1. Precisely at noon an infinitely powerful computer takes all the data and calculates what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 12.02, then 12.03...
    在正午时分，一个功能巨大的计算机搜集了所有的资料，并算出在每一个点上12：01、12：02、12：03时可能出现的情况。

2. Parents sometimes weaken the process by taking the forms and filling in false and wishful data about their children's habits, especially on the smoking question.
    有时家长会拿走表格，填入不真实的、一厢情愿的数据来反映他们孩子的习惯，特别是在吸烟问题上，这就削弱了这种做法的作用。

3. "...while the data...cannot be held to prove the... (hypothesis), they may go so far as to initiate and encourage experiments and observations by which the truth or fallacy of the views held may be demonstrated, which, either way, will be a step in t
    “……虽然现有的实验数据……无法证明我们的……(假设)，但它们能起到这样的作用，即推动和鼓励科学家去进行实验和观察，以验证我们原有的观点是正确还是错误。不论结论如何，总是代表科学在前进的道路上所走的一步。”

4. Using data collected by scientists over decades, the authors assembled profiles of hundreds of thousands of individuals from almost 2,000 groups.
    作者们用几十年来科学家们收集的数据，汇编成了2,000多个群体中成千上万个个体的数据图。

5. On the other hand, a different doctor who specializes in the study of the skin is unimpressed by the data and questions the methods used in the study.
    而另一方面，另一位专门从事皮肤研究的医生对这些数据不以为然，并对这一研究中所用的方法提出了质疑。

6. Lasers shooting light through glass fiber can transmit 250,000 times as much data as a standard telephone wire, or tens of thousands of paragraphs such as this one every second.
    射过玻璃纤维的激光可以传送高达标准电话线25万倍的数据，或者说，每秒可传送几万段像这样的文字。

7. Whose analysis of the data on exercise and fall prevention appeared last year in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
    他对锻炼与摔跤预防的数据分析去年发表在《美国医药协会学刊》上。

8. Family is, if anything, the link between generations, the center of child rearing and cultural transmission.
    可以说，家庭是联系两代人的纽带，是养育孩子和传递文化的中心。