fraction 数学比例-分数的意思,指占整体比例,如1/4,3/5等。比如一块披萨被分成8份,每一块就是:a part of the pizza, one eighth 1/8 即是一个fraction
fraction后来也可引申为:很少的一部分,比例很小的一部分
Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body-although briefly-for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking what some researchers say is an early step toward a major, long-hoped-for medical breakthrough.