范诺登自言自语时嘴边常挂着“灵魂”这个词儿,起初我一听到这个词便觉得好笑。
Now this word soul, which pops up frequently in Van Norden's soliloquies, used to have a droll effect upon me at first.
当我前几天在新闻广播节目上听到“裸婚”一词时,我有点不快,但很快就意识到这个词和淫秽没有关系。
I was a little dismayed when I heard the word "naked wedding" on a news broadcast the other day, but then understood it was definitely not anything obscene.
当我前几天在新闻广播节目上听到“裸婚”一词时,我有点不快,但很快就意识到这个词和淫秽没有关系。
Naked wedding I was a little dismayed when I heard the word "naked wedding" on a news broadcast the other day, but then understood it was definitely not anything obscene.
那些错误地想到“睡觉”这个词也在单子上的儿童,在做涉及到这个词的复杂合作工作中,比其他没有产生幻觉的儿童要做得好的多。
Those who falsely remembered that sleep was also on the list did better on a complex associative task involving that word than those who did not generate the illusion.
所有的校对人员都没有发现这个错误,但是五年后,一名编辑注意到这个词没有词源,然后他开始溯源并最终将这个词从词典中去除。
No proofreader caught the error, but five years later an editor noticed the word had no etymology and began the investigation that led to the word's being banished.
在一次派对上,他让一名皇家空军(RoyalAir Force)飞行员一听到“德国”这个词,就把灯具上的灯泡取下来,放到花盆里。
At a party, he instructed a Royal Air Force pilot to remove the bulb from a light fitting and place it in a flowerpot, on hearing the word Germany.
也许, “女演员”这个词出于人们的使用偏好会进一步淡出现代用语,颁奖组织由此将不得不认识到男演员和女演员是同样的职业。
Perhaps, as the term “actress” falls further out of favor, theaward-granting organizations will be forced to acknowledge that male and femaleactors do indeed have the same occupation.
本文涉及到“智慧”这个词,不过是想表达,无论哪种品质都可以帮助人们在一个广阔多变的环境下作出正确的决定。
When I use the word "wisdom" in this essay, I mean no more than whatever collection of qualities helps people make the right choice in a wide variety of situations.
你也许注意到,我在本文中用了很多次“感受”这个词。
该食品公司了解到,他们可以打这个词的“自然”上的任何产品和更多的人会购买它,即使没有什么自然的。
The food companies have learned that they can slap the word "natural" on any product and more people will buy it, even if there's nothing natural about it.
在不存在使人丧失理智的“免费”这个词的时候,大部分人都突然意识到20元礼券更合算,并打算按照最大优惠原则来购买产品。
Yet without the rational-mind-confusing power of the word 'free', most people suddenly realise that the $20 deal is superior, and decide to pay out for a better return.
工具这个词连同有些应用似乎有些互斥,除非你在定义中把工具和娱乐大致关联到一起。
The term tool in conjunction with some applications seems rather mutually exclusive unless you broadly associate tools for entertainment into your definition.
我们也很喜欢XTP这个词,因为它表现了客户可能涉及到的业务挑战。
We like XTP as well, because it represents a business challenge that customers can relate to.
一听到“瑜伽”这个词,你是否就会联想到一个人将自己的腿扭成椒盐卷饼那样呢?
When you hear the word "yoga," do you think of a person with his legs twisted up like a pretzel?
1846年,这个词有记录以来首次出现在印刷材料中,当时它的意思是雪橇或马车底下的挡板,用来防止马蹄把污水和泥巴溅到车夫身上。
In 1846, when the word first appeared in the printed record a dashboard was a barrier between the riders of a sleigh or wagon and the flying mud and water coming from a horse's hooves.
考虑到该工具的正式名称过长,我们简略地将其称为ADIEU,这个词在法语中是再见的意思,正好符合我们的目标:让用户“和复杂繁琐说再见”。
Given the length of the tool's official name, we informally call it ADIEU, the French word for goodbye, in keeping with our goal to say "goodbye to complexity" for users.
听到这个单词时可能大多数人会想到X战警是恶棍,但这个词的来源要追溯到前殖民时期。
While most people think of the X-Men villain when they hear this word, it actually dates back to pre-colonial times.
让语言学家们高兴的是,一旦给一个词语加个后缀“主义”,这个词便从意义,等级到细微差别马上升到一个新水准。
Add "ism" to a word and, to the delight of philologists, you bring out a whole new level of meaning, distinction and nuance.
可以确信,将现代有关上帝的各种研究统一到一点不再是先前的“上帝是谁”这个问题,而是人们该如何正确的使用这个词。
Four Options. What unites the various contemporary approaches to the problem of God is the conviction that the primary question has become not what God is, but how men are justified in using the word.
到16世纪,这个词变成了吸血鬼之意。
通常,我们听到suit(套装)这个词,会认为是搭配好的成套外衣和裤子。 suit的这种用法大约可追溯到600年前,尽管当时穿的套装(suit)跟现在的可是风格迥异。
Usually we think of a matching jacket and pants when we hear the word suit and that use of suit goes back almost 600 years, although the suits worn then were of quite a different style.
这个词可以追溯到男性虚荣心尤其明显的18世纪末期,那是个花花公子的时代。
The saying can be traced to male vanity, particularly apparent in the late eighteenth century, the period of the dandy.
luggage(行李)这个词在1597年第一次出现,最早的引证之一出自莎士比亚的《亨利四世》,在书中,哈尔王子让他的朋友“高贵地把行李扛到背上”。
The word "luggage" appears first in 1597 and one of the first citations is Shakespeare 'Henry IV where the King's son Hal asks his friend to.
了解到即使是Edison也必须对其发明进行“调试debug”,软件开发人员可能会觉得有所慰藉并受到鼓舞Edison没有用过debug这个词。
If you're a software developer, perhaps you can find some comfort and inspiration knowing that even Edison had to "debug" his inventions. Edison never used the term debug.
它有“智力损伤”的意思,不仅衍生到dumb的这两层意思,还衍生到了deaf这个词。
It had a sense of “mental impairment” that evolved not only into these two meanings of dumb, but into the word deaf as well.
例如,对于爱情,来自女性63%的搜索推特中包含这个词,在2009年11月至2010年2月收集到的样本数据为基础。
For example, search for love, and 63 percent of tweets that contain that word were from women, based on the sample data collected between November 2009 and February 2010.
到六十年代时,由于在冲浪文化中被广泛运用,“Dude”这个词显得更加酷意横生,而到70年代时,Dude的意思就是指:一男的。
In the sixties, the term attracted more coolness as it was embraced by surf culture, and by the seventies, a dude was just a guy.
到六十年代时,由于在冲浪文化中被广泛运用,“Dude”这个词显得更加酷意横生,而到70年代时,Dude的意思就是指:一男的。
In the sixties, the term attracted more coolness as it was embraced by surf culture, and by the seventies, a dude was just a guy.
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