The Federal Circuit's action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.
联邦巡回法院的这一行动是在最高法院一系列最近的裁决之后发生的，这些裁决已经缩小了对专利持有人的保护范围。
But the Nobel Foundation's limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research - as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson.
但诺贝尔基金会规定每个奖项最多只能有三位获奖者，且每位获奖者都必须仍然在世，这一限制早已无法适应现代研究的协作性质——这一点在承认希格斯玻色子发现时不可避免地引发争议时将得到证明。
popularity usually comes after quality
质量通常先于受欢迎程度出现
comes across as reliable evidence.
显得是可靠证据。
“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.
Gary Eberle在《Sacred Time》一书中写道：未来像空瓶子一样沿着一条无法停止且几乎无限的传送带向我们涌来，我们感受到一种压力，必须在它们经过时填满这些不同大小的瓶子（天、小时、分钟），因为如果它们未被填满而通过，我们就会浪费了它们。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。