这绝对是一种全新的体验!Suzzane将介绍三种传统食物,并告诉你数百年前它们对美洲印第安人意味着什么。
It is surely a new experience! Suzzane will make an introduction of three traditional foods and tell you what they meant to the American Indians hundreds of years ago.
为了激励你,这里是前几期发布之后读者提交的问题:我妈妈都没问我想做什么,就给我报名了夏令营活动。
To inspire (激励) you, here are reader-submitted questions we've published in previous issues: My mom signs me up for camps and activities without asking what I want to do.
尽管没有人知道它是什么东西,但人们都知道怎样称呼它:“卓帕王子”,根据的是那个著名的神秘吸血兽“卓帕卡·布拉”(chupacabra,是世界第三大著名怪兽,前两位分别是大脚怪和尼斯湖水怪)。
Even though no one knew what it was, they knew what to call it: "Prince chupa," after the mysterious vampire chupacabra (the world's best-known monster after Bigfoot and Nessie).
为什么会有人花钱——甚至花很多钱——去买一些普通物品,仅仅因为它的前度主人是个名人?
Why would anyone spend money, often a lot of money, on a common object just because somebody famous once owned it?
这里的问题在于,焦点团体说的话可能是他们认为调查员希望听到的。不过比这更大的问题是:他们不记得前一分钟看到了什么。
Besides the problem of focus group subjects saying what they think the interviewer wants to hear, a bigger problem is that they don't remember what they saw a minute ago.
而如果消费文化的研究倒回到几十年前,我就还要在什么是网络广告文化这样的问题上冥思苦想。
While studies of consumer culture go back decades, I'm having a hard time surfacing what is known about the culture of web advertising.
詹姆斯·怀亚特是拉什大学医疗中心的睡眠医生 ,他说:“睡觉前一个小时人们在做什么活动及这些活动能否预测第二天的结果。”
Dr James Wyatt, Sleep Clinician, Rush University medical Center: "What are the activities people are doing in that hour beforebefore bedtime, and do those those predict next-day consequences?
暗能的概念是十年前创造出来的,为了解释为什么宇宙的扩张自大爆炸开始后是加速的,而不是慢下来。
The idea of dark energy was dreamed up ten years ago, to explain why the expansion of the universe that began with the Big Bang seems to be accelerating, rather than slowing down.
是什么使得,一天前或者一年前甚至十年前的我和现在的我是一样的呢?
What is it that makes me the same person as I was a day ago or a year ago or ten years ago?
在讨论什么是公共基础事件前,首先确定一下我们所说的事件的含义。
Before we explore what a Common Base event is, let's talk about what we mean by an event.
王凤琴在退休前是一名描图员。对于垃圾分类,她只是从电视上听过这个词,但也不明白是什么。
Before retiring, Wang's job was drawing blueprints for machines and she had only heard about "garbage sorting" from TV, having no idea what it meant.
但是,这么说吧,在我们前两个月的试交往中,我几乎总是知道我要的是什么,而他简直是不愿意做出决断。
But, let's just say, our two months of pseudo-dating was a lot of me knowing what I wanted and him simply not wanting to make a decision.
“我不记得发生了什么”,霍尔斯特德说,他是被派驻到当时的沃什湾麦科德空军基地的前战斗控制员。
"I don't remember what happened," said Halsted, a former combat controller who was stationed at then-McChord Air Force Base, Wash.
这些排名前几的兴趣可以教会你什么是创造性,显示你的艺术本领。
These top hobbies teach you to be creative and show your artistic flair.
如果你在一个维基站读什么东西,我不希望这个东西是一年前,一天前,或者几分钟前写就的成为一个问题。
If you're reading something in a wiki, I didn't want it to matter to you whether it was written a year ago, a day ago, or just a minute ago.
本文的关注的是有关如何成为专家,在结束前,我想说说当你真正成为专家后意味着什么。
The focus of this article is on becoming an expert. But before concluding, I want to say a word about what happens when you finally achieve your aim.
第一步是控制怨气,而不是让怨气控制你,弄清自己怨什么,并且把怨气达到毒害程度前释放出来。
The first step to controlling your anger, rather than having your anger control you, is to recognize your resentments and to express them before they reach a toxic level.
他说,这座宿舍是15年前盖的,结构有问题。可他不愿指责什么。
He said the dorm, built 15 years ago, was structurally deficient, but he was reluctant to assign blame.
问题的真相是,为什么他们不能帮警方在连环杀手再次犯案前,将其捉获。 --这是为什么他们只能榨取受害人家庭的感情(很多时候是金钱)。
The real question is why they can't help police catch serial killers before they strike again -- and why they exploit the emotions (and sometimes money) of bereaved families.
如果你是那种不满足于处于前20%的人,那你要达到什么样的程度?
And if you're the type who's not happy with being in the top 20%, then how much further do you need to go?
中世纪欧洲用餐前几乎没有什么仪式,所谓礼仪不过是在用手指撕肉时不要让手弄得太油腻。
Europeans in the middle ages had had little ceremony when it came to food. Their manners consisted of making sure they didn't get too greasy when tearing meat with their fingers.
我是一个前报纸编辑,从那份工作中我学到的是野蛮地编辑文章(这不是讽刺我的博客帖子为什么没有这么做)。
I’m a former newspaper editor, and one of the things I learned was to edit brutally (no sarcastic comments about why I don’t do that with my blog posts).
一年前你是做什么的?
Roy的建议是当你开会结束的时候,并问每一个人他们下一步要做的事情是什么,确保他们的回复是什么时候前做完什么事情。
Roy suggests that when you have a meeting, end it by asking people what they're actions are, and make sure they answer in the form "I will do X by y".
在三十年前,环绕着这个山谷的坡是三个冰川,但是居民们说,在过去的十年间,冰川消失了,除了光秃秃的岩石,什么也没有剩下。
The slopes surrounding the village were cloaked with three glaciers 30 years ago, but villagers say that over the past decade the glaciers have vanished, leaving nothing but bare rock.
吸血鬼乌贼是一种活化石,这就是说三百多万年前恐龙还没出现的时候,它就现身了,自从那时起它几乎没有什么变化。
Vampyroteuthis infernalis is a type of living fossil, meaning that it has seen very little change since it first appeared, before dinosaurs, about 300 million years ago.
没有猎人帽,没有烟斗,福尔摩斯由一位美国人扮演(RobertDowneyJr),盖·里奇执导(他的上一部巨片是十年前了)-还有什么问题?
There's no deerstalker and no pipe, Holmes is played by an American (Robert Downey Jr), and the director is Guy Ritchie (a decade on from his last great film) - what could possibly go wrong?
比如,在新用户发布一个问题前,他们必须做一个问答测试,回答什么是Quora上合乎风格的问题。
Before new users can post a question, for example, they must take a quiz on what makes an "appropriate" style for a question on Quora.
一个简单的测试(谢谢Debbie !)是,在对他们谈话前看看是否你需要去引起爱人注意去倾听你说的是什么。
A simple test (thanks, Debbie!) is to see if you need to get your partner's attention before talking for them to hear what you say.
一个简单的测试(谢谢Debbie !)是,在对他们谈话前看看是否你需要去引起爱人注意去倾听你说的是什么。
A simple test (thanks, Debbie!) is to see if you need to get your partner's attention before talking for them to hear what you say.
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