英语六级真题中 whereas 引导的从句

Ask a man and a woman to go diving for the first time, and the woman is likely to jump in, while the man is likely to say he's not feeling too well.

让一名男性和一名女性第一次去潜水，女性可能会跳下去，而男性可能会说他感觉不太舒服。

"People who are susceptible to decision fatigue will likely choose to do nothing over something," he says, "That's not to say that risk is always good, but it is related to taking action whereas decision fatigue assuredly leads to inaction and the possible chagrin(懊恼) of a decision maker who might otherwise prefer a new course but is unfortunately hindered."

"易受决策疲劳影响的人很可能会选择什么都不做而不是做些什么，"他说，"这并不是说风险总是好的，但它与采取行动有关，而决策疲劳无疑会导致不作为，以及决策者可能的懊恼，否则他们可能更喜欢新的行动方案，但不幸的是受到了阻碍。"

In essence, sarcasm is easy while true, harmless wit takes talent.

本质上，讽刺很容易，而真实、无害的机智则需要天赋。

"If they're alive today, you can put them in scanning rigs, you can get every detail of their body analysed very carefully and that makes it much easier, whereas working from available photographs is tricky," says Webber, who won an Academy Award for his visual effects work on the 2013 film Gravity.

“如果它们今天还活着，你可以将它们放入扫描设备中，你可以非常仔细地分析它们身体的每一个细节，这会使其容易得多，然而从现有照片进行工作则很棘手，”韦伯说道，他凭借2013年电影《地心引力》的视觉效果工作获得了一项奥斯卡奖。

The data was slightly complicated by the fact that there was a tendency for kids who were social in the real world to also use more online communication, but by bracketing out different cases it became clear that the real-world sociality component correlated with greater wellbeing, whereas greater time on screens or online only correlated with poorer wellbeing.

数据因这样一个事实而略显复杂：现实世界中善于社交的孩子也倾向于使用更多的在线交流，但通过排除不同情况后，很明显现实世界的社交成分与更高的幸福感相关，而更多的屏幕时间或在线时间只与更低的幸福感相关。

Across the developed world, car use is in decline as more people move to city centres, while young people especially are opting for other means of travel.

在发达世界，随着更多人搬到市中心，汽车使用量正在下降，而年轻人尤其在选择其他旅行方式。

Whereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.

鉴于地方性合作有时因社会或学术义务而持续到超出有用性的程度，国际性合作则能更自由地被培育和终止。

In Europe, only Germany proved industrially capable, while in Russia and in Japan the development of the cinema took place in conditions of commercial isolation.

在欧洲，只有德国被证明具有工业能力，而在俄罗斯和日本，电影的发展是在商业隔离的条件下发生的。

Tens of thousands of rural women, paid according to the amount they produced, fabricated the uppers of shoes, which were bound to the soles by skilled shoemakers in dozens of Massachusetts towns, whereas previously skilled shoemakers would have made the entire shoe.

成千上万的农村妇女，根据她们的产量获得报酬，制作鞋帮，这些鞋帮由马萨诸塞州数十个城镇的熟练鞋匠装订到鞋底上，而以前熟练的鞋匠会制作整双鞋。

For example, in Romania, the average amount of personal space people said they would prefer from a stranger was more than 4 feet, whereas in Argentina it was roughly half that.

例如，在罗马尼亚，人们表示自己希望与陌生人保持的个人空间平均超过 4 英尺，而在阿根廷，这一距离大约只有一半。

We create and surround ourselves with things that have never existed before, while animals do not.

我们创造并让自己被以前从未存在过的事物所围绕，而动物不会这样做。

For Africans its consequences will be particularly bitter: whereas other regions were able to grow rich by burning coal and oil, Africa will pay much of the human price without having enjoyed the benefits.

对非洲人来说，其后果将尤其严重：其他地区能够通过燃烧煤炭和石油致富，而非洲将在没有享受到好处的情况下付出大部分人力代价。

Asian women prefer to avoid the sun, because being pale or white is considered beautiful whereas a tanned complexion is considered much more beautiful and sexy in the West.

亚洲女性喜欢避免日晒，因为肤色苍白或白皙被认为是美丽的，而在西方，晒黑的肤色被认为更美丽和性感。

But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing—18,434 centenarians died in 2000, whereas 25,914 died in 2014.

但是因为这一人口群体正在扩大，该群体的死亡人数也在增加——2000年有18434位百岁老人死亡，而2014年有25914位死亡。

While many countries use the smarter EMV cards, the U.S. still clings to its old magstripe technology.

当许多国家使用更智能的EMV卡时，美国仍然坚持使用其旧的磁条技术。

Some people can drink it at midnight and go straight to sleep, whereas others get feelings of anxiety after a small amount.

有些人可以在午夜喝它然后直接去睡觉，而其他人在少量饮用后会感到焦虑。

He says his hypothesis is that the Egyptians laid out their design on a grid, noting that the Great Pyramid is oriented only slightly away from the cardinal directions (its north-south axis runs 3 minutes 54 seconds west of due north, while its east-west axis runs 3 minutes 51 seconds north of due east)—an amount that's "tiny, but similar," archeologist Atlas Obscura points out.

他说他的假设是埃及人在网格上规划了他们的设计，并指出大金字塔的朝向仅略微偏离基本方向（其南北轴线向西偏离正北3分54秒，而东西轴线向北偏离正东3分51秒）——考古学家阿特拉斯·奥布图拉指出，这个偏差量“很小，但相似”。

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

煤炭和天然气主要用于发电，而石油主要用于为交通运输提供动力，但所有这些能源的价格都是相互关联的。

While American credit cards use the 40-year-old magstripe technology to process transactions, much of the rest of the world uses smarter cards with a technology called EMV (short for Europay, MasterCard, Visa) that employs a chip embedded in the card plus a customer PIN (personal identification number) to authenticate(验证) every transaction on the spot.

虽然美国信用卡使用有40年历史的磁条技术来处理交易，但世界其他大部分地区使用更智能的卡片，这种卡片带有称为EMV（即 Europay、万事达卡、维萨卡的缩写）的技术，该技术采用嵌入在卡片中的芯片加上客户个人识别码（PIN）来当场验证每一笔交易。