The search for a wonder drug to cure obesity clearly wasn't at an end.對治療肥胖的神奇藥物所進行的探索,無疑并沒有就此結束
at an end:結束
Our hunt for a house is at last at an end.
我們找房子的事情終于有了結果。
They wished the voyage at an end.
他們渴望航行結束。
They didn't examine fat people,but concentrated on thin ones instead.他們沒有去調查肥胖人群而是把注意力集中在瘦人身上
concentrate on:集中于; 專心于
It's too hot to concentrate on book.
熱得不能集中心思看書。
I can't concentrate on my work when I'm tired.
我累了就無法集中精力工作。
concentrate,focus這兩個動詞均有“集中,聚集”之意。
concentrate指把人或物集中在一起,也可指把精力或注意力集中于某一事物上。
focus側重指把光、熱、射線等集中于一點,也可指把思想或精力等集中于某人或某事情上。
And in order to study that,he needed to take a group of people and make them fat. 為了進行這項研究他需要選擇一組人并把他們變胖
in order to:為了
We started early in order to arrive before dark.
為了在天黑前到達,我們很早就動身了。
We learn a language in order to communicate.
我們學習語言是為了交流思想。
a group of:一組; 一群; 一伙
We came up with a group of tourists.
我們趕上了一群旅游者。