With surging obesity levels putting increasing strain on public health systems, governments around the world have begun to toy with the idea of taxing sugar as well.

Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children.

研究者也开始更多地关注老年人与子女之间关系的质量而不是两者之间联系的频繁程度。

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable "suborbital" flights — briefer ventures just to the edge of spacers vast darkness.

但最近,多家公司已经开始计划更实惠的"亚轨道"飞行——在广阔黑暗的太空边缘进行更简短的冒险。

In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.

最近几年，很多中等规模的城市开始采取一种中庸之道，将大都市的刺激与机遇和小城市午夜后的静谥相结合。

Since 2013, global scientific bodies have begun to back politics that support increased public access to research.

自2013年以来，全球科学团体已经开始支持那些能够使更多的人使用研究成果的政策。

And some banks have begun to render such new services as issuing guarantees and witness in favor of the foreign investments.

一些银行已开设提供经济担保或证明等新业务，以利于引进外资。

Reservoirs are drying up and farmers have begun to leave their land

水库逐渐干涸，农民开始背井离乡。

It is only fairly recently that historians have begun to investigate the question

只是到最近历史学家才开始探究这个问题。

The authorities have begun to issue ration cards.

当局已经开始发放定量配给卡。

The willow trees have begun to bud.

柳树开始抽芽了。

Already, one or two critics have begun to muddle the two names

一两个评论家已经开始把这两个名字弄混了。

Remove artificial supplements from your diet, and you've made another significant change.

不再食用含有人工添加剂的食物, 也是一种显著的改变.

The BP had no significant change before and after treatment ( P & gt; 0.05 ).

用药前后血压变化不明显 ( P & gt; 0.05 ).

No significant change of the engine response to fuel step was found.

而在一定的不同矢量角作用下,发动机的阶跃响应过程调节参数无明显变化.

Currently, media convergence, world media pattern has been committed and is being further significant change.

当前, 媒介融合的趋势愈演愈烈, 世界传媒格局已经发生并正在进一步发生重大变革.

The move could mark the beginning of a significant change in China's fragmented food-services sector.

中国的饮食服务业历来犹如一盘散沙,不过全聚德的上市标致着这种情况将出现明显改变.

This is a significant change and will facilitate the application of middle managers in big organizations.

这个重大变化将对大企业的中层管理申请者有利.

Significant change must be significantly better.

重大改变必须是非常好的改变.

There has been a significant change in his health.

他的身体状况已经有了很大的改观.

Centre for Documentation and Information, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

中国社会科学院文献情报中心

Institute of Philosophy of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

中国社会科学院哲学研究所