Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.
在过去十年中，数千项专利被授予了一些被称为商业方法的发明。
Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.
基于这一关于人际影响的基本事实，研究人员通过进行数千次计算机模拟，研究了社会影响的动态过程，并操控了与人们影响他人能力及其容易被影响倾向相关的一些变量。
In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.
在威斯康星州，工会已经动员了数千名支持者反对强硬派共和党州长斯科特·沃克。
Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.
从更广阔的视角来看我们这个物种在宇宙中的位置，就会清楚地认识到，我们有很好的机会生存数万年，甚至可能长达数十万年。
For example, the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.
例如，Long Now 基金会将其旗舰项目定为一座机械钟，它被设计为在数千年后仍能继续计时。
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。