考研Failure can also teach us things about ourselves that we would never have learned otherwise.

失败也能教会我们一些我们本不可能学到的东西。

考研But mayors and councilors can only do so much about a problem that is far bigger than any one city or town.

但市长和议员们只能在一个比任何一个城市或城镇都严重得多的问题上有所作为。

高考Anxiously I went to bed dreaming about what I would find at the top of this magical mountain.

我焦急地上床睡觉，梦见在这座神奇的山顶上会发现什么。

考研As Koziatek knows, there is learning in just about everything.

正如科齐亚特克所知，几乎每件事都有学习的机会。

四级If we humans aren't quite sure about a decision, we go and ask somebody else.

如果我们人类对某个决定不太确定，我们就去问别人。

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。

考研About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good.

例如，大约四分之一的意大利移民最终永久返回意大利。

四级I'm talking about a ‘simulation（' 模 拟), I'm talking about ‘being able to solve this problem.

我说的是“模拟”模 拟), 我说的是‘能够解决这个问题’。

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%。”。

四级Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

每当她给父母或其他亲戚打电话时，她总是要考虑时差，这样她就不会叫醒别人，也不会在知道他们在教堂时给他们打电话。

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。

四级The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

真正批评的亲密本质意味着谁能够给予批评，也就是说，有人非常了解你，向你展示你的精神生活是如何阻碍优秀写作的。

四级Recently I attended several meetings where we talked about ways to retain students and keep younger faculty members from going elsewhere.

最近我参加了几次会议，我们讨论了留住学生和防止年轻教师去其他地方的方法。

六级We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to India.

在听说一个邻居去印度旅行后，我们违背了不坐飞机的诺言。

四级On Sunday, the castle’s owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the River Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.

根据苏格兰每日记录，周日，城堡的主人约翰·戈登（John Gordon），76岁，在迪河冲走了大约60英尺的土地后，被迫搬走了他的财产，使城堡危险地靠近河流。

六级The state officials are confident about the outsourcing plan.

州政府官员对外包计划充满信心。

四级Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

你们能在其他地方复制硅谷吗，或者它有什么独特之处吗？若它在其他国家很难复制，这并不奇怪，因为你们也不能在我们大多数人中复制它。

考研Besides helping you feel close and connected to people you care about, it turns out that hugs can bring a host of health benefits to your body and mind.

事实证明，拥抱除了能让你与你所关心的人保持亲密关系外，还能给你的身心带来许多健康益处。

四级She loved learning about the success of people she knew when she was just a teenager.

她喜欢了解她十几岁时认识的人的成功。

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The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

少吃多开心的秘诀可能早在几年前就被麦当劳破解了。

四级For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

例如，谈论或多或少与生俱来的数学天才会让学生产生固定的思维定势，但对热爱数学并发展出惊人技能的伟大数学家的描述会产生一种成长的思维定势。

考研Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.

在当今的经济环境下，抱怨资金短缺的社会科学家不应该期望得到更多。

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%。

六级Some young people like to keep something to themselves and don't want their parents to know about it.

有些年轻人喜欢把一些事情保密，不想让父母知道。

考研But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.

但如果决策者将工作重点重新放在改善福利上，而不仅仅是担心GDP数据，就可以避免预测的厄运，甚至可能看到进展。

四级Students' belief about the cause of their failure explains their attitude toward setbacks.

学生对失败原因的信念解释了他们对挫折的态度。

六级American scientists complain about lack of sufficient money and equipment for their expansion in Antarctica.

美国科学家抱怨他们在南极洲的扩张缺乏足够的资金和设备。

四级One had to quit abruptly on a given day, going from about a pack a day to zero.

一个人不得不在某一天突然戒烟，从每天一包到零。

高考Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.

白日梦意味着人们想一些愉快的事情，尤其是当这让他们忘记他们应该做什么的时候。

高考Ehlers thought about the small dog he had seen trembling alongside the road.

埃勒斯想起了他看到的那只在路边颤抖的小狗。

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So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and irrational.

所以伊壁鸠鲁会说，坐在家里担心这是错误的、浪费的和不合理的。

考研How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

你的阅读是如何进行的？显然，你试图理解，从识别单个单词的意义和找出它们之间的关系的意义上来说，利用你对英语语法的明确知识（'，41），你开始推断文本的上下文，对于insta4ce来说，通过决定涉及什么样的言语事件：谁在说话，给谁，何时何地。

四级There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

一些食品公司一直在努力降低加工食品中的卡路里含量，但这一努力并不热心，但却广为宣传，但标准的美国饮食与几乎所有专家都说我们应该吃的以植物为基础的健康饮食仍然是截然相反的。

高考How about a pair of running shoes?

一双跑鞋怎么样？

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

但不要做得过火，也不要装模作样。

六级In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

在去年发表的一项研究中，心理学家创造了“工作场所远程压力”一词，用来描述员工立即回复电子邮件的冲动，以及将电子邮件回复给老板、同事或客户的强迫性想法。

高考He recommended that she do some research and talk to dentists about what a healthier candy would contain.

他建议她做一些研究，并与牙医讨论什么是更健康的糖果。

高考Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

美国人每人每年只吃大约15磅的鱼，但我们在餐馆里吃的鱼是在家里的两倍。

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。

高考For hill, it is impossible not to talk about China as the leading player when discussing fashion.

对希尔来说，在讨论时尚时，不可能不谈论中国是领先者。

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。

考研Even very young children tend to look down on the overweight, and teasing about body build has long been a problem in schools.

即使是非常年幼的孩子也会看不起超重的孩子，对体格的取笑一直是学校里的一个问题。

高考Go straight ahead and walk about three blocks.

一直往前走，走大约三个街区。

考研factories of Honda Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese countere pants a result of the training that U.

本田-日产（Honda-Nissan）和丰田（Toyota）的工厂实现了其日本Counter裤子约95%的生产率。

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%。

四级Worry only about things that you can control.

只担心你能控制的事情。

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。

四级Details about what led to the workers’ being trapped in the elevator weren’t immediately available.

关于导致工人被困在电梯中的原因的详细信息目前还不清楚。

高考Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles about 515 kilometers long was seen near cincinnati.

直到1870年，当它们的数量已经变少时，在辛辛那提附近发现了一只宽1英里、长320英里、长约515公里的羊群。

四级The concept has multiple forms, and scholars and policymakers argue about the shape, scope and cost of the ideal program.

这一概念有多种形式，学者和决策者对理想计划的形式、范围和成本存在争议。

高考Competent adults know more about love than work.

有能力的成年人比工作更懂得爱。

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

考研Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.

同样不足为奇的是，只有大约一半的学生最终进入了研究生院担任教授。

考研Two of the three objecting Justice-Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas-agreed with this Constitutional logic but disagreed about which Arizona rules conflicted with the federal statute.

三名反对法官塞缪尔·阿利托（Samuel Alito）和克拉伦斯·托马斯（Clarence Thomas）中的两名同意这一宪法逻辑，但不同意亚利桑那州的哪些规则与联邦法规相冲突。

四级It’s: why are the British so cold? And they’re talking about the British personality—the famous British reserve.

问题是：为什么英国人这么冷？他们在谈论英国人的性格，著名的英国保守派。

四级Informing students about the brain as a learning machine is a good strategy to enhance their motivation for learning.

让学生了解大脑是一台学习机器，这是增强他们学习动机的一个好策略。

六级John, tell us about the first survey.

约翰，告诉我们第一次调查的情况。

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。

四级There's nothing mysterious about cooking the evening meal.

做晚饭没有什么神秘的。

高考As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

当我坐在自己的天堂里时，我开始考虑拥有更多。

高考Every year about 40, 000 people attempt to climb kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

每年约有40000人试图攀登非洲最高的山乞力马扎罗山。

高考Art students making a good living with these statistics/data/analyses in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have an alternative plan.

艺术类学生生活得很好考虑到这些统计/数据/分析，艺术类学生不必担心自己的职业生涯，而是有一个可供选择的计划。

考研Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

布鲁克斯女士可能怀疑，也可能不怀疑她的记者是如何得到他们的报道的，但她没有提出任何问题，没有给出任何指示，也没有收到可追踪的、有记录的答案。

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。

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。

六级This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

该委员会主席乔恩·莱博维茨（Jon Leibowitz）表示：“这实际上是为了消除消费者在购买产品时和企业在销售产品时的困惑。”。

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Here are the top 5 things nobody told me about college.

以下是关于大学没人告诉我的五件事。

六级Consumers are often hesitant to try smart-home devices because they are worried about compatibility problems.

消费者往往对尝试智能家居设备犹豫不决，因为他们担心兼容性问题。

考研But just some 22,000 birds remain today, occupying about 16% of the species' historic range.

但今天只剩下约22000只鸟类，约占该物种历史范围的16%。

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。

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。

六级You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.

你会听到越来越多关于国家之间、农村地区和城市之间的移民问题。

高考And we'll pour about 30 percent more liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.

我们将把大约30%的液体倒入一个又短又宽的玻璃杯，而不是一个又高又细的玻璃杯。

考研During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

在20世纪90年代末，国家在社会科学和人文科学方面的支出占所有研究和发展基金（包括政府、高等教育、非营利组织和企业）的比例从4%到25%不等；在大多数欧洲国家，这一比例约为15%。

六级Hello, today I’m going to talk about poverty.

你好，今天我要谈谈贫困。

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Well, my current research is really about consumer behaviour.

嗯，我目前的研究实际上是关于消费者行为的。

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 concerned.

除了产生收入外，其他营销人员的存在使网站看起来客观，使公司有机会了解有关其他公司营销吸引力的宝贵信息，并可能有助于扩大所有相关公司的用户流量。

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

四级What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

供应呢？三大环境趋势——淡水短缺、表土流失和气温上升——使得世界粮食供应越来越难以快速增长，以满足需求。

考研Even the very phrase "jobseeker's allowance" is about redefining the unemployed as a "jobseeker" who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

即使是“求职者津贴”这个词也意味着将失业者重新定义为一个“求职者”，他或她没有通过缴纳国家保险金获得福利的基本权利。

六级They are curious about specific features.

他们对特定的特征很好奇。

考研Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

对商业方法权利主张的限制将是一个戏剧性的转变，因为是联邦巡回法院本身在1998年所谓的“州街银行案”的判决中引入了这类专利，该判决批准了一项以汇集共同基金资产为方式的专利。

高考He thought about all the survival shows he had watched on TV.

他想起了他在电视上看过的所有生存节目。

高考He worried about it very much.

他非常担心这件事。

四级Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to winter time starting on October 26.

例如，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京从10月26日起将该国永久性地改为冬季后，俄罗斯人开始每天大约半小时后醒来。

六级Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

公司正在努力推动，但对于普通消费者来说，这几乎是压倒性的，因为有太多的兼容性问题需要考虑。

四级The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

从这项研究中可以得出的最起码的结论是，公司需要更加认真地思考团队管理问题。

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As shown here, Lainey can become excited about reading when presented with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

如图所示，当莱尼看到有关她感兴趣的主题的文学作品时，当她周围的人参与到阅读过程中时，她会对阅读感到兴奋。

考研If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

如果一切进展如此顺利，那么为什么1700多万人投票支持英国脱欧，尽管有人警告说脱欧会对英国的经济前景造成什么影响？。

六级I think about some of the students who took advantages of their opportunities in a university.

我想到了一些学生，他们利用在大学的机会。

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They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans.

他们要求两个小组就制定恢复计划所需的重要问题提出问题。

高考Gossip also can have a third effect: It strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act.

流言蜚语还有第三个作用：它强化了人们应该如何行动的不成文、不成文的规则。

高考But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one.

但在一位访客告诉他他需要刷子之前，他并不知道刷子。