n. 措施,办法,量度,尺寸
v. 测量,量
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- Genetically modified mosquitoes could soon be released in the Florida Keys to combat Zika.
- 转基因蚊子可能很快在佛罗里达群岛释放以对抗寨卡。
- NPR reports that county residents approved a measure to allow the company Oxitec to let the bugs loose,but some residents aren't sold.
- NPR报道,县居民批准一项法案允许Oxitec 公司释放蚊子,但有些居民不买账。
- When the modified male pests mate with regular female mosquitoes, their offspring die.
- 当改良的雄性蚊子与普通雌蚊交配时,它们的后代将死亡,
- That reduces the mosquito population. Oxitec's trials in Brazil and a few other countries reported massive success.
- 从而减少蚊子的数量。据报道在巴西和一些其它国家,Oxitec的试验获得巨大成功。
- Some residents worry the modified mosquitoes aren't safe.
- 一些居民担心改良的蚊子不安全。
- And while Zika is in Florida, there haven't been any locally transmitted cases in the Keys.
- 虽然佛罗里达州发现过塞卡,但群岛没有任何本地传播病例。
- Still, officials in the area have given the go-ahead to try the bugs out in some parts of the Keys.
- 不过,该地区的官员已经在佛罗里达群岛一些地方尝试释放蚊子。
- A Key West commissioner said a big part of her job "is to kill mosquitoes and to protect the residents and the county."
- 基韦斯特的一名专员表示,她工作的很大部分是“杀死蚊子,并保护居民和县区”。

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