A recent paper, titled "The Natural Selection of Bad Science", published on the Royal Society's open science website, attempts to answer this intriguing and important question.

最近发表在英国皇家学会开放科学网站上的一篇题为《烂科学的自然选择》的论文，试图回答这个有趣而重要的问题。

When I handed in my paper, I was afraid that I might fail because I did not answer the questions.

当我交论文的时候，我担心我可能会不及格，因为我没有回答问题。

Write your problem or question on a piece of paper in such a fashion that "yes" or "no" could be the answer.

在一张纸上写下你的问题，这个问题应该是可以直接用“是”或“否”来回答的。

Start your journey by committing your goal to paper and making a list of questions you will need to answer to accomplish your objective.

把你的目标描绘在纸上，并列出完成目标需要回答的一些问题，以此作为你这段旅程的开始。

They've even set up website to solicit views by means of a survey. To take part, simply read their paper and answer their questions.

他们甚至建立了一个网页，通过民意调查的方式来收集意见。简单的阅读论文并回答一些问题，就可以参与调查。

Their answer, according to a new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, is simple: numeracy.

根据他们最近为亚特兰大联邦储蓄银行做的一份工作论文显示，答案很简单：识数能力。

Describe your situation and your problem briefly. Find a pad of paper or a journal book and answer the following questions: How is your situation exactly?

简要描述你目前的状况和问题。找一个便签本或者日记本，回答如下问题：你目前的情况准确来说是怎样的？

Well, the straightforward answer is a piece of paper had parts, and in breaking it, in ripping it, what I literally did was I ripped one part from another.

直截了当的答案是，一张纸是有部分的，破坏它，撕裂它，我做的就是把它撕成了，一个个部分。

His answer, in a 2005 paper: "the majority." From clinical trials of new drugs to cutting-edge genetics, biomedical research is riddled with incorrect findings, he argued.

他的回答写在2005年的一篇题目为“多数”的论文中，其论点是：从新药的临床实验到前沿的遗传学研究，生物医学的研究中充满了错误结论。

They worked outthat if each entry in the matrix were written on paper that was one inchsquare, the answer would cover an area the size of Manhattan.

他们发现，如果把矩阵的每一项都写在一平方英尺纸上的话，整个计算结果足可以覆盖曼哈顿大小的地方。

During the test candidates read the questions for section one. They then listen to the first section and answer the questions on the question paper as they listen.

在考试时磁带会提示先让考生阅读第一部分的问题，然后开始听第一部分的内容并答题。

We’re testing that now (the cheap paper goggles are MRI-safe) and will have an answer in a few days.

我们现在正对此进行测试（便宜的纸眼镜用在MRI中是安全的），会在几天内得出结论。

And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, which lay in the middle of the table: "the bobbies are here."

他还没有来得及回答，她已在桌子中间的一张纸上写了“雷子来了”这几个字。

When the game asked Caleb Deng what 5 + (6 x 3) was equal to, he quickly jotted down calculations on scrap paper before choosing the correct answer.

当游戏问到Caleb Deng 5 + (6 x 3)的结果是多少时，他快速的在算草纸上写下计算过程并选择了正确答案。

Drop the needles on the paper and calculate the percentage that fall on a line. With enough attempts, the answer should be the needle length divided by the width between lines, all multiplied by 2/pi.

将针随便丢在纸上，然后计算出落在线上的针的百分比，随着尝试次数的足够多，最终这个百分比将越来越逼近针的长度除以格子的宽度再乘以2/pi。

RICHARD: I think I failed the French paper. I could answer sixteen of the questions.

理查德：我想我的法语及不了格，我能回答其中的16道题。

A new paper* by òscar Jordà and Alan Taylor of the University of California, Davis, may have the answer.

一项由加利福尼亚大学的òscar Jordà 和 Alan Taylor发表的新研究报告可能会回答这个问题。

In the Writing paper what happens if I write the answer for Task 1 on the page for Task 2?

在写作的作文纸上，如果我把第一题错写在第二题的位置怎么办？

But I can't find an answer to this one in the paper.

但我在论文中没有找到这一问题的答案。

The answer proposed by Dr Kim and Dr Weitz, in a paper in Angewandte Chemie, is to change the way e-ink is manufactured.

基姆和韦茨博士在《应用化学》上发表的论文中提出的答案，将会改变电子油墨的制造方式。

Your paper is an attempt to write a well-organized answer to whatever question you decide upon, using facts for the purpose of proving (or at least supporting) your contention.

你的论文要试图写出一个条理清晰的答案来回答你所选定的任意问题。 这个过程中，你可以通过运用事实来验证或至少来支持你的论文内容。

This paper attempts an answer.

这篇文章要找这问题的答案。

According to a new discussion paper by a group of academics and policy activists, the answer is a form of stage management.

根据一组学者和政策活动家最新发布的讨论文件，对上述问题给出的答案是采用某种类似于舞台监督那样精雕细琢，注重细节的工作方法。

When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement step and went inside to answer the phone.

当电话铃响的时候，宿管把厚纸板放在身后的水泥台阶上，进到里屋去接电话。

After conducting your Ethnographic research, what is your answer? What will your paper be trying to say?

进行人种学研究后，你的答案是什么？将您的文件有什么想说的吗？

I put my answer in a piece of paper and my friend told me.

我把答案写在纸上，然后朋友告诉我。

If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer.

如果游客能解开灯谜，他们就能将纸条拿去灯笼的主人那里检查他们的答案是否正确。