Headline-writers struggled to find synonyms for “historic”.
撰写新闻标题的记者绞尽脑汁为“富有历史意义”寻找同义词。
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The race was to sequence the human genome, all 3 billion genetic letters of it, and thus-as headlinewriters put it-read the book of life.
竞赛的目标是人类基因组的序列,包括共30亿个基因字母,正如标题中作者写的——阅读生命。
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Richard Feely, a researcher at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, provided a gift to headlinewriters when he dubbed acidification “global warming’s evil twin”.