Time how long it takes you to answer the questions.

记一下自己回答这些问题所需的时间。

《牛津词典》

Then the answer hit me. It had been staring me in the face ever since Lullington.

之后我突然想到了这个答案。自路林顿起这答案就一直明摆在我面前。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Try to paraphrase the question before you answer it.

先试解释一下问题再作回答。

《牛津词典》

"No," you say,"it just can't be true! Who told you?" Comes the answer, "I got it by the grapevine."

VOA: special.2009.02.22

The semiotician's answer to this is it never could have happened simply as an act of agency, as an act of will.

符号学者这样解释,这不是一己之力的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is what you profess. Well, the thesis is also, another way to think of it, an answer to a question.

它就是你要表达的东西，这个论文也是，另一种思考它的方式，关于一个问题的答案。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Nor does it answer the question of how to decide whose interests such tinkering should serve.

ECONOMIST: Global warming

Nor will it answer questions about activities that have little rationale except for bomb-building.

ECONOMIST: And still no end to Iran��s nuclear story

That answer, the let-me-think-about-it answer, that answer led to action.

CNN: Transcript: White House Deputy Counsel Mills' statement