考研Building on the 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.

在人际影响基本原理的基础上，研究人员通过对人群进行数千次计算机模拟，操纵与人们影响他人的能力及其受影响倾向相关的变量，研究了社会影响的动态。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研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 influen

基于这一关于人际影响的基本事实，研究人员通过对人群进行数千次计算机模拟，操纵与人们影响能力相关的许多变量，研究了社会影响的动态

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级What we have to do is make sure we know what these are and take into account all the possible variables

我们要做的是确保我们知道这些是什么，并考虑到所有可能的变量

2013年6月听力原文

六级The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

研究人员还承认，在科学研究中，种族作为一种结构可能在一些领域仍然有用：作为一种政治和社会变量，而不是生物学变量。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级I suspect that some experts in the field will be keen to address alternative explanations, such as unassessed variables playing a role in the well-being decline.

我怀疑该领域的一些专家会热衷于解决其他解释，比如在幸福感下降中起作用的未评估变量。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级a basis for explaining human genetic diversityan aid to understanding different populationsan explanation for social and cultural differencesa term to describe individual human characteristicsmodern genetics research is likely to fuel racial conflictsrace is a poorly defined marker of human genetic diversityrace as a biological term can explain human genetic diversitygenetics research should consider social and cultural variablesit is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosisit is important to include social variables in genetics researchracial categories for genetic diversity could lead to wrong clinical predictionsdiscrimination against black people may cause negligence in clinical treatmentThey be more precise with the language they use.

解释人类遗传多样性的基础有助于理解不同的人群解释社会和文化差异描述人类个体特征的术语现代遗传学研究可能助长种族冲突种族是人类遗传多样性的一个定义不清的标记种族作为一个生物学术语可以解释人类遗传多样性遗传学研究应考虑到社会和文化的差异，在诊断中必须将种族放在一边，在遗传学中包含社会变量是很重要的。研究遗传类别的遗传多样性可能导致错误的临床预测。临床治疗中的疏忽他们使用的语言更加精确。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

尽管有大量证据表明，教师的素质是最重要的变量，但教师工会一直在反对淘汰劣质教师和推广优秀教师。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers'unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

尽管有大量证据表明，教师的素质是最重要的变量，但教师工会一直在反对淘汰劣质教师和推广优秀教师。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级They examine all possible variables in their research.

他们检查研究中所有可能的变量。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Mandelbrot, who did the experiment with stock exchanges prices, for example, noted that although the outcomes were variable, there were in fact certain constancy

例如，对证券交易所价格进行实验的曼德布罗特指出，尽管结果是可变的，但事实上有一定的恒常性

2013年6月听力原文

六级first, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting well-being, then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in well-being.

首先，他们解释说，如果给定变量在影响幸福感方面发挥作用，那么我们应该期望该变量的任何变化都与观察到的幸福感变化相关。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

那么，如果种族概念被抛弃，还有什么其他变量可以使用呢？尤德尔说，科学家需要更具体地使用他们的语言，也许可以使用诸如祖先或人口之类的术语，以便在个人和人口层面上更准确地反映人类与其基因之间的关系。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared.

但当研究人员加入一些其他变量时，这种差异就消失了。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out?

那么，如果种族概念被抛弃，还有什么其他变量可以使用呢？

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级These prior efforts all examined the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location.

这些先前的研究都考察了不同的环境、社会和地理变量在多大程度上与在给定地点发现的许多语言相关。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级If not, it is not plausible that the variable is a causal factor.

如果不是，则该变量不可能是因果因素。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级And at the vast majority of places, it is simply not a big variable in the college’s decision-making process.

在绝大多数地方，这并不是学院决策过程中的一个大变量。

2013年12月六级考试真题（三）

六级a basis for explaining human genetic diversity an aid to understanding different populations an explanation for social and cultural differences a term to describe individual human characteristics The example of the disease cystic fibrosis underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry demonstrates that it is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosis it is important to include social variables in genetics research.

解释人类遗传多样性的基础

2016年12月六级（第三套）真题

四级Variables included the slope of the land, the ability of the pavement to support the load, the intensity of road use, and the nature of the underlying soil.

变量包括土地的坡度、路面支撑荷载的能力、道路使用强度和下层土壤的性质。

2006年6月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

考研One possibility is the variable behavior of the sun.

一种可能性是太阳的多变行为。

1992年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The sun is also variable over a long term: its heat output goes up and down in cycles, the latest trend being downward.

太阳在长期内也是可变的：其热量输出呈周期性上升和下降，最近的趋势是下降。

1992年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研And there are long, variable lags before policy changes have any effect on the economy.

在政策变化对经济产生任何影响之前，还有很长的可变滞后期。

1997年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题