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And although one CD looks much like another, music is a gloriously “differentiated” product, so firms cannot infer what their rivals are doing from their own sales data.
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虽然每个CD看起来都很相似，但里面的音乐却是华丽的“差异性”产品，所以唱片公司从自己的销售数据上无法推断他们对手的做法。 |
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And although preliminary experimental evidence suggests that their in-air vision is poor, the accuracy with which dolphins leap high to take small fish out of a trainer's hand provides anecdotal evidence to the contrary.
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尽管初步的试验表明他们在空气中的视力相当的弱，但鲸鱼跳起来准确的吃到训练者手中提供的小鱼为反面提供了有意思的证据。 |
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And although progress seems to be slow at times, hindsight has shown that everything has happened in the right divine time.
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尽管进展看上去非常缓慢，后见之明表明每件事都刚好在神圣的时间发生。 |
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And although some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to enforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during flights.
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尽管有些航空公司禁止乘客在飞机起飞和降落时使用这类物品，大多数航空公司由于考虑到很多乘客想在飞行过程中工作而不愿意实行全程禁止。 |
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And although the Americans could bomb the North's reactors, they do not seem to know where the regime hides its fissile materials and any bombs it has made from them.
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尽管美国可以炸毁朝鲜的核反应堆，但是它似乎并不清楚朝鲜把导弹原料和其制造的炸弹藏在什么地方。 |
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And although the Tour de France is not, strictly, an American sport, the mounting evidence that doping is rife in it can only taint the Americans who have won it in the past.
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很多证据表明，美国人在环法自行车赛中----严格而言，在美国上此项赛事并不算一项体育项目---取胜与兴奋剂脱不了干系。 |
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And although the U.S. auto industry has cut exhaust emissions substantially since the unregulated 1960s—hydrocarbons dropped by 99 percent, carbon monoxide by 96 percent and nitrogen oxides by 95 percent—the continued production of carbon dioxide causes c
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从毫无法规管制的1960年代至今，虽然美国汽车业界已经大幅减少排放的废气（碳氢化合物降低了99%，一氧化碳降低了96%，氮氧化物降低了95%），但持续产生的二氧化碳仍是个问题，因为它可能影响地球的气候。 |
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And although the brain mechanisms behind hysterical illness are still not fully understood, new studies have started to bring the mind back into the body, by identifying the physical evidence of one of the most elusive, controversial and enduring illnesse
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尽管产生癔病的大脑功能变化机制尚未完全明了，但目前的研究通过寻找这一种最难懂、矛盾而持久的疾病的物证，开始从身体的变化来探索精神的异常。 |
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And although the chronology of the tits has not changed with this warming, that of winter moth caterpillars—which (along with other less abundant species) tits feed their chicks—has [see illustration on page 89].
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尽管白颊山雀的步调并没有随著暖化而改变，但牠们用来喂养雏鸟的冬季蛾类毛虫（以及其他数量较少的物种）习性却已改变（见93页图）。 |
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And although the depreciation in the yuan's real trade-weighted value since 2002 looks perverse, this follows a real appreciation of 50% between 1994 and 2001 (see chart 1).
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而尽管自从2002年以来，人民币的实际贸易加权值一直降低，这看起来是故意作对，但是这是因袭1994至2001年的实际上50%的增值。 |
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And although the emerging field of functional genomics had just begun to link genes to their protein products, most techniques stopped short of defining metabolic pathways.
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尽管日渐崛起的「功能性基因组学」这个领域，不久前已开始找寻各种基因所对应的蛋白质，但由于科学家对植物的代谢途径缺乏确切的了解，硬是让许多技术碰了壁。 |
