First, they can shut things down without suffering much in the way of consequences.
首先，他们可以关闭某些事物而不会承受太多后果。
They chose this particular behavior for three reasons, according to study co-author Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher at the University of California, Riverside: students’ attitudes on the topic are variable and unstable, behavior is easily measurable, and ethics literature largely agrees that eating less meat is good because it reduces environmental harm and animal suffering.
根据该研究的合著者、加州大学河滨分校的哲学家埃里克·施维茨格尔布（Eric Schwitzgebel）的说法，他们选择这一特定行为有三个原因：学生在这个话题上的态度具有可变性和不稳定性，行为容易被测量，而且伦理学文献普遍认为减少吃肉是好的，因为它能减少环境危害和动物痛苦。
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。