1. The constitution also confers large powers on Brazil's 25 constituent states. 宪法还授予巴西25个成员州极大的权力。
2. Furthermore, the single copy of a founder mutation often confers a survival advantage on carriers. 此外，创始者突变的单一拷贝通常赋予携带者生存优势。
3. By e-mail and earphone, he confers with Jack Parrish, chief meteorologist, and they order the NOAA technician to slip a dropsonde into the shoot. 通过电子邮件和耳机，他与首席气象学家杰克·帕里什协商，他们命令国家海洋和大气管理局的技术人员将探空仪放入拍摄中。
4. The system of patent-granting, which confers temporary monopolies for the exploitation of new technologies, was originally established as an incentive to the pursuit of risky new ideas. 专利授予制度为开发新技术提供了暂时的垄断地位，它最初的建立是为了激励人们追求有风险的新想法。
5. Species interdependence in nature confers many benefits on the species involved, but it can also become a point of weakness when one species involved in the relationship is affected by a catastrophe. 在自然界中，物种的相互依赖给相关物种带来了许多好处，但当其中一个物种受到灾难的影响时，这种依赖也可能成为一个弱点。
