Instead of saying something like, "If we set an end-of-quarter deadline, we will never make it," say, "This is just my opinion, but I don't see how we will make that deadline."
与其说“如果我们设定了季度末的最后限期，我们将永远无法完成”这样的话，不如说：“仅代表个人看法，但我不知道我们怎样才能在截止日期前完成。”
We'll come back to these issues in a minute, but I'd like to say something about the theories of Robin Dunbar—an anthropologist at Oxford University.
我们稍后会回到这些议题上，但我想谈谈罗宾·邓巴的理论——他是牛津大学的人类学家。
Professor Clifford Nass of Stanford University added that constantly consulting your smartphone is also “an attempt to not have to think hard but feel like you are doing something”.
来自斯坦福大学的克利福德•纳斯教授表示，人们试图用不停查阅智能手机的手机的方式来体会不必过度思考也能感觉正在做事的感觉。
But 'if you have a loan in the bank or an outside investor, something like this is well worth considering,' he says.
不过“如果你在银行有贷款或者有外部投资者，那么这种做法就值得考虑，”他说。
It tastes like something that used to be an egg, but made some really horrible choices.
它尝起来像过去是鸡蛋的东西，但经过一番可怕的加工制成。
But when you are doing something like Gottlieb or Diebenkorn or Motherwell, they are trying to capture a yearning or an idea. They are addressing a much larger topic.
当你要做一些像戈特利布、德本肯恩、德本肯恩的作品，就要像他们一样试图捕捉到一个向往或念头并扩展到相当大的话题。
But, borrowing an idea from another part of biology, oncologists are coming to believe that most-possibly all-cancers involve stem cells, or something very like them.
不过通过借用生物学其他分支的理念，肿瘤学家逐渐相信几乎全部的癌症都与干细胞或者极其类似干细胞的组织有关。
There’s an old saying, and I don’t know where I first heard it, but it goes something like this: “If you want to make a lot of money, take the average incomes of your five closest friends.
有一则古老的名言，并且我忘记了是从哪听来的了，但是它描述了这样的事情：如果你想要赚很多钱，那么计算你最亲密的朋友的收入的平均值。
You may not be feeling like your divorce is an opportunity right now, but even if you didn't want it, you have learned something fundamental about yourself and the person you were married to.
现在你可能不会觉得你的离婚正是个机会，但是即使你不想这样，你已经从根本上了解你自己以及同你之前结婚的那个人。
Einstein was aware of this but somehow managed to convince himself that something like an explosion would always occur to throw off mass and prevent the formation of a black hole.
爱因斯坦很不喜欢这个结果，但是他说服了自己说这个过程会被一些爆发而中断从而阻止黑洞的形成。
Scientists would like to prevent something like that from happening in the future, but it would take time to figure out how to best knock an incoming asteroid off its collision course.
科学家希望能够防止今后发生类似的事件，但要弄清楚如何才能最好地阻断小行星碰撞地球的过程，还需要一定的时间。
She would like to move closer to her new job as a financial consultant, cutting the daily commute from an hour each way to something less onerous. But she cannot sell her home.
她希望能够迁就新的金融顾问工作，住在离单位近一些的地方，不要再每天上下班单程一小时这么辛苦，可是房子却无法脱手。
You know, you have images they are on an island or something, but when bodies and belongings appear you stop believing like you once did and you start to see the harsh reality.
之前我还幻想着他们可能降落在某个荒岛上或者别的什么地方，可是尸体和行李渐渐被发现时，我停止了那样的想法而开始去接受残酷的现实。
People like to feel as if they have an important role to play when a new application is rolled out: it's exciting to learn something new, but it's a little overwhelming at the same time.
在推出新的应用程序时，人们可能觉得自己像是要发挥很重要的作用：学习新事物总是令人兴奋，但同时也有点让人招架不住。
In Pakistan, your primary loyalty is to your biraderi, an untranslatable word, something like clan, but more visceral and entailing greater responsibility and connection.
在巴基斯坦，你最初的信仰就是你的 这个词没有翻译过来，意味和宗族相似，但与责任与沟通有着更本质更紧密的联系。
The Magic Tricycle sounds like something your four year old daughter might drive in the back yard, but it's actually an amazingly clever transforming motorcycle.
魔法算轮车，听上去像你的四岁女儿在后院儿开的车子，但它其实是非常智能的交通摩托车。
Sure, you could move the taskbar, but it felt like an afterthought – the gradients would be wrong, the Start menu had a few idiosyncrasies, and you’d feel like something of a second-class citizen.
你可以把任务栏竖起来，但这看上去像是后知后觉的设计——渐变色调是错的，开始菜单有些怪异，你会觉得像二等公民。
He went on, "Sometimes that role made me feel like a foreigner or an impostor, but there was something comforting about the sense of narrative."
作为一个叙述者，我常常觉得象一个外国人或外来者，但叙述的感觉确实让人很舒服。
Aunt Diana and Aunt Marilla were such ducks of aunts but an aunt like Aunt Mary Maria was something wholly new in Jem's experience.
戴安娜阿姨和玛丽拉阿姨都亲切极了，但像玛丽·玛利亚这样的阿姨他还从没见过呢。
Now, the link at the bottom of an article reads something like More Articles in Business ». Better, but still not great.
现在，文章下面的链接改叫“更多商业文章”。好了一点，但还不够好。
I like to have something I can rely on, but it is an important issue.
但是这确实是，一个非常重要的事情。
But you heard an odd laugh? You have heard that laugh before, I should think, or something like it?
可你听到了古怪的笑声？我想你以前听到过那笑声，或者类似的那种声音。
'MySpace doesn't set up something for you to create an introduction video, but kind of like a telephone answering machine, you assume a certain kind of voice and say certain things.'
MySpace网站上没有什么设置能让用户创建自我介绍视频内容，它就像一个电话语音应答机，用户用某种类型的声音说某些套话。
It's hard to say how much of an improvement [Hyper-V is compared to Virtual Server], but at this point we're seeing something like a 15 to 20 percent lift."...
很难说到底改进了多少，但是在这个问题上，我们看到了15—20%的提升。
An alternative would be to do something like take snippets of stories like the iPad app Flipboard does, but Sarver said he wasn't sure that was a great solution either given copyright implications.
另外一种选择是仿照iPad的应用程序Flipboard的做法，从股市中提取片段，但萨瓦尔认为考虑到版权的问题，这也不会是一个很好的解决办法。
A jQuery object is something like an array but comes with a ton of special jQuery functions.
jQuery对象类似于数组，但是它附带有大量特殊的jQuery函数。
And the iPhone is something entirely new: traditionally, a phone is an appliance, (it does a circumscribed set of things), but Apple's product is becoming PC-like in its range of applications.
iPhone是个全新的产物：传统上手机是一个具有固定功能的装置，但苹果的iPhone从应用程序上看象个人电脑。
Dr Wells said: 'You can imagine the pressure felt by an IVF patient who's struggled for years to achieve a pregnancy and then discovers they are pregnant but the baby has something like Down's.'
威尔斯博士说：“可以想见接受体外受精治疗的患者的压力，她们多年努力终于成功怀孕，却发现她们肚子里的孩子患有像唐氏症这样的遗传疾病。”
Is there an area of your life you'd like to measurably improve — such as your finances or relationships — but something seems to be holding you back?
你的生活，除了似乎阻碍你的事情外，还有想显著改善的地方吗？比如你的财务或是人际关系。
Is there an area of your life you'd like to measurably improve — such as your finances or relationships — but something seems to be holding you back?
你的生活，除了似乎阻碍你的事情外，还有想显著改善的地方吗？比如你的财务或是人际关系。
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