Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled.

Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.

自从工业化以来，维系这样一个缓慢的文化新陈代谢已经变得相当困难了，丰盛的午餐被压缩成了能够塞进午餐饭盒或者能在小吃摊买到的任何东西。

This chapter could be condensed into a few paragraphs.

这一章可以压缩成几个段落。

Please shorten your composition.

请压缩一下你的作文。

This material compresses well and then expands rapidly.

这种材料便于压缩，张开时速度又快。

The four debates will be compressed into an unprecedentedly short eight-day period

这4场辩论将被压缩到短短8天的时间，这是前所未有的。

The main arguments were compressed into one chapter.

主要的论证被压缩进了一个章节。

The compressed gas is cooled and condenses into a liquid

压缩气体经冷却凝结成液态。

The original speech I had written got boiled down to about ten minutes.

我写的演讲原稿被压缩到了大约十分钟。

We have learnt how to condense serious messages into short, self-contained sentences

我们已经学会了如何把重要的信息压缩成简短独立的句子。

Their cemeteries smile amid numerous flowers and birds.

他们的坟墓在无数的鲜花和鸟儿的飞翔中绽放笑容。

The indoor has the man-made apricot tree which two numerous flowers are in full bloom, is symbolizing "propitiously lucky" .

室内有两棵繁花盛开的人造杏树，象征着“吉祥幸运”。

Cincinni long, with numerous flowers, forming terminal panicles;

蝎尾状聚伞花序长，带有许多花，形成末端圆锥花序；

It is a big bush-like plant with large and numerous flowers in shades of pink, red, purple and white.

它是一种大型的灌木类植物，长有大大地且为数众多的花朵，花色为粉红、红、紫及白。

racemules with very numerous flowers.

小总状花序具非常多的花。

period of leave; holiday; vacation

休假或放假的时期

XX. The acting person in charge during the period of leave should be appointed for all kinds of leaves.

第二十条各类休假，均应指定休假期间代理负责人。

Mr Stewart, a member of an atheist group in Brisbane, has begun a period of leave following a meeting with his employers today.

斯图尔特是布里斯班一个无神论团体的成员。在今天跟他的上司们一起开了会以后，他会离开学校一段时间。

Immediately to the period of leave, it left a number of trivial matters, but I go from here?

立即假期期间，它留下了一些小事，但我何去何从？

For in the springtime flowers come in crowds, and the busy wings of bees jostle each other.

因为在春天繁花盛开，蜜蜂的忙碌的翅翼也彼此摩挤。

Isn't it similar to the tree shedding its flowers in the wind?

生命不正如同这随风而逝的繁花么？