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boffins ˈbɔfinz COCA²³⁷³⁵⁸BNC³⁵⁰⁶⁸Economist¹⁷⁹⁰⁵⁺¹⁰
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n.英俚研究员；科学工作者；技术专家boffin的名词复数原型boffin的复数 According to the food boffins, the most tantalising variety involves slightly fatty, grilled bacon between two thick slices of white bread.
食物研究人员认为，最诱人的熏肉三明治是在两片厚厚的白面包中夹着稍微肥腻的烧烤式熏肉。 yeeyan
Water boffins, led by the influential and sober Stockholm International Water Institute, say the Nile is more likely to see huge inward investment than cataclysm.
在冷静而又权威的斯德哥尔摩国际水资源研究所 SIWI的专家眼中，尼罗河流域更可能出现巨大的对内投资，而不是面临人人自危的大灾变。 ecocn
Boffins in Cambridge arrived at the date after feeding300 million facts into a new search engine called True Knowledge.
剑桥的博芬在调查过3亿条事实的新闻搜索引擎“真知”里找到了那一天。 yeeyan
Boffins“did the whole job by hand”, says Paul Wiles, the Home Office's chief scientific adviser.
技术人员“纯人工完成整项工作”，内政部首席技术顾问 Paul Wiles说。 ecocn
A13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.
德国一家报纸于本周二报道，德国一名13岁男孩发现并纠正了美国宇航局有关一颗小行星与地球相撞几率的计算错误。 ebigear
At his instigation, Pfizer's secretive boffins unveiled details of the firm's drugs pipeline, disclosing information for the first time on more than half of its30 research programmes.
在他的鼓励下，辉瑞的幕后研究人员在活动中透露了公司许多研发中药品的细节，首次披露了其30个研发项目中过半项目的信息。 ecocn
Chinese boffins say that character amnesia happens because most Chinese people use electronic input systems based on Pinyin, which translates Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet.
中国的学者指出，“提笔忘字”的情况会发生是因为大部分中国人使用的电子设备输入法都是拼音输入法，所有汉字都通过字母来输入。 cri
For decades the continent's scientific elite watched as boffins in America fled academia to start biotech firms.
数十年以来欧洲大陆的科技精英们目睹了美国同行们逃离科研院所开办生物技术公司的过程。 ecocn
For over four decades the boffins tried to program computers to“ understand” the structure and phonetics of language.
在超过四十年的时间里研究人员试图通过编程使计算机能够“理解”语言的结构和语音。 ecocn
Having been at it for centuries, generations of Santas and their boffins beneath the Arctic ice are clearly ahead of the curve when it comes to applying advanced scientific theories to sleigh design.
就先进科学理论在雪橇设计上的应用而言，一代又一代的圣诞老人以及他们麾下的诸多达人已经潜心于此几个世纪，因此早已站在了时代前列。 ecocn
Having lots of boffins does not matter, though, if they are not productive.
然而，如果科研人员没有创造性的话，拥有再多也无济于事。 ecocn
Home Office boffins justify the six-year retention of innocents’ DNA with research showing that people who are let off after an arrest are more likely than the general public to be rearrested.
总机构的科研技术人员证明，保留无辜者的 DNA6年的做法是正确的。研究表明，经逮捕后释放的人比一般大众更有可能被再次逮捕。 ecocn
Housing boffins regard negative equity as the best predictor of default, which is why they take loan-to-value ratios very seriously.
住房研究者认为负资产是违约的最好预测指标，这就是为什么他们总是很严肃地对待贷款额/房价比的原因。 ecocn
In February, before passage of the reforms, those same boffins estimated that health costs would rise an average of 6.1% per year over the next decade.
医改法案通过前，在2月，已有科研人员估计：在未来10年内，医疗费用平均每年将增长6.1%。 ecocn
Moreover, untangling cause and effect in studies like these is notoriously tricky. And it does not help that the boffins themselves seem baffled by the results.
此外，理清这种研究报告的原因和结果本身就很棘手，而研究员本身似乎也对结果感到困惑这件事也不起任何帮助。 ecocn
Mr Medvedev also intends to visit Silicon Valley to see if Russia can learn from America’s high-tech boffins how to jump-start its own technology cluster.
梅德韦杰夫还打算参观硅谷，看看俄罗斯能否通过学习美国高科技人员助推本国科技聚集区的发展。 ecocn
Now, it seems, the president's own boffins agree.
现在，似乎，总统先生自己的研究员们开始同意这一点。 ecocn
Statistical boffins point out that recent jumps in consumer prices are due to an acceleration in the imputed cost of home ownership, an artificial figure that is calculated from rental prices.
统计学家指出，最近消费者价格的上涨归结于拥有住房成本由租金价格计算出的人造数据的急剧增加。 ecocn
That was a bad example, only research boffins at universities need to do that crap.
这是一个很坏的做法，只有大学里的研究人员才会去做这种烂事。 open-china
The IMF's boffins have been charged with providing just such analysis.
已经委托国际货币组织的专家们的任务，正是对此进行分析。 url.cn
THERE have been several cases in which well- meaning boffins have introduced a new species to overcome one problem only to create another.
有好几次，善意的研究人员将一新物种引进某地以解决某一问题，不料却引发另外的问题。 ecocn
These issues are well known to the boffins who run the parts of the internet most users never need to know about.
这些问题对运行部分互联网的科研工作者来说是众所周知的，而大多数用户永远不需要知道。 ecocn
They fear being bilked by a cabal of clever boffins, who can insidiously fiddle with the system's software to take advantage of less geeky types.
他们害怕被那些耍阴谋的精明人骗到，这些人可以别有心机地将系统的软件玩弄于股掌之间。 yeeyan
Third, Mr Kaku enlisted expert help from over300 prominent boffins, including a dozen Nobel laureates.
第三，获得包括多位诺奖获得者在内的300多名著名科学家的支持。 ecocn
This is not all the boffins’ fault.
这也不全是科学家们的错。 ecocn
Too much caffeine is linked with heart problems and miscarriages. But coffee can also boost a woman’s sex drive, according to boffins at Southwestern University in the US.
美国西南大学的研究员称，过多的咖啡因会引发心脏疾病和流产。但咖啡也能提高女性的性欲。 cri
Boffins were busily filling in the blanks in the periodic table and probing unknown atomic phenomena like radioactivity and bonding.
科学家们忙于填补元素周期表的空白、探索未知的原子现象如放射性和键合。 ecocn
Boffins are pondering birth control for elephants, including even vasectomies.
研究员正在考虑给大象进行计划生育甚至进行结扎。 ecocn |