Instead of casting a wistful glance vackward at sll species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real cost of our own intelligence might be.
翻译：这个问题并不是让我们向在IQ测试上远落后于我们的物种投以伤感的目光，而是含蓄地问道：我们拥有智力地真正代价是什么。
The scores were then used in conjunction with an applicant's score on the Graduate Management Adimission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is marked out of 800 points, to make a dicision on whether to accept him or her.
in conjunction with引导方式状语
翻译：这个分数会与申请人的GMAT——一个满分为800的标准化考试——中的得分结合起来，作用决定申请人能否录取。
Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet "some Americans fear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation's assimilative power."
note n.笔记，记录，注释v.注意，留意，指出，特别提到
翻译：R指出，全世界偏远山区的孩子都是AS和GB这样的的超级巨星的粉丝，但是“一些美国人却担心，居住在美国境内的移民不受国家同化力的影响”。