齿动物。
1·Though the technique has been used to control and explore neural circuits in fish, flies and rodents, this is the first time the much-hyped technology has ever been used in primates.
尽管这一技术也曾用在控制和探索鱼、苍蝇以及啮齿类动物的脑中，但这次却是将这项被大肆炒作的技术第一次用于灵长类动物。
2·There is evidence from studies in rodents that cells in a female body do repair damage better than in the body of a male and that surgical removal of the ovaries eliminates this difference.
有对啮齿类动物的研究证明，雌性身体里的细胞可以比雄性进行更好的自我修复，而手术切除卵巢可消除这种差异。
3·For a nation of animal-lovers, Britain conducts a lot of experiments on living beings-some 3.6m in 2009, of which 83% involved rodents.
作为一个动物爱好者之国，英国所作的动物试验——在2009年总计约360万次，其中有83%使用了啮齿类动物——确实算是很多了。
4·The mean proportional volumes of mucous acini were more than those of serous acini except salivary glands of rodents.
除啮齿类动物外，人和其它动物粘液腺中肌上皮细胞的平均体积比高于浆液腺中者。
5·Guinea hogs were expected to forage for their own food, eat rodents and other small animals, grass, roots and nuts, and clean out garden beds.
它们除了喜欢吃一些食物外，还吃一些啮齿类动物和其他小动物，咬嚼草、树根、尖果类的东西，这样同时又像是把花园的地给翻了一遍。
1·Interestingly, the island rule is overturned for small mammals such as rodents, for which gigantism is favored under insular conditions.
有趣的是，对于啮齿动物这样的小型哺乳动物来说，岛屿法则被推翻了，因为在岛状环境下，巨大的体型是最受欢迎的。
2·Numerous insects occupy the marsh, feeding on living or dead cordgrass tissue, and redwing blackbirds, sparrows, rodents, rabbits, and deer feed directly on the cordgrass.
许多昆虫占据着沼泽，以活或死的绳草组织为食，而红翼鸫、麻雀、啮齿动物、兔子和鹿直接以绳草为食。
3·Strychnine is used to kill rodents and pyrrolizidine alkaloids have significant activity against microbes.
士的宁用于杀灭啮齿动物，而吡咯里西啶类生物碱则具有较强的杀菌活性。
4·To sort out this seeming discrepancy, Elizabeth Dumont of the University of Massachusetts Amherst studied the skulls and limb bones of song birds, rodents and bats.
为了找出这种表面上的差异，麻省阿默斯特大学的伊丽莎白·杜蒙特研究了鸟类，啮齿动物和蝙蝠的头骨与肢骨。
5·That public opinion generally welcomes this is, however, a good example of “cutist” prejudice for one species over another: there is no reason to believe that rodents suffer less than other mammals.
（然而，舆论通常会喜欢这种做法，这是“宠物一族”对动物偏好的很好的例证；而且我们没理由相信啮齿动物会经历少的折磨）。