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Diagnosis rats诊断率

white rat白鼠

pouched rats非洲巨鼠

rat race激烈竞争（商业上）；无意义的竞争；环形导波管

BOOMTOWN RATS新兴城市老鼠

mall rat逛商厦迷；爱逛商店的年轻人

City Rats城市里的老鼠

like a drowned rat浑身湿透（象落汤鸡）

Ovariectomy rats去卵巢大鼠

rat on撤销；背叛，告发

rat poison杀鼠剂，老鼠药；[毒物] 鼠毒

newborn rats新生鼠

female rats雌性大鼠

mall rats逛商厦迷；爱逛商店的年轻人

pack rat不可靠的人，有敛癖的人

mole rat鼹形鼠

smell a rat感到不妙；感到有可疑之处

water rat河鼠；（美）麝香鼠（等于muskrat）；岸滨小偷

Desert Rats沙漠之鼠

英汉例句

• 「these rats can do something amazing, 」 he continued, 「but even if you accept that it worked within their lab, are they still good at it a year later?

  “这些老鼠有着令人惊奇的能力，」他补充说，「你甚至可以接受它们在实验室里工作，但是一年之后它们还具有这种能力吗？

• i’m guessing those damned rats disappeared after the wedding.

  我猜想那些可恶的老鼠在她婚后消失了。

• if skinner kept the focus on rats and pigeons and dogs, he would not have the impact that he did but he argued that you could extend all of these notions to humans and to human behavior.

  如果斯金纳只是研究老鼠鸽子或是狗，他就不会拥有如此巨大的有影响力了,但他宣称，这些概念是可以应用到,人类以及人类行为中去的。

• no wonder that all the big carmakers are fighting like rats in a sack to win the largest piece of the action.

  怪不得所有大的汽车制造商为了在这一回合中赢得一杯羹，打得像麻袋中的老鼠一样。

• there is one small problem: much of the dopamine research is done through lab work with rats and monkeys.

  还有一个小问题:多数的多巴胺研究是通过实验室中对老鼠和猴子所做的实验来完成的。

• in 1348 the plague or “the black death」 arrived in europe from traders coming from asia and was spread by rats that arrived on trader’s ships.

  在1348年，一场瘟疫或者黑死病通过从亚洲来的商人来到欧洲，并被在那些商人的商船里的老鼠传播开来。

• she started talking about the rats again; they wouldn’t leave her alone.

  她又开始谈论起那些老鼠;它们老是不离开她的噩梦。

• the disease is spread by rats and transmitted to people by fleas or, in some cases, directly by breathing.

  疾病通过老鼠扩散，通过跳蚤传播到人身上，当然在有些病例中，直接通过呼吸传染。

• since rats do have some of the same neural systems we do, the rat research could have implications for humans, though stress in humans is more complicated than in rodents, the researchers say.

  由于老鼠的一些神经系统与我们人类相同，对老鼠的研究可能会对人类有所启发，尽管在人类的紧张比老鼠更复杂，研究人员说。

• the rats gnawed away some of her furniture.

  老鼠咬坏了她的部分家具。

• the wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits-are they our friends or our enemies?

  野生的动物，比如老鼠和兔子，他们是我们的朋友还是敌人呢？

• the son of a wichita, kansas, auto parts dealer, he was an eagle scout who dreamed of becoming a doctor—dissecting rats and cats in his parents' basement to get ready.

  他是堪萨斯州威奇托市一位汽车配件经销商的儿子，做过雄鹰童子军，梦想成为医生——準备好在他父母的地下室里解剖老鼠和猫。

• but now they’ve gone into the diagnosis side. because rats can be trained to spot tuberculosis—and to do it better than conventional techniques.

  但它们也能为诊断疾病做贡献了，因为老鼠经过训练可以测出肺结核，而且比传统技术做得更好。

• although the vasopressin cycle and clock-neuron activity are similar in rats and humans, the question of whether the same mechanism occurs in animals that sleep at night remains to be answered.

  虽然老鼠和人的体内的加压素周期和时钟神经元活动相似，但关于发生在夜晚睡觉的动物身上是否有相同的机制的问题仍是未知的。

• the tribe then abandoned the family, leaving them to survive by eating rats and insects.

  于是该部落抛弃了这家人，他们只好靠吃老鼠与虫子才勉强度日。

• you have rats and snakes and mice and fleas.

  你有大老鼠和蛇，米饭，跳蚤“他如此说道。

• scientists in tsukuba, japan, kept 16 laboratory rats awake for 24 hours, by keeping them in a cage filled with an inch of water, then exposed half of them to the smell of roasted coffee.

  日本筑波的科学家们把16只小白鼠放到有1英寸深的水的笼子里，这样保证它们24小时不睡觉。然后，将一半的老鼠放在烘培咖啡的香气中。

• sometimes people see rats the size of a dog in there.

  在这儿，有时人们会看到像小狗一样大的老鼠。

• there may be different causes for the learning and memory problems in rats as opposed to that of humans.

  对于学习和记忆问题，老鼠所遇到的原因很可能全然不同于人类所遇到的原因。

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