Similarly, some Wall Street investment firms armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.
同样，一些华尔街投资公司通过拥有金融产品的专利来武装自己，即使他们在法庭上反对这种做法的案件中持有立场。
To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.
为了鼓励创新和竞争，报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程体系以提升学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对教师的资金支持，并鼓励学者将所学知识应用于当今的重大挑战。
So they compared U.S. cities’ average happiness 6 by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.
因此他们将美国城市居民的平均幸福感6通过盖洛普民意调查与这些地区上市公司的投资活动进行比较。
7 enough, firms’ investment and R&D intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were 8 .
7 足够，企业的投资和研发强度与他们所在的地区的幸福指数相关。
But is it really happiness that’s linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities 9 why firms there spend more on R&D?
但真正与投资相关的是幸福，还是更幸福的城市中存在其他因素导致这些公司更愿意在研发上投入更多资金？
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。