其中一个使“他是否已经去世了”这个问题自己得到解决的方法是,开辟一个地方让人们回馈消息。
One way to automate the ‘Is he dead’ problem is to have a place where people can report it.
假如我们在大街上看到一个陌生人从身边经过,看到他非常悲痛的表情,我们马上就知道了他刚刚得到父亲去世的消息。
A stranger passes by us in the street with all the marks of the deepest affliction; and we are immediately told that he has just received the news of the death of his father.
比方说,我认识的一位杂志编辑在一个周三的中午得到约稿作者的消息说他正在写的实时性很强的文章将会在她吃完午饭回去前发到邮箱。
A magazine editor I know, for instance, once had a writer tell her at noon on a Wednesday that the time-sensitive piece he was working on would be in her in-box by the time she got back from lunch.
两年以后,在得到委员会的批准后,他将这幢建筑的内部掏空,然后在一个网站上发布了将其改建成两居室和三居室公寓的消息。
Two years later, after receiving a go-ahead from the commission, he gutted the building and posted a sign on the site announcing its future two - and three-bedroom condominiums.
信还没有拆开,在那个瞬间他明白了一个道理:为什么有的人会因为突然得到不寻常的好消息而死去。
He staggered into his room and sat down on the bed, the envelope still unopened, and in that moment came understanding to him how people suddenly fall dead upon receipt of extraordinarily good news.
他得到一个有希望的新公司的消息。
这家报纸援引一位没有透露姓名的驻北京大使馆南韩外交官的话说,他从中国的一个消息来源得到上述消息。
The report cited an unnamed South Korean diplomat in Beijing who said he got the information from a Chinese source.
他说:“我们看到这个店好似一个实验室,行业正在迅速改变,但好消息是,我们得到了越来越多的好作品。”
"We see the Boulder store as a laboratory," he says. "the industry is changing so rapidly, but the good news is that we're getting more and more products."
布什福布顺藤摸瓜开始寻找其它线索。很快,他从赏金猎人公会里的一个老朋友那儿得到一条可靠的消息。这条消息把他带到庞姆广场下的一间破旧公寓。
Soon, he was sniffing out a solid lead from an old buddy in the Bounty Hunters Guild, which led to a run-down flat beneath Pom Plaza registered to a Dug named Manoca.
他得到了一个非常令人激动的消息。
亚瑟·福门在德克萨斯州的休斯顿的一个癌症中心工作,大多数来他这儿看病的病人注定要得到不幸的消息。
Most of the patients who come to see Arthur Forman at a Cancer Center in Houston, Texas are destined to get bad news.
据消息人士说,家庭使用这种药物是个不适当并且不顾后果的行为。如果一个医生帮助杰克逊得到这种药物,他或她可能因杀人罪被起诉。
Sources say the drug is so inappropriate and reckless for home use, if a doctor facilitated it for Jackson, he or she could be prosecuted for manslaughter.
据消息人士说,家庭使用这种药物是个不适当并且不顾后果的行为。如果一个医生帮助杰克逊得到这种药物,他或她可能因杀人罪被起诉。
Sources say the drug is so inappropriate and reckless for home use, if a doctor facilitated it for Jackson, he or she could be prosecuted for manslaughter.
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