A musician was expected to play complicated pieces of music pretty much without any preparation.
人们期望音乐家在没有任何准备的情况下演奏许多复杂的音乐。
Today's top violin makers can pretty much replicate all the physical attributes of a Cremonese violin.
今天的顶级小提琴制造商几乎可以复制克雷莫纳小提琴的所有物理属性。
It seems that pretty much everyone else in the class gets what they are supposed to be doing but I'm not so sure.
似乎班上几乎每个人都懂了他们应该做什么，但我却不那么确定。
I am not talking about requiring people to learn English or to adopt American ways; those things happen pretty much on their own.
我不是在要求人们学习英语或采用美国的方式；这些事情几乎都是自发的。
The country has pretty much defeated the boll weevil, and the Department of Agriculture individually tests every bale on obscure measures.
这个国家几乎已经打败了棉铃象鼻虫，农业部对每包棉铃都用复杂难懂的方法进行了单独的测试。
That leaves American retailers pretty much alone the world over in relying on magstripe technology to charge purchases—and leaves consumers vulnerable.
这使得美国零售商依赖于磁条技术来收取购买费用，这几乎是全球范围内少有的——这也使得消费者很容易受到伤害。
As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, "Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measures."
正如《新英格兰医学杂志》里一篇报告所总结的，“如今卫生政策文献中几乎所有的创新提议都包含于这些措施中。”
It is utterly confusing to me that people do not recognize this, despite the fact that pretty much anyone who has been a student can tell the difference between their best and worst teachers.
让我感到非常困惑的是，人们没有意识到这一点，尽管几乎所有学生都能分辨出哪些是最好的老师，哪些是最差的老师。
I think what I put in that book is now pretty much the agenda for this country.
我认为我在那本书里写的正是该国目前亟待解决的问题。
She had known Max for some years now, but he was still pretty much an unknown quantity.
她现在认识马克斯也好几年了，但是他仍然是个大大的未知数。
I have lost a total of 19 pounds and have been pretty much in a holding pattern for the past three to four weeks.
我的体重共减少了19磅，过去三四周没什么变化。
Though your identity is always changing, some of your personality will stay pretty much the same.
虽然你的身份一直在改变，但你的一些个性会保持不变。
As for the money, it's nothing compared to what the big actors make, but it pretty much pays the bills.
至于片酬，与大牌演员的片酬相比微不足道，但它也足以支付账单了。
Who knew that crocodiles worked pretty much like cassette tapes?
谁会想到鳄鱼的行为和盒式磁带的工作原理这么相像呢？
Pretty much all of what we know about the Botai comes from three archaeological sites.
我们对博泰人的了解基本来自于三个考古遗址。
I am stopping by to reserve a place for my school club that meet and work, pretty much on a regular basis.
我顺便来这儿为我在学校的俱乐部预订一个地方，从而让我们基本能够定期见面和工作。
Which is great in itself but also means that my "muffin top" is pretty much gone when I wear my favorite jeans.
这是很棒的，但同时也意味着当我穿上最喜欢的牛仔裤时，我的“腰部赘肉”已消失。
That kind of thinking is a mistake, because when the dust settles, people are going to be pretty much what they are.
这种想法是错误的，因为当尘埃落定时，人们还会是他们以前的样子。
The stethoscope is older than the x-ray, the ballpoint pen, Popular Science and pretty much everything else in your doctor's office.
听诊器比X 射线、圆珠笔、《大众科学》以及你医生诊所里绝大部分物件还要古老。
When somebody invented the automobile, before you knew it, everyone was driving automobiles and they all looked pretty much the same.
有人发明了汽车，不知不觉，每个人都开上汽车了，而且那些汽车外形看起来都差不多。
The thing is, each major movie company pretty much had only one orchestra for all their productions, a set number of regular musicians.
事实是，每个大型电影公司都只有一个乐团来演奏他们的所有作品，也有一些是常规演奏的音乐家。
But, there's a type of rapid expansion, what might be called the hysterical or irrational boom that pretty much always leads to a bust.
然而，确实存在一种剧烈的行业扩张，被称为超速或非理性繁荣，它通常以产业泡沫破裂而终结。
At work, people pretty much know what they're supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.
在工作中，人们很清楚他们应该做什么：工作，赚钱，为了获得收入而做他们必须做的事情。
It seems that, by looking at the length of the telomeres on specific Chromosomes, we can actually predict pretty much how long certain cells can successfully go on dividing.
看起来，当通过观察特定染色体上的端粒长度，我们实际上可以预测某些细胞能够成功分裂多久。
"In the general population today, at this genetic, environmental level, we've pretty much gone as far as we can go," says anthropologist William Cameron Chumlea of Wright State University.
莱特州立大学的人类学家威廉·卡梅伦·楚姆利说：“在今天的一般人群中，在这种遗传和环境水平下，我们已经走到了我们力所能及的程度。”
Sometimes I do, but I've got it pretty much memorized.
我有时带，不过现在差不多都背下来了。
Jennifer: Well, pretty much since I returned from India.
珍妮弗：嗯，大概是我从印度回来后开始的。
No, pretty much things are either reversible or irreversible.
不，几乎所有的都是要么可逆，要么不可逆。
That's pretty much it for server authentication using SSL.
对于使用SSL的服务器身份验证来说更是如此。
This attitude seems to be pretty much universal among teenagers.
这种态度在青少年十分普遍。
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