They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research.
它们可能会巩固以同行评审为主导的研究现状。
And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer - Congress - insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.
从邮政工会到贺卡制造商的各种利益集团，都对美国邮政服务局的最终监管者——国会——施加着出于自身利益的压力，坚持要求无论邮政服务发生什么变化，他们所依赖的现状某些方面必须得到保护。
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。