The researchers who investigated this phenomenon were inspired by the BP chairman's comment after the oil spill about the "small people." There are many such metaphors-think "big man on campus." Could these metaphors influence-or reflect-reality?

Loc Tran is a big man on campus at San Jose State University in Northern California.

洛克·陈（Loc Tran）是北加州圣何塞州立大学（San Jose State University in Northern California）校园里的名人。

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you're gonna tell the whole world that there's a new big man on campus!

你就要去告诉全世界谁才是新的校园霸主！

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Usually the big man on campus is much sought by girl students.

校园里的风头人物往往受到女学生的大力追求。

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Make China dependent on trade with the west then when they seem to be getting too powerful pull out a big gun.

让中国在贸易商依赖西方世界，当中国快要变得过于强大时，就拔出枪（威吓中国）。

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Justin is a big gun.

贾斯汀是一种长枪的牌子。

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" I want a big gun," replied Gavroche.

“我要那支步枪。”伽弗洛什回答。

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Maybe the guy who's coming is a big gun.

说不定这家伙是个大人物呢。

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Based on a case study of the Watt linkage, the bifurcation equation with angle variables has been established in complex number field.

以瓦特六杆机构为例，在复数域内建立了以角度为变量的复数形式机构分叉分析方程。

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In particular, arterial phase CT scan can be a good internal and external carotid artery bifurcation angle of observation changes, to determine the relationship between the tumor and the carotid artery.

特别是CT扫描动脉期可以很好地观察颈内外动脉分叉角度的变化，判断肿瘤与颈动脉的关系。

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In empirical formula is presented for the calculation of the bifurcation discharge ratio with the effect of the river training works taken into consideration.

根据试验结果，文中还提出了本河段整治后分流比计算的经验公式。

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The results indicate that: ( 1) Bifurcation ratio is positively related with the tree size and it is negatively related with the stand density. For the suppressed trees in stand, the bifurcation ratio does more affect from the stand density.

研究结果表明：（1）分枝率与林木的大小呈正相关，与林分密度呈负相关，且林分中生长水平越差的林木的分枝率受到林分密度的影响越大。

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In the plot of vegetation removal, the high individual density caused the higher bifurcation ratio, the larger branch angle to horizon, longer branch length and narrow crown, which benefited growing fast and increasing competitiveness for light.

在清除植被的干扰样地中，由于高的植株密度使得树种形成较高的分枝率、大枝倾角、长枝条、窄小的树冠，以快速生长而摆脱受压状态。

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Hydrology has obvious characteristics of the upper reaches of the Yangtze, water density, bifurcation ratio, bend coefficient and fractural have close relationship with regional structure, Neotectonics and seismic.

水文具有长江上游的典型特征，河网密度、分歧率、弯曲系数及分维均与区域构造、新构造运动和地震成正相关关系。土壤具有岩性差异背景及垂直谱带性。

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The Extended System of Simple Bifurcation Point of the Navier-Stokes Equations

Navier-Stokes方程简单分歧点的扩充系统

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Numerical algorithm for determining Hopf bifurcation point of nonlinear system

确定非线性系统Hopf分岔点的数值方法

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A Direct Method for Computing Hopf Bifurcation Point in Power System Dynamic Voltage Stability

以简化直接法求解电力系统动态电压稳定Hopf分岔点

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The extended systems for computing simple high order bifurcation point are constructed.

构造了计算简单高阶分歧点的扩充系统。

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A new computation method for saddle-node bifurcation point of power system

一种新的电力系统鞍型分叉点计算方法

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The point at which branching of the graph occurs is called a bifurcation point and corresponds to a critical value of the load.

图上发生分叉处的点叫分支点，它相当于荷载的临界值。

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A Numerical Method for Hopf Bifurcation Point in Ordinary Differential Equations

关于常微分方程Hopf分支点的一种数值计算方法

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