这孩子能认字，但考试时却一塌糊涂。
这鞋刚开始穿时可能显得紧，但皮子的伸展性很好。
The shoes may seem tight at first, but the leather has plenty of give in it.
做这实验时温度保持不变，但压力可变。
The temperature remained constant while pressure was a variable in the experiment.
当亚历克斯讲完时，他得到了礼貌的掌声，但这跟他希望得到的热情回应差得远了。
When Alex was finished, he received polite applauses, but hardly the warm response he had hoped for.
但当父母们每天工作8小时，一年工作240天，这意味着一些不同的东西。
But when parents work an eight-hour day and a 240-day year, it means something different.
妈妈说她只是想成为像我一样的人，但当我试图集中注意力工作时，这让我抓狂。
Mum says she's just trying to be like me but it drives me crazy when I'm trying to fix my attention on my work.
在炎热的夏天开车时，你可能会在路上看到闪闪发光的水，但科学告诉我们，这其实只是海市蜃楼，是空气加热造成的幻觉。
When driving in a car on a hot summer day, you may see what looks like shimmering water on the road, which, as science tells us, is really just a mirage, an illusion caused by the heating of the air.
他说，我们往往把忽视了自己在培养孩子心智时所扮演的角色这个问题归咎于电视，但这并不是电视造成的。
We tend to blame TV, he says, for problems it doesn't really cause, overlooking our own roles in shaping children's minds.
开始时可能很困难，需要做一些计划——跑鞋放在前门，午餐在前一天晚上做好，雨天打伞，热天戴帽子，但这当然值得尝试。
It can be tough to begin and takes a little planning—running shoes by the front door, lunches made the night before, umbrellas on rainy days and hats on hot ones—but it's certainly worth trying.
您虽然可以指导您网站的用户输入所有数字时都采取美国格式，但这真的是最佳答案吗？
You could instruct users of your website to type all Numbers in us format, but is that really the best answer?
把你所有的塑料存储容器换成陶瓷的，玻璃的，或者不锈钢的你会浪费你一点时间。但这绝对是值得的。
This takes a little while to switch all of your plastic storage containers over to ceramic, glass or stainless steel but its definitely worthwhile.
但这秘密在于：当我们放弃尝试所有事情时，生活会变的更美好。
But the secret is: life is better when we don't try to do everything.
但这的确是个坏主意，因为您现在的问题甚至比刚开始时更大！
This is a really bad idea, because now you have an even larger problem than when you started!
在自恋的父母教养下或找个自恋狂结婚会让你也一样“废”，但这仅仅从定义上讲，很多自恋狂生活时没有意识到自己对他人的伤害。
Growing up with a narcissistic parent or marrying one can be disabling, but, almost by definition, many narcissists go through life without realizing the harm they are doing to others.
但这两起危机又提出了疑问：科技公司面对系统故障时，怎样确保其提供信息的速度与质量。
The two crises have also raised questions about the speed and quality of information provided by tech companies when confronted with systems failures.
但这远不是铁律，例如，当人们感到悲哀或者厌恶时，颧骨肌肉有时也会同样收缩。
But this is far from an iron law. The same muscles sometimes contract when people are feeling sadness or disgust, for example.
但这无法解释，为啥当采用其他方式操作这个巨大的防喷器时，它仍然不工作。
This does not explain why the great valves failed even when they were activated by other means.
这些看上去显得挺简单，但这做起来或许没那么容易，尤其是当我们的身体处于不佳状态时。
The instructions may seem simple, but this may not be easy especially when we’re not feeling well.
尽管搜索引擎常常在处理复杂页面时被堵塞，但这并不表明它不成熟。
Although search engines usually choke on processing complicated pages, that does not mean they are not sophisticated.
在压力很大时，重温我们孩提时代看过的童话是很舒服的事，但这并不能使他们变得更真实多少。
It is very comforting in times of stress to go back to the fairy tales we heard as children but it doesn't make them less false.
之前的研究表明，胎儿能对声适应并且胎儿有24小时的短期记忆，但这研究进一步检查了这些记忆能持续多久。
Previous research has shown that fetuses can habituate to sounds and that the fetus has a short-term memory of 24-hours, but this study further examined how long these memories can last.
或许这会使劳动力市场更有活力，但这确实不是决策者在制定提高自有住房策略时的初衷。
Perhaps that made Labour markets more mobile, but it was certainly not what policymakers were aiming for when they set out to increase home ownership.
有人认为失业率的升高引发了更高的福利金支付，但这并不是其中的原因：去年同一时段的失业率比现在还高。
An increase in joblessness, leading to higher benefit payments, is not the cause: the unemployment rate is lower than it was a year ago.
但这曾经很普遍，尤其在欧洲列强瓜分新世界版图时。
But they were once common, especially when European powers were jostling for land in the New World.
但这曾经很普遍，尤其在欧洲列强瓜分新世界版图时。
But they were once common, especially when European powers were jostling for land in the New World.
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