她表示:“这就是所谓的成功地区,人们走路时不得不迈过(无家可归者的)身体。”不过,华盛顿市中心的许多地方也是这样。
"This is supposed to be the arrived neighbourhood and people have to walk over [homeless] bodies," she says, though the same is true in many parts of central Washington.
现在人们在网络上找寻聊伴,这就是所谓的网恋。
People are now able to find their partners on the Internet. This is called online dating.
这就是广告人所谓的推媒(pushmedium),由公司来选择何时让人们看到广告。
This is what advertisers call a push medium, i.e. you choose when people see it.
一旦食可果腹,居有定所,人们就想要更高层次的东西。这就是19世纪五六十年代在该报工作的经济学家Fred Hirsch所谓的“地位商品”。
Once they have filled their bellies and put a roof over their heads, people want more of what Fred Hirsch, an economist who worked on this newspaper in the 1950s and 1960s, called “positional goods”.
人们通常会寻找能够确认他们已经存在的信念的东西,而忽略了那些和他们所认为的相反的事情。这就是所谓的期望确认。
People typically look for things that confirm their existing beliefs and ignore information that contradicts what they already think. This is known as expectation confirmation.
这就是所谓的“熟悉路线效应”:人们往往会低估在熟悉的线路上所花费的时间。
This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route.
人们监禁多年却未接受审讯,或是遭受背后冷枪,又或是因坏血病被送去北极林木营等死,这就是所谓的消除不确定因素。
People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements.
人们监禁多年却未接受审讯,或是遭受背后冷枪,又或是因坏血病被送去北极林木营等死,这就是所谓的消除不确定因素。
People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements.
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