I couldn't afford the house I really wanted, so I had to settle for second best.
我真心想要的房子我买不起，所以只得退而求其次了。
Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre.
弗吉尼娅是个完美主义者。她就是无法勉强接受任何平庸的东西。
I am not prepared to see children in some parts of this country having to settle for a second-class education.
我不愿看到在这个国家部分地区的儿童们只能勉强接受次等的教育。
Until then, we'll settle for elite airmen embracing their superhero status.
在这之前，我们将让这些精英飞人们继续做他们的超级英雄吧。
We have to settle for evolving the code as best we can under the time constraints.
我们必须在时间的限制之下尽最大努力来满足于改进编码。
Workers can command higher wages and are less willing to settle for lower ones.
工人们会要求更高的工资而且低工资已经没法使他们安定下来。
Don't settle for achieving "the good life," because the good life is not good enough.
不要满足于实现什么“美好的生活”，因为美好的生活是不够好的。
You'll get a booth seat if you're lucky, but might have to settle for a simple stool.
如果你运气好的话，可能会得到一个有座位的桌子，但是大多数时候你可能不得不接受一个简单的板凳。
Then I ask, ‘Do you think China will settle for anything less than being treated as equal?’
接着我问，‘你认为中国会满足于任何事都不被平等对待么？’
They may have to hang up their ropes and carabiners and settle for rambles in the foothills.
也许为了解决在山麓漫步的问题，他们不得不松开绳索和吊钩。
Argentina applied sufficient pressure to defeat Nigeria easily but had to settle for 1-0.
阿根廷疯狂施压，轻松击败尼日利亚，但比分只有1：0。
Most users settle for the standard as it is, even if it will be the final version ever produced.
多数用户满足于标准的现状，仿佛生来就该如此一样。
If a professional grading system existed, executives would never settle for a D- in their careers.
如果有专业的分级制度，经理人们永远不会满足于在职业生涯中获得D。
No one should settle for boring work, but I can’t force people to want heart pumping awesome work.
任何人都不应该满足于毫无乐趣而言的工作，但我也不能强迫人们对那些绝佳的工作怦然心动吧。
I'm not saying that you should settle for second-best - but you should look at what's realistic.
我并不是说你应该为第二好梦想努力，但你应该注意现实是什么。
I've decided to dodge these issues and settle for a namespace-insensitive approximation of XPaths.
我已经决定避开这些问题，将就点，采用与XPath相似的对名称空间不敏感的方法。
Even if you do settle for a high paying job just so you can buy things, it should be your decision.
就算你真的为了一个高薪的工作安定下来以至你可以买这买那，这也是你的选择。
That refusal to settle for being “old” will only get stronger as the baby-boomers start turning 65.
随着婴儿潮这代人迈进65岁，他们拒不承认“老了”的心理只会越来越强。
Not all industries have bargains, though, and not all sellers will be eager to settle for lower prices.
但并非所有行业都有廉价品，也并非所有卖家都急于用较低的价格出售。
Feel like the absence of a bachelor's degree on your resume is forcing you to settle for a second-rate job?
感到履历里没有学士学位迫使你满足于一份二流工作？
While I started out only using the auto setting, I refused to simply settle for that and not learn more.
我开始使用自动对焦功能。 我不想老用这个功能而不再学更多的技巧了。
Society tells us that since nobody's perfect, we should lower our standards and settle for what we can get.
社会教导我们说人无完人，所以我们得降低标准，随遇而安。
When it comes to creating and governing content, it's easy to forget what we want, or even worse, to settle for less.
当创作和管理内容时，我们很容易忘记什么是自己想要的，甚至更糟的是满足于眼前的成果。
Injuries had hindered his performance. Fisher did a reality check: Instead of excellence, he would settle for survival.
伤痛掩盖了他的成绩，他审视现实：既然不能追求战场上的卓绝，我只能满足于幸存下来。
The word 'good' is like the new 'bad.' Why settle for even 'smart' when you could instead call your child 'gifted'?
‘好’这个词现在相当于‘坏’，当你可以称你的孩子为‘天才’时你为什么要安于使用‘聪明’呢？
If you want to settle for the crumbs you are thrown and lap them up like a person who is starving, that's a choice.
如果你像饥饿的人舔到一点点面包屑那样获得满足，那是一种选择。
Their creators didn't settle for incremental change - slow, steady improvement - but instead radically changed the rules.
它们的创造者解决的不是增量变化——缓慢、稳步提高——而是从根本上改变了规则。
Their creators didn't settle for incremental change - slow, steady improvement - but instead radically changed the rules.
它们的创造者解决的不是增量变化——缓慢、稳步提高——而是从根本上改变了规则。
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