It also allows us to reflect on the year that has passed, as we think of those who are far away or no longer with us.
圣诞树让我们回首过去的一年，于是我们想到了那些远离和已经离开我们的人。
So long as we think of them as isolated changes and miss this larger significance, we cannot design a coherent, effective response to them.
如果我们认为这些变化是彼此孤立的，而看不到更深层面的影响，我们就不能够制定一个有效的连贯的措施来应对这些变化。
Well, it's not memorized as we think of it and you may have had music lessons along the way and your teacher and your mother said "Go memorize your piece." It's not memorized like that.
这完全不是想我们猜想的那样是靠死记硬背的,也许你上音乐课的时候,你的老师或和你妈妈会说,记下这一段,而这段音乐不是像那样靠死记硬背的
In sports and many areas of life, we think of failures as evidence of something we could have done better.
在体育运动和生活的许多领域，我们认为失败是我们本可以做得更好的佐证。
The nation that we now think of as one of the most technologically advanced entered the 19th century having "abandoned the wheel".
我们现在认为的科技最发达的其中一个国家在进入19世纪时就“放弃了车轮”。
He liked to show small underwater creatures, displaying what seemed like familiar human characteristics—what we think of as unique to humans.
他喜欢展示小型水下生物，展现它们与人类相似的特征——那些我们认为人类独有的特征。
To think of geniuses and the gifted as having uniquely different brains is only reasonable if we accept that each human brain is uniquely different.
只有当我们承认每个人的大脑都是独特地不同时，认为天才和有天赋就是拥有独一无二地与众不同的大脑才是合理的。
We tend to think of the Depression as a time when families pulled together to survive huge job losses.
我们往往认为，在大萧条时期，家庭成员齐心协力，共同面对失业带来的巨大损失。
Though we might think of film as an essentially visual experience, we really cannot afford to underestimate the importance of film sound.
虽然我们可能认为电影本质上是一种视觉体验，但我们真的不能低估电影音效的重要性。
The process seems so normal that we sometimes think of it as a natural part of growing up, but it is not.
这个过程看起来很正常，我们有时会认为这是自然成长过程中的一部分，但事实并非如此。
Golf, you know we don't think of it as a contact sport, but there's still lots of injuries you can get, correct?
高尔夫，你知道我们认为它不是一项需要身体接触的运动，但仍会造成许多损伤，对吧？
Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others.
此外，我们倾向于认为自己是友好的，但我们更喜欢与他人保持至少3英尺或一臂远的距离。
Now, we tend to think of crocodiles as kind of solitary, hiding out in a swamp, kind of mysterious creatures.
现在，我们倾向于认为鳄鱼是一种孤独的，隐藏在沼泽里的，有点神秘的生物。
We think of this as an old person's migration, but it created many jobs for the young in construction and health care, not to mention tourism, retail and restaurants.
我们认为这是老年人的迁移，但它在建筑和医疗保健领域就为年轻人创造了许多就业机会，更不用说在旅游业、零售业和餐饮业中了。
What we think of as the golden age of Greece was virtually at an end during the lifetime of Aristotle.
我们所知的希腊黄金时期，其实是在亚里士多德的生年已走到末端。
We think of you as one of the family.
我们把你看作家中的一员。
We often think of drawing as something that takes inborn talent, but this kind of thinking stems from our misclassification of drawing as, primarily, an art form rather than a tool for learning.
我们经常认为绘画需要天赋，但这种想法源于我们的错误分类——绘画主要是一种艺术形式，而不是一种学习工具。
It supports what we might almost think of as conventional wisdom.
它支持了我们几乎可以认为是传统智慧的观点。
If we are well trained, the underwater part of things is not really as harsh as you might think.
如果我们受到良好的训练，水下部分的事情可能就不会真的像你想像的那么严酷。
Not all catfish are created equal: we tend to think of catfish as slimy bottom feeders, but that is only true for a small percentage of species.
并非所有的鲶鱼都是生来平等的：我们倾向于认为鲶鱼是黏糊糊的食底泥动物，但那只适用于一小部分物种。
Opera Lyrica or lyric opera refers to what we think of as opera, the musical drama.
OperaLyrica或者抒情歌剧，指的就是我们常看作歌剧的音乐剧。
We mistakenly think of "good" drawings as those which work as recreations of the real world, as realistic illusions.
我们错误地认为“好的”绘画是对真实世界的再现，是现实的幻觉。
We often think of failure as something bad.
我们经常认为失败是坏事。
We think of this letter as a chance that may forever change our kids' life.
我们把这封信看作一个可能永远改变我们孩子人生的机会。
Think of something as seemingly benign as the cellphone—we have microfinance and text-based social networking at one end of the spectrum, and improvised explosive devices at the other.
想想类似手机这种看似无害的东西吧——一方面，手机可以用来进行小额信贷和基于文本的社交，但另一方面，它也可以成为临时制作的爆炸装置。
Think of something as seemingly benign as the cellphone—we have microfinance and text-based social networking at one end of the spectrum, and improvised explosive devices at the other.
想想类似手机这种看似无害的东西吧——一方面，手机可以用来进行小额信贷和基于文本的社交，但另一方面，它也可以成为临时制作的爆炸装置。
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