我很欣慰地得知,“酷”的定义比我过去认为的要宽泛得多。
I'm relieved to know that "cool" has a much broader definition than what I used to think.
孩子们过去认为胡萝卜是吃饭时妈妈让他们吃的东西。
Kids used to think of carrots as something that their mom put on their plates at dinner.
我们过去认为,左脑控制你的思维,而右脑控制你的心。
We used to think that the left brain controlled your thinking and that the right brain controlled your heart.
我过去认为锻炼方式中,跑步比远足好,因为前者花的时间少。
I used to think running was a better form of exercise than hiking because it took less time.
神经学家过去认为这些粘糊糊的胶质只是用来把神经元黏合在一起。
Neuroscientists used to think glia were simply the sticky stuff that holds neurons together.
科恩先生过去认为美国的通货膨胀是受了全球化的潜在影响。
Mr Kohn used to argue that globalisation had a muted impact on American inflation.
科学家们过去认为南极洲上大规模臭氧层年际变化会掩盖住微小的趋势。
Scientists thought large, wholly natural, year-to-year variations in Antarctic ozone would obscure any small upward trend.
我过去认为这有点老生常谈,但是现在,说这句话可以影响两个人的行为。
I used to think this was a bit corny, but now I know that the very act of saying this phrase does impact both people.
中国、印度这些我们过去认为可能用之不竭的劳工市场,事实上已显著收紧。
Labor markets which we previously thought were inexhaustible, like China and India, have actually tightened up quite dramatically.
人们过去认为我们只在幼儿早期的一小段时间里才有相对可塑性。
It used to be thought we only had a short period of relative plasticity in early childhood.
过去十年间,一项又一项研究表明,动物表现出过去认为只有人类才具有的能力。
In study after study over the past decade, they've shown abilities previously thought to exist only in humans.
科学家说过去认为永冻土解冻会排放二氧化碳和甲烷,氧化亚氮则不会释放出来。
The scientists said that past studies had reckoned that carbon dioxide and methane were released by a thaw of permafrost while nitrous oxide stayed locked up.
他说,这“在前几年是想像不到的事,人们过去认为网络不是卖快消食品的好场所。”
That was “something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. People didn’t think this would be the right space to be selling grocery-type products, ” he said.
除此之外,过去认为当男人结婚后,妻子基本就不找工作了,所以就多了另一张嘴要养。
In addition to that, it used to be that when a man got married, it was literally another mouth to feed as the wife rarely sought employment.
我们是不是又要发现它与性别也不是像过去认为的那样有关,女性患者并非如我们想象的那样凤毛麟角呢?
Are we about to find that it is not as strongly linked to gender as has been supposed, that there are more autistic women out there than we imagine?
比如有人在做同样的论点,比如我不相信鲸鱼是哺乳动物,我过去认为鲸鱼是鱼,鲸鱼显然是鱼,不是吗?
Say somebody was making the same argument, say I didn't believe whales were mammals, I thought whales are fish, whales are obviously fish aren't they?
科学家过去认为在SanAndreas断层南部每250年到450年会发生一次巨型地震,而现在他们觉得平均88年就会发生一次。
Scientists used to say that enormous quakes occur every 250-450 years along the southern San Andreas. They now think the average is every 88 years.
Hertenstein博士说:“我们过去认为,身体接触只是用以加强交流情绪”,现在它变成了“一种比我们过去想象的更加不同的信号系统。”
“We used to think that touch only served to intensify communicated emotions,” Dr. Hertenstein said. Now it turns out to be “a much more differentiated signaling system than we had imagined.”
当股票市场处于萧条期,利润率几乎所剩无几,债券的收益率有史以来达到最低点时,投资者们对过去认为的任何有可能的回报资金都不会在抱有幻想。
With stock markets in the doldrums, interest rates cut to almost nothing, and bond yields at record lows, investors were desperate for any kind of meaningful return on their money.
“我不认为在过去约25年里有政府妥善地处理过这个问题。”—“我赞同这一观点。”
"I don't think a government has properly done it for about the past twenty-five years."—"I'd go along with that."
一些人需要面对伤痕累累的过去;另一些人认为最好不管它。
Some people need to confront a traumatic past; others find it better to leave it alone.
一项新研究表明,鱼的记忆力相比我们过去所认为的要好很多。
A new study has found that fish have much better memories than we used to think.
在下面列出的杰出女性中,你认为谁是过去100年中最重要的女性?
Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?
人们旅行去看外国的建筑、食物、民族服装,因为他们认为这些在过去与现在不同。
People traveled to see the buildings, the food, the national dresses in foreign countries because they thought they would not be the same as those of their own countries in the past.
我认为这比过去一两年的总体经济形势要严峻得多。
I think it's much severe than what you have experienced in the past year or two for the general economic situation.
科学家们认为,在过去的一个世纪里,我们已经让世界上超过一半的食物种类消失了。
Scientists believe that over the past century, we have allowed more than half of the world's food varieties to disappear.
在过去,她的小说被认为是遵循奥古斯都风格,与浪漫主义精神背道而驰。
In the past her novels were thought to follow an Augustan mode at odds with the Romantic ethos.
虽然我必须承认,我认为他在过去的几周对我隐瞒这个秘密的时候,变得更有趣了。
Though I must say, I think he's been having even more fun keeping the secret from me in the past few weeks.
你认为现在人们比过去更不愿意自己做饭吗?
Do you think people are less willing to cook meals by themselves these days compared to the past?
有趣的是,在过去,龙虾只提供给囚犯,因为它们被认为是穷人的食物。
Interestingly, in the past, lobsters were only served to prisoners as they were considered as a poor man's food.
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