高考Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

儿童可能比科学家有更大的理解事物的能力。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

六级exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market.

出口正在增长，因为越来越多的外国人有能力购买我们生产和销售的东西。

2011年12月阅读原文

六级They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual's ability to use language and remember things

他们认为，女孩大脑左侧的神经末梢比男孩发育得更快，正是这一侧大脑强烈地影响着一个人使用语言和记忆事物的能力

2012年12月听力原文

六级I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.

我发现这种瞬间转移注意力的能力通常是一件好事，比如在公共交通工具上打发时间。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研It allows us to have perspective on our lives - the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

它能让我们对自己的生活有一个视角——不把自己看得太严肃，嘲笑自己，看到更大的图景，看到事情会发展。

2016年考研翻译原文

高考Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to prevent themselves from being destroyed.

有特定用途的机器与生物联系在一起，部分原因是它们可能能够防止自己被摧毁。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

四级Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of the text instead of buying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as little as $

此外，学生将能够购买课文的各个部分，而不是购买整个内容，每个章节的成本仅为$

2013年6月阅读原文

六级It's a rare thing for anybody to be able to change who they really are.

对于任何人来说，能够改变自己的真实面目是一件非常罕见的事情。

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

考研But as adults we also have the luxury of being able to control our own diaries and it's important that we schedule in time to enjoy the thing we love.

但作为成年人，我们也有能力控制自己的日记的奢侈，重要的是我们要及时安排时间来享受我们喜欢的东西。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they've apparently learned is when to stop.

很多其他物种都能学习，他们显然学到的一件事就是什么时候停止。

2009年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Having interesting things to think about also helps.

有有趣的事情可以考虑也有帮助。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 单项填空 选项

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。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

四级Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn’t have to think about time zones when updating family.

Katherine喜欢Facebook的另一件事是，她在更新家庭信息时不必考虑时区。

2017年6月听力原文

四级may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

能更好地解决难题能更容易地记忆事物能更容易地进行抽象推理能更有效地利用他们所学的知识找到减缓我们心理衰退的方法找到提高记忆力的方法理解心理功能的复杂过程理解生理和心理之间的关系上周新闻中最重要的一件事是纳什维尔关于儿童教育需求的讨论日益增多。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Worry only about things that you can control.

只担心你能控制的事情。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.

希腊人提出的古代哲学的好处在于，他们倾向于以一种我们往往看不到今天生活的方式，把生活看得清晰而完整。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.

因此，苏皮奥斯解释说，浪费我们的身体、智力和精神能量担心我们无法控制的事情是不值得的。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级So take a step back, switch off the automatic pilot and actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities, our values, and our relationships.

因此，退一步，关掉自动驾驶仪，真正停下来思考我们的优先事项、价值观和关系等问题。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

我想让事情变得更复杂，因为我建议老年人居住的设施可能比我们想象的要重要。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

作为一个以写饮食为生的人，我不能告诉你比尔·佩里的第一件事，也不能告诉你他卖的啤酒是否那么好。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

你知道，当人们问我关于补充剂的事时，我喜欢告诉他们的第一件事是，很多补充剂被宣传为治疗你的记忆，但你的记忆不需要治疗。

2016年6月听力原文

六级Carli says that one of the most significant things about his study is that it provides new early-warning signs for parents, teachers and mental health-care providers.

卡利说，他的研究最重要的一点是，它为家长、教师和心理保健提供者提供了新的预警信号。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级When I teach in classroom, we often end up talking about things like success and what leads to success.

当我在教室里教书的时候，我们经常谈论成功以及什么导致了成功。

2016年12月听力原文

考研As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear.

尽管一些科学家可能会抱怨新的奖项，但有两件事似乎很清楚。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研But, the wonderful thing about failure is that it's entirely up to us to decide how to look at it.

但是，失败的奇妙之处在于，如何看待它完全取决于我们自己。

2020年考研真题（英语二）翻译 Section Ⅲ

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。

2020年考研真题（英语二）翻译 Section Ⅲ

高考One thing is for certain—Larry went above and beyond the call of duty by getting so close to the burning vehicle! His efforts most likely saved the woman's life.

有一件事是肯定的，拉里如此接近燃烧的汽车，超出了职责范围！他的努力很可能救了那个女人的命。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

六级Most pop singers suffer from three things: lack of training, overuse and abuse of the voice, especially when they are young

大多数流行歌手都有三方面的问题：缺乏训练、过度使用和滥用嗓音，尤其是年轻时

2013年6月听力原文

高考Common sense suggests it was a good thing for parents to get involved because "children with good academic success do have involved parents", admitted Robinson.

罗宾逊承认，常识表明，父母参与其中是件好事，因为“学业成绩好的孩子确实有父母参与”。

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence A will be "either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity", and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated to researching the future o

斯蒂芬·霍金教授警告说，强大的人工智能A的创造将是“人类有史以来最好的事情，也可能是最坏的事情”，并赞扬成立了一个专门研究人类未来的学术机构

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility( ' , CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

但即使你接受弗里德曼的前提，认为企业社会责任（CSR）政策是对股东资金的浪费，事情也可能不是绝对明确的。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研But even if you accept Friedman's premise and regard corporate social responsibility policies as a waste of shareholders' money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

但即使你接受弗里德曼的前提，认为企业社会责任政策是浪费股东的钱，事情也可能不是绝对明确的。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.

“意外发现”一词是霍勒斯·沃尔波尔在1854年的一封信中创造的，出自一个关于三位王子的故事，他们总是意外地发现他们不想寻找的东西。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.

从故意破坏物品的小案件到更严重的犯罪案件,，比如酒后驾车的车祸或银行抢劫案，但弗洛伦斯必须报告所有这些违规行为，从从从宿舍每个开锁的房间拿走打字机的小偷到从大学博物馆偷走价值100万美元艺术品的小偷。

2011年6月听力原文

四级On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish.

另一方面，任务计时器有一个他们想要完成的事情的列表。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

根据战略与国际研究中心（CentreforStrategicalandInternationalStudies）的数据，我们用于移动物体（包括我们自己）的能源中，约有四分之三无法完成任何有用的工作。

2015年12月听力原文

四级It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

根据普鲁塔克的说法，对另一个人的言论提出异议并不困难，这是一件非常容易的事情；但生产更好的替代品是一项极其麻烦的工作。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

面对水资源短缺和化肥成本不断上升，发展中国家的农民正在使用未经处理的污水（“，下 水道污水) 根据一份新的报告，灌溉和施肥近4900万英亩的农田，这可能不是一件坏事。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级For one thing, stereotypes are often accurate.

一方面，刻板印象通常是准确的。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级If you are a graduate student, you may depend on your adviser for many things, including help with improving grades, acquiring financial support, forming an examining committee and getting letters of recommendation.

如果你是一名研究生，你可能会在很多事情上依赖你的导师，包括帮助你提高成绩、获得经济支持、成立审查委员会和获得推荐信。

2016年6月听力原文

四级Here's where things get interesting, though: If a particularly important passage is highlighted by multiple Inkling users, that information is stored on the cloud and is available for anyone reading the same textbook to come across.

然而，有趣的是：如果一篇特别重要的文章被多个有线索的用户突出显示，这些信息存储在云上，任何阅读同一本教科书的人都可以看到。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级I think most of the administrators I've come across have degrees and all sorts of things.

我想我遇到的大多数管理人员都有学位和各种各样的东西。

2011年12月听力原文

六级And my calendar always looked like a mess with loads of things to do, written across it.

我的日历上总是乱七八糟地写满了要做的事情。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

六级"The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us," says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.

杜克大学的行为心理学家丹·艾瑞利说：“撒谎的危险之处在于人们不明白这种行为是如何改变我们的。”。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考The end result is that we feel like we can't focus or that we're focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

最终的结果是，我们觉得我们不能集中精力，或者我们把精力放在了错误的事情上，因此我们采取的行动更少，取得的进步更少，并且在我们可以改进的时候保持不变。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考One thing is clear for these larger animals, staying transparent is an active process.

对这些大型动物来说，有一点是清楚的，保持透明是一个积极的过程。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考The most obvious thing is that there is much more activity in the streets than in a typical US city.

最明显的是，街道上的活动比典型的美国城市多得多。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 听力 原文

四级Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

与其让孩子们努力工作，不如让他们在有意义的、有成效的活动中获得乐趣，比如做事情、与他人合作、探索想法和解决问题？这些关注点与他们喜欢的事物没有太大区别。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

与其让孩子们努力工作，不如让他们在有意义的、有成效的活动中获得乐趣，比如做事情、与他人合作、探索想法和解决问题？

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级They encounter boys all the time socially out of school, and through debating societies and things like that, some school activities as well.

他们在校外的社交活动中经常遇到男孩，通过辩论社团之类的活动，也会遇到一些学校活动。

2013年12月听力原文

六级For example, in the case of young people's drinking, one of the things that I've identified is that drinking for people, say, between the ages of 18 and 24, is all about the social activity.

例如，在年轻人饮酒的案例中，我发现的一件事是，对于18岁到24岁的人来说，饮酒完全是社交活动。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

高考Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this—either by growing new produce, or by growing the same things differently.

许多国家的农民也在这样适应，要么种植新产品，要么以不同的方式种植相同的东西。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级You can also add different things if you like such as half-boiled egg or cured ham.

如果你喜欢，你也可以添加不同的东西，如半熟鸡蛋或腌制火腿。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

六级But things change fast in the nail-biting world of college admissions

但是，在大学招生这个扣人心弦的世界里，情况变化很快

2013年12月阅读原文

高考The thing is, a number of them have admitted that despite their success, they aren't happy.

问题是，他们中的一些人承认，尽管他们取得了成功，但他们并不快乐。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

六级Ultimately, that's the thing universities don't want to admit.

最终，这是大学不愿意承认的事情。

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in.

成年儿童在开始寻找时所寻找的特征不一定对即将入住的人产生影响。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills.

使儿童与成人区别开来的不是他们的无知，也不是他们缺乏技能。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考He advised him to slow down and take things easy.

他建议他放慢脚步，放轻松。

2015年高考英语天津卷 答案 选项

高考I had advised the kids that while verbs may seem dull, most of the clever things they do throughout their lives will be verbs.

我曾建议孩子们，虽然动词可能看起来很枯燥，但他们一生中做的大多数聪明的事情都是动词。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

四级Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life.

几乎每一个孩子，在他踏进学校大楼的第一天，都会变得更聪明、更好奇、更少害怕自己不知道的东西、更善于发现和解决问题、更自信、更足智多谋(机敏的), 在他的学校里，他将变得更加执着和独立——或者，除非他非常不寻常，非常幸运，否则他将终生如此。

2010年6月听力原文

四级Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed

在解释数据显示的情况时，他说：“你所看到的是，即使三年后，精神健康仍然更好，这与我们认为会让我们快乐的许多其他事情不同。”他观察到，生活在绿色空间的人压力更小

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

几年前，在经历了十年的单独自营职业后，当我重新进入全职工作岗位时，有一件事是我最期待的：有机会再次结交工作上的朋友。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研It's not necessarily a bad thing, but depending on the school, it can be costly to make up credits after switching too late in the game.

这不一定是一件坏事，但根据学校的不同，在游戏切换太晚后补学分可能会很昂贵。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研They link between happiness and investment generally held even after accounting for these things.

即使考虑到这些因素，幸福感和投资之间的联系仍然普遍存在。

2016年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考These were the real deal- and at that moment, I realized that the best part of sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn't be experiencing again for months.

这才是真正的交易——在那一刻，我意识到萨拉索塔冬天最好的部分是吃那些在纽约的家里我几个月都不会再吃的东西。

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life

几乎每一个孩子，在他踏进学校大楼的第一天，都会变得更聪明、更好奇、更少害怕自己不知道的东西、更善于发现和解决问题、更自信、更足智多谋(机敏的), 在他的学校里，他将变得更加坚毅和独立——或者，除非他非常不同寻常，非常幸运，否则他将终生如此

2010年6月听力原文

四级"It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to Plutarch," to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome."

普鲁塔克说：“对别人的言论提出异议并不难，这是一件很容易的事；但是，要产生一个更好的替代品是一项极其麻烦的工作。”

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级Aristotle and Socrates debated the nature of "akrasia"一our tendency to do things against our interests.

亚里士多德和苏格拉底就“阿克拉西亚”的性质进行了辩论一我们倾向于做违背我们利益的事情。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级We have no chance of competing against machines on frequent high-volume tasks, but there are things we can do that machines cannot.

我们没有机会在频繁的高容量任务上与机器竞争，但有些事情我们可以做，而机器却做不到。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more.

另一方面，科学家们越来越认识到衰老和生物年龄是两个不同的东西，前者是心脏病、癌症等疾病的关键风险因素。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

高考Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.

几年前，我收到了一封来自17岁的克里的信，她自称是世界级的挑剔者，几乎总是被事情所困扰。

2015年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文

六级All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that millennials are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home will becom

所有研究都一致认为，到2020年，将有近250亿台设备、物品和传感器连接起来，顺便说一句，这也是千禧一代预计将占我们总劳动力的75%的时刻，而完全连接的家庭也将成为可能

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Some people are too subordinate to others' opinions, too focused on decision consensus, too silent about their own point of view, too agreeable to take things on when they don't have time or energy.

有些人太服从别人的意见，太专注于决策共识，对自己的观点太沉默，在没有时间和精力的情况下太容易接受事情。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考Many western companies have tried to imitate such asian ways of doing things, which are based on general agreement.

许多西方公司都试图模仿这种基于普遍认同的亚洲做事方式。

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

六级It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.

毫不奇怪，物联网的新应用正在快速发展，因为我们购买的几乎每一款新设备的末端都有插头或与互联网的无线连接。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研Rather than pulling students back, a gap year pushes them ahead by preparing them for independence, new responsibilities and environmental changes—all things that first-year students often struggle with the most.

空档年并没有让学生退却，而是通过让他们为独立、新的责任和环境变化做好准备来推动他们前进，而这些都是一年级学生通常最为挣扎的事情。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Those things might be social, sporting, creative or completely random -It doesn't matter, so long as they're enjoyable, and not likely to have negative side effects, such as drinking too much alcohol or going on a wild spending spree if you're on a tight

这些事情可能是社交性的、运动性的、创造性的或完全随机的——只要它们是令人愉快的，并且不太可能有负面的副作用，比如喝太多的酒，或者如果你手头紧，就疯狂地花钱，这都不重要

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: all you need to do is focus on one thing?

每当你发现这个世界在你面前挥舞着一把椅子，记住这一点：你所需要做的就是专注于一件事？

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考But one thing is certain, all people encounter mountains in their life.

但有一件事是肯定的，所有的人在他们的生活中都会遇到高山。

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

四级The cinema, the theatre, all that wasvery exciting with new things coming out.

电影院，剧院，所有这些都因新事物的出现而令人兴奋。

2017年6月听力原文

四级The important thing is for all of us to keep in mind the real goal and the longer, bigger picture.

重要的是，我们所有人都要牢记真正的目标和更长远、更广阔的前景。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

最近的一项研究试图计算人类经济生态过度的程度，发现我们正在使用价值1.2地球的环境商品和服务，这意味着在某个时候债务将被收回，所有这些服务——地球为我们免费提供的服务——都将嘎然而止。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研It does not include important factors such as environmental quality or education outcomes – all things that contribute to a person’s sense of well-being.

它不包括环境质量或教育成果等重要因素——所有有助于一个人幸福感的因素。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研But the headlong push into bachelor's degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point: That's not the only thing the American economy needs.

但是，一头扎进所有人的学士学位，再加上对其他学位的微妙贬值，忽略了一个重要的问题：这不是美国经济所需要的唯一东西。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考I'm not suggesting you ignore problems, or that you pretend things are better than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are— at least most of the time, and especially when it's not a really big deal.

我不是建议你忽略问题，或者你假装事情比实际情况好，只是建议你学会让事情保持现状——至少在大多数情况下是这样，尤其是当事情不是很严重的时候。

2015年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文

四级It allows for economic efficiency, and when we buy things from places that have lower production costs than we do, we benefit.

它考虑到了经济效率，当我们从生产成本比我们低的地方购买东西时，我们会受益。

2014年6月阅读原文

四级The big change is the availability of more data about people and things, which allows physical assets to be divided and consumed as services.

最大的变化是更多关于人和物的数据的可用性，这允许物理资产被分割并作为服务使用。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.

Cablevision希望在明年初允许客户使用遥控器购买物品。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级The ROWE participants were allowed to freely determine when, where and how they worked – the only thing that mattered was that they got the job done.

ROWE参与者可以自由决定他们在何时、何地以及如何工作——唯一重要的是他们完成了工作。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研Too often we believe that, a new job, bigger house or better car will be the magic silver bullet that will allow us to finally be content, but the reality is these things have little lasting impact on our happiness levels.

我们常常相信，一份新工作、更大的房子或更好的汽车将是让我们最终满足的灵丹妙药，但现实是，这些东西对我们的幸福水平几乎没有持久的影响。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and their use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words learned/learnt this way in conversations almost automatically.

另一件好事是，你会无意识地学习生词和它们的用法，这意味着你会倾向于在对话中几乎自动地使用这种方式学习到的单词。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 语法填空 原文

六级A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world's most powerful economies to say? Perhaps; though in the run-up to the five-year review of the Millennium ( ' , 千年的) Goals, he is far from alone.

对于一个管理着世界上最强大的经济体之一的人来说，这是一件令人惊讶的事情？也许；虽然在千年发展目标五年期审查之前（“，千年的) 他远非孤军奋战。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级After repeating the question, she explained that the sufficient number of security guards would be working at peak hours to speed things along

在重复了这个问题之后，她解释说，在高峰时间，将有足够数量的保安人员在工作，以加快工作进度

2012年12月听力原文

四级He says visitors are already good at keeping things clean.

他说，游客已经很擅长保持东西干净。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

高考A cat's mom also brings home things to her children to help them practice hunting.

一只猫的妈妈还把东西带回家给她的孩子们，帮助他们练习打猎。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

高考In fact, tradition also refers to the things that have been developing and that are still being created.

事实上，传统也指那些已经发展并仍在创造的事物。

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考It also asked mothers about the challenges they face, with 80 percent making emotional demand as the hardest thing about motherhood.

调查还询问了母亲们面临的挑战，80%的母亲认为情感需求是做母亲最困难的事情。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级There are also rules dealing with interpersonal relationships: Be a responsible human being and do not do evil things to others.

还有处理人际关系的规则：做一个负责任的人，不要对别人做坏事。

2016年6月阅读原文