四级Michael Soupios suggests that we should stop and think carefully about our priorities in lifeAncient philosophers strongly advise that we do good.

迈克尔·苏皮奥斯建议我们应该停下来仔细思考我们生活中的优先事项古代哲学家强烈建议我们做好事。

六级About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

大约1.838亿人将在感恩节后的第一个星期一“网络星期一”购物。

六级There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

通常有两个父母，他们花很多时间给孩子们读书，担心他们的焦虑程度和繁忙的日程安排。

考研America's Federal Trade commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers.

美国联邦贸易委员会就如何拯救报纸展开了一轮谈判。

六级Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

另一个对高等数学学生有影响力的反馈者是一个名为“问题解决艺术”的在线学校，它大约在13年前开始，现在有15000名用户。

考研As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

与以往一样，过去掌握着未来的关键：我们现在已经确定了足够多的塑造地球和我们物种历史的长期模式，以便对我们后代将面临的情况做出基于证据的预测。

考研Asked about his choice of career, he says at high school he considered medical school before switching to electrical engineering.

当被问及职业选择时，他说，在高中时，他考虑过医学院，然后转为电气工程专业。

高考Chimps seldom care about others' interests.

黑猩猩很少关心别人的利益。

高考But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

但好消息是，关于家里的颜色，你实际上只需要做三种决定：小决定、中决定和大决定。

考研The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

首先也是更重要的是消费者越来越倾向于外出就餐：在家以外的地方，食品和饮料的消费量占总消费量的比例已从1995年的约32%上升到2000年的35%，预计到2005年将接近38%。

四级If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

如果你的院子里有一个指示牌，上面写着你所使用的装置，这将为他们指明正确的方向，尽管在这一点上，我们谈论的是一种高度有针对性的、半复杂的攻击，而不是构成大多数盗窃案的那种强行进入攻击。

六级It is natural for students to make complaints about university education.

学生抱怨大学教育是很自然的事。

考研This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

这种DNA只能揭示一个或两个祖先的遗传信息，尽管举例来说，仅三代人之前，人们还有六位曾祖父母，或者四代人之前，还有14位曾曾祖父母。

高考A safe number of interviews to conduct is about six to ten.

要进行的安全采访数量大约为6到10次。

考研But don't overdo it or be fake about it.

但不要做得过火，也不要装模作样。

考研Will such variations bring about a change in the overall structure of the food and drink market? Definitely not.

这些变化是否会改变食品和饮料市场的整体结构？绝对不是。

六级Their number climbs to about 40 in the warmer summer months.

在温暖的夏季，它们的数量上升到大约40只。

高考During these waits, the brain slips away from the body and wanders about until the water runs over the edge of the counter and onto your socks.

在这些等待过程中，大脑会从身体上溜走，四处游荡，直到水从柜台边缘流到你的袜子上。

四级Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.

钱包的外观和感觉——扣件和材料随着年龄的增长而磨损和松动，塑料、纸张、金银、手写电话号码和印刷电影票——与我们的世界正相反。

四级A look at what goes on in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when people think about education, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what makes childhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right.

看看现在大多数教室里发生的事情，就可以清楚地看出，当人们思考教育时，他们并不是在思考作为一个孩子的感觉，或者是什么让童年本身成为生命中一个重要而有价值的阶段。

六级About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls ( ' , 短缺) in cold-weather goods, said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.

本公司可比销售额同比下降约80%可归因于短缺（“，短缺) 首席执行官特里·隆德格伦（Terry Lundgren）在新闻稿中表示，在寒冷天气商品方面。

四级Could he help explain her experiences?McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

他能帮助解释她的经历吗？麦格邀请她到他的实验室，并开始测试她：他会给她一个约会，让她告诉他那天的世界大事。

六级So much of what CES has been about is the cool.

消费电子展的大部分内容都很酷。

六级It's a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark.

这是对一项大多数人只有在智能手机变暗时才会想到的技术的戏剧性认可。

高考He worried about it very much.

他非常担心这件事。

考研When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

一万年前，当我们的祖先是猎人和采集者时，除了寻找食物，他们没有时间对任何事情感到好奇。

四级What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.

钱包的死亡让我烦恼的是它在我们的物理环境中所代表的变化。

高考China today attracts a worldwide readership, which shows that more and more people all over the world want to learn about China.

《今日中国》吸引了全世界的读者，这表明全世界越来越多的人想了解中国。

考研As a discovery claim works its way through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery claim into the community's credible discove

随着发现主张在社区中的传播，关于所涉及的科学和技术的共享和相互竞争的信念之间的互动和对抗将个人的发现主张转变为社区的可信发现

高考But the only thing that wasn't very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn't catch anything.

但唯一不好玩的是，他能钓到很多鱼，而我什么也钓不到。

六级Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

根据学生在笔试和美国数学奥林匹克竞赛中的表现，只邀请了大约50名学生。

考研“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

一位研究人员表示：“我们估计，要么消除童工等重大劳动权利问题，要么将企业捐赠增加20%左右，其罚款通常比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%。”。

高考And I went into a speech about how hard I worked and the gains I was making.

我发表了一篇演讲，讲述了我是如何努力工作和取得的成就。

四级There's something about their delicate nature that appeals to me, says New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.

《纽约客》漫画家罗兹·查斯特（Roz Chast）说：“它们微妙的本性吸引着我。”。

四级The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

然而，持有固定思维定势的学生担心自己看起来聪明，而不太重视学习。

六级For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

例如，关于多学科知识库Dryad的最流行数据集之一是关于世界各地木材密度的数据集；已下载5700次。

考研As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

当发现主张在社区中发挥作用时，关于所涉及的科学和技术的共享和相互竞争的信念之间的互动和对抗将个人的发现主张转变为社区可信的发现。

六级We have to understand and think about the implications, and balance these great innovations with the potential downsides they naturally carry with them.

我们必须理解和思考其影响，并平衡这些伟大的创新与它们自然带来的潜在负面影响。

高考And there is nothing mysterious about the mighty forces.

强大的力量并没有什么神秘之处。

高考Having interesting things to think about also helps.

有有趣的事情可以考虑也有帮助。

六级Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

消费者对公司提供的产品越来越厌倦：埃森哲对28个国家的28000名消费者进行的调查发现，消费者对技术的热情已不如从前。

高考Competent adults know more about love than work.

有能力的成年人比工作更懂得爱。

六级However, they also deserve a home of their own, a secure retirement and freedom from worrying about unpaid bills.

然而，他们也应该有一个自己的家，一个安全的退休生活和不用担心未付账单的自由。

高考Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

汉娜开始考虑如何帮助她，但是，当然，一个五岁的孩子在解决无家可归问题上做不了什么。

考研Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.

这种被劫持的媒体与赚来的媒体相反：一项资产或活动成为消费者、其他利益相关者或对品牌或产品做出负面指控的活动家的人质。

四级If we are designing for engineers, I'm not talking about a ‘game' at all, Cornetti says.

科内蒂说，如果我们是为工程师设计的，我根本不是在说“游戏”。

四级So it isn't surprising that you'll find plenty of strong opinions about the potential vulnerabilities of popular home-security systems.

因此，对于流行的家庭安全系统的潜在漏洞，你会发现很多强有力的观点，这并不奇怪。

四级Worry only about things that you can control.

只担心你能控制的事情。

高考And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

如果你手头有你的课堂讲稿或文章，你和教授将能够研究让你困惑的具体问题，而不仅仅是笼统地谈论内容。

高考Dreaming about whether you would want to read minds, see through walls, or have superhuman strength may sound silly, but it actually gets to the heart of what really matters in your life.

梦想你是想读心术，看穿墙壁，还是拥有超人的力量，听起来可能很傻，但实际上它触及到了你生活中真正重要的核心。

四级People now care more about quality than quantity.

人们现在更关心质量而不是数量。

考研At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.

在本世纪初，大约三分之一的庄稼工人年龄在35岁以上。

高考Dad sat me down and said, "Alice, I know it's hard, but it's all about persistence (坚持不懈)."

爸爸让我坐下来说：“爱丽丝，我知道这很难，但这都是为了坚持(坚持不懈)."

考研But it is really happiness that's linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities explain why firms there spend more on R and D?

但真正与投资相关的是幸福感，或者幸福城市的其他因素能解释为什么那里的企业在研发上花费更多吗？

高考According to the world bank, China accounts for about 30 percent of total global fertilizer consumption.

根据世界银行的数据，中国占全球化肥消费总量的30%左右。

高考For more information about buying senior/disabled farecards, farecard or smartrip cards and passes, please visit metroopendoors.com.

有关购买高级/残疾票价卡、票价卡或智能RIP卡和通行证的更多信息，请访问metroopendors.com。

四级What makes a game game-like is that the player -108- actually cares about the outcome, Werbach says.

沃巴赫说，让一场比赛变得如此的是，108岁的球员实际上关心比赛的结果。

高考At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 metres Olympic gold.

在北京奥运会上，她成为有史以来第一位获得100米奥运金牌的牙买加女子，消除了人们对她是否有能力始终如一地表现的怀疑。

考研According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.

根据《2010年世界社会科学报告》，自2000年以来，全世界社会科学学生的数量每年增长约11%。

高考But Lehanne's psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It's trying to help the city's troubled neighborhood cafes.

但莱哈恩的心理咖啡馆不仅仅是了解自己：它试图帮助城市陷入困境的邻里咖啡馆。

四级They asked, Was it as good as American beef? It was very exciting for me to be on Japanese TV, speaking in Japanese about how delicious the beef was.

他们问，它和美国牛肉一样好吗？能在日本电视上用日语讲述牛肉的美味，我感到非常兴奋。

四级The author conducted an experiment to find out about the influence of students' mind-sets on math learning.

作者通过实验研究了学生的思维定势对数学学习的影响。

六级Earlier this year, British explorer  Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

今年早些时候，英国探险家；哈多和他的团队在冰冻的北冰洋上跋涉了三个月，对冰层进行了测量和记录。

六级We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

纽约哥伦比亚大学环境决策研究中心的艾尔克·韦伯教授说：“我们现在最担心的是，如果我们不能在下一分钟生存下来，我们将无法在十年内生存。”。

考研DeSombre isn't saying people should stop caring about the environment.

DeSombre并不是说人们应该停止关心环境。

六级They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

他们更有可能在父母认为不适合抚养孩子的社区长大，父母担心他们被枪杀、殴打或触犯法律。

考研Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies' marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concer

除了产生收入，其他营销人员的存在使网站看起来客观，给公司机会了解关于其他公司营销吸引力的有价值信息，并可能有助于扩大所有公司的用户流量

考研A Harvard Business School study found that observers consistently rated those who were frank about themselves more highly, while those who hid lost trustworthiness.

哈佛商学院（Harvard Business School）的一项研究发现，观察者一贯认为那些对自己坦诚的人的评价更高，而那些隐瞒真相的人则失去了可信度。

六级What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.

如何应对大规模失业？所有智者都同意：没有快速或简单的答案。

考研Consumers passionate about a product may create "earned" media by willingly promoting it to friend,and a company may leverage "owned" media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Website.

对某一产品充满热情的消费者可能会通过自愿将其推广给朋友来创建“赚来的”媒体，而公司可能会通过向在其网站注册的客户发送有关产品和销售的电子邮件提醒来利用“自有”媒体。

考研"We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials," says one

“我们估计，要么消除大量劳工权利问题，如童工，要么将企业捐赠增加20%左右，结果导致罚款通常比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%，”一位官员表示

六级Having already enabled a communications revolution, the battery is now poised to transform just about everything else.

电池已经开启了一场通信革命，现在正准备改变其他一切。

考研In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work.

在科学是如何完成的理想化版本中，关于世界的事实等待着使用科学方法开展工作的客观研究人员观察和收集。

六级And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.

当涉及到科技公司为我们描绘的超互联超智能世界时，消费者似乎越来越不愿意交出大量消费者数据，以提供个性化、定制的解决方案，而这些解决方案正是公司改善服务所需要的。

六级But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

但美国研究人员悄悄抱怨预算限制，破冰船比俄罗斯少得多，限制了美国在南极洲的活动范围。

考研And guilt, by prompting us to think more deeply about our goodness, can encourage humans to make up for errors and fix relationships.

而内疚，通过促使我们更深入地思考我们的善良，可以鼓励人类弥补错误，修复关系。

四级But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

但是沃巴赫说，游戏化这个词和这个概念的广泛、有意识的应用直到大约五年前才真正开始。

四级The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it is considering closing about 3,700 post offices over the next year because of falling revenues.

美国邮政局今天宣布，由于收入下降，它正在考虑明年关闭大约3700家邮局。

六级Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.

斯泰西将带你一步一步地成为一名社会工作者，米尔将告诉你一旦你获得了社会工作学位，你可以选择的范围，以及社会工作者必须遵守的高标准责任。

六级Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums.

美国人对医疗费用和医疗保险费的持续上涨深感担忧。

六级There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

学生们有很多抱怨：偿还贷款的还款门槛将被冻结五年，这意味着低收入的毕业生必须开始偿还贷款；赡养费补助已经被贷款所取代，这意味着来自贫困家庭的学生比那些父母更富有的学生面临更高的债务。

六级We hope you enjoy the series about how you can make a difference by becoming a social worker.

我们希望你喜欢这一系列关于如何通过成为一名社会工作者来改变现状的节目。

高考But the most important information I want to give you now is about safety.

但我现在想告诉你们的最重要的信息是关于安全的。

高考Find out more about joining a GDA programme.

了解更多有关加入GDA计划的信息。

四级Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.

成年人在谈论学习时往往把它当作一剂良药：不愉快，但却是必要的，而且对你有益。

高考Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in manitoba and then in other provinces.

汉娜开始公开谈论马尼托巴省和其他省份的无家可归问题。

高考Enjoy yourselves while learning about web design and make new friends in the club.

在学习网页设计和结交新朋友的同时，尽情享受。

高考About 100 of these stayed rich men for the rest of their lives.

其中大约有100人在他们的余生中都是富人。

高考From the experience, I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can affect the members of a team.

从这次经历中，我学到了很多关于领导者的态度如何影响团队成员的知识。

考研Asking them questions about what they like about the backyard of a potential home will make them feel like they're being included in the decision-making process, Bailey said.

贝利说，向他们询问他们对潜在住宅后院的喜好，会让他们觉得自己被纳入了决策过程。

四级It's not about that; it's about growth for me.

与此无关；对我来说是关于成长的。

六级Today we are going to be talking about becoming a social worker.

今天我们要讨论的是成为一名社会工作者。

考研College officials tend to emphasize that the goal of grade forgiveness is less about the grade itself and more about encouraging students to retake courses critical to their degree program and graduation without incurring a big penalty.

大学官员倾向于强调，分数宽恕的目标与其说是分数本身，不如说是鼓励学生重修对他们的学位课程和毕业至关重要的课程，而不会招致巨大的惩罚。

考研In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered.

在那些遥远的日子里，人们想当然地认为，主要报纸的评论家们会详细、详尽地报道他们报道的事件。

高考Between the ages of about 12 and 50, women produce hormones that are involved in fertility (生育能力).

在12岁到50岁之间，女性会产生与生育有关的激素(生育能力).

高考Get smart about the people who you spend your time with.

对与你共度时光的人要聪明一点。

高考At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

目前，世界上大约有6800种语言。

六级Consumers are becoming more worried about giving personal information to tech companies to get customized products and services.

消费者越来越担心向科技公司提供个人信息以获得定制的产品和服务。

考研So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

因此，在与创造力和创新相同的背景下谈论习惯似乎是截然相反的。

考研So what does our deep future hold? A growing number of researchers and organisations are now thinking seriously about that question.

那么，我们的深层次未来是什么？越来越多的研究人员和组织正在认真思考这个问题。