In many respects, the u.s. was more socially tolerant entering this recession than at any time in its history, and a variety of national polls on social conflict since then have shown mixed results.
在很多方面，美国在进入这次经济衰退时比历史上任何时期都更加社会包容，此后关于社会冲突的各种全国性民意调查结果也呈现出混杂的局面。
After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top positions – no matter how much “soft pressure” is put upon them.
毕竟，四十年来的证据表明，欧洲和美国的企业都在逃避按才能招聘和晋升女性到高层职位的做法——无论对它们施加了多少“软性压力”。
Teachers, employers, and health professionals have been shown to harbor biases against the obese.
研究表明，教师、雇主和健康专业人士对肥胖者存在偏见。
Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the “above average effect”, or “illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others – all obviously statistical impossibilities.
社会心理学家已经积累了大量关于他们称之为“高于平均水平效应”或“虚假优越感”的研究，并证明例如，70%的人认为自己在领导力方面高于平均水平，93%的人认为自己在驾驶方面高于平均水平，85%的人认为自己在与他人相处方面高于平均水平——显然这些都是统计上的不可能现象。
For one 5, each participant was shown a pile of pens that the researcher claimed were from a previous experiment.
对于第 5 题中的某一项，每个参与者都被展示了一堆笔，研究者声称这些笔来自之前的实验。
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。