1. The contemporary phenomenon of car worship is to be explained not least by the sense of independence and freedom that ownership entails.
    当前崇拜汽车现象可以用与所有权相伴的独立和自由意识来解释。

2. To understand this phenomenon we must look at our society's insistence that women are only valuable when they are attractive and useful to men.
    为了弄清这个现象，我们必须看到这个社会一直坚持认为女性只有能吸引男人，对男人有用时才有她们自身的价值。

3. There is a leisure boom in Japan, and like many national trends here it is largely a government-led phenomenon.
    日本掀起了休闲热，就像这里的很多全国性潮流一样，这也是在政府倡导下出现的。

4. Athletes in high-impact sports such as running may also lose iron through a phenomenon where small blood vessels in the feet leak blood.
    运动员从事高度剧烈的运动，比如跑步时，也可能会因为足部细血管失血的现象而使铁质流失。

5. "But I believe that all the answers lie in human error, mechanical problems, strange atmospheric events, or unusual magnetic phenomenon."
    "但是我相信，所有的答案都归于人为失误、机械故障、怪异的大气活动或者异常的磁场现象。"

6. Yet, political activity among Kenyan women is not a new phenomenon.
    然而，肯尼亚妇女从事政治活动并不是什么新现象。

7. Out where there is no air, this phenomenon does not take place.
    在那遥远没有空气的地方, 不发生这种现象.

8. It also provides----and some student sociologist might care to base his thesis upon the phenomenon----an escape of another kind.
    学社会学的大学生来露营是另一种形式的摆脱现实，他们的目的很可能是根据观察到的露营现象去写论文。