OG上几个词和几句话，大家讨论

junarry

176.
the ground-breaking work
什么意思

177.
As ...as...,.... 在句首是什么意思？
如：As ill-prepared as they are, they nevertheless find good jobs

190.
In the first period of religious reformism, Islamic political militancy was manifested in the rise of the Wahhabis in Arabia, the Sanusi in Cyrenaica, the Fulani in Nigeria, and the Mahdi in the Sudan, and in the victory of the Usuli “mujtahids” in Shiite Iran and Iraq.
翻译一下，特别是两个层次的并列 in the victory of... 而不用 the victory of...

204.
In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers  and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.
请翻译一下？特别是partly to...

208.
Teratomas are unusual forms of cancer （in that they are composed of tissues such as tooth and bone, tissues ）not normally found in the organ in which the tumor appears.
请翻译句子，in that =becouse 是吗？

209.
and in B the statement (hiring illegal aliens would be a penalty) makes no sense.
make no sense 是啥意思？