The holidays are not the time to guess or assume what your partner is thinking. It's the time to over-communicate.
假期不是用来猜测或论断你配偶的想法的，而是用来深入交谈的。
The clamour to give children better school dinners is all very well, but future mothers need to be aware that pregnancy is not the time to over-indulge on sugary-fatty treats.
但是以后的母亲需要注意到妊娠期间并不是她们在高糖和高脂肪饮食上过渡放纵自己的时候。
Sometimes original art works appear questionable or inauthentic because they've had so many restorers add touch-up layers to cover up damage, damage from the paint having deteriorated over time.
有时候艺术品真迹看起来是赝品，是因为很多修护人员添加了很多层保护膜，以覆盖油画上的损伤；而随着时间的推移，画作上损坏的地方已经恶化了。
It would have been better to have thinned the trees over several winters rather than all at one time.
当初要是分几个冬天来疏剪树木，会比一次性疏剪要更好些。
It took me a very long time to get over the shock of her death.
我过了很长时间才从她去世的震惊中恢复过来。
Over time, wives were less likely to use destructive strategies or withdraw, while husbands' use of these behaviors stayed the same through the years.
随着时间的推移，妻子不太可能使用破坏性的策略或退缩，而丈夫对这些行为的使用多年来保持不变。
It's been shaped by constraints over vast stretches of time, all of which comes down to the fact that the best foraging strategy for beavers isn't the one that yields the most food or wood.
它是由长时间的约束形成的，都指向一个事实，就是对海狸来说最好的觅食策略不是产出最多食物或木材。
This approach has led over time to a fall in smoking with numbers having roughly halved since the 1970s.
随着时间的推移，这种方法已经使吸烟人数有所下降——自20世纪70年代以来，吸烟人数几乎减少了一半。
Over the course of time, we've become looser in applying the term "mental disorder" to the expectable aches and pains and sufferings of everyday life.
随着时间的推移，我们将“精神障碍”这一术语用于日常生活中可预期的疼痛、痛苦和折磨的界限愈加宽松了。
The need to run the railways on time meant that local time was abolished and clocks showed the same time all over the country.
准时运行铁路的需求意味着废除地方时间，统一全国各地的时间。
"By following individuals over time," Salthouse said, "we gain insight in cognition changes, and may possibly discover ways to slow the rate of decline."
索尔特豪斯说：“随着时间的推移，我们通过跟踪个体对认知变化有了更深刻的认识，并可能找到延缓认知速度下降的方法。”
The point of a style upgrade isn't to become more vain or to spend more time fussing over what to wear.
提升时尚品味并不意味着变得更虚荣，也不是花更多时间纠结于穿什么。
The second option also involved going over to the shelf but, this time, removing the book and then subtly holding onto it for just an extra moment before placing it in the customer's hands.
第二种选择是走到书架前，但是这次，把书拿开，然后稍微多拿一会儿，再把书放到顾客手中。
You'd have to know what pigments he used, in other words, what ingredients he used to make different colors of paint, because the ingredients used in paints and binding agents have changed over time.
你要知道他使用了什么颜料，换句话说，他用了什么原料来制造不同颜色的油漆，因为油漆中使用的原料和结合剂都随着时间的推移而改变。
Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that expand over time and let in more outside air.
1939年以前建造的房屋每平方英尺消耗的能源比2000年以后建造的房屋多50%，这主要是由于微小的裂缝随着时间的推移而扩大，更多的外部空气进入了裂缝。
NUS statistics show that over 40% of students are forced to work during term time and the figure increases to 90% during vacating periods.
新加坡国立大学的统计数字显示，超过40%的学生在学期间被迫工作，而在放假期间，这一数字增加到90%。
Ecologists use the term "succession" to refer to the changes that happen in plant communities and ecosystems over time.
生态学家使用“演替”一词来指植物群落和生态系统随时间发生的变化。
Over time, people began to use the word "restaurant" to refer to a place selling soup rather than the soup itself.
随着时间的推移，人们开始用“餐馆”这个词来指代卖汤的地方，而不是汤本身。
The grandfather had been busy in his little shop, merely glancing over at the child from time to time.
爷爷在他的小店里一直很忙，只是不时地看看那孩子。
In such studies, researchers would need to follow groups of children with and without music lessons over a long period of time—even if the assignments are not completely random.
在此类研究中，研究人员需要在很长一段时间内对上音乐课和未上音乐课的不同小组的儿童进行追踪——即使任务并不是完全随机的。
Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news.
过去一年里，我们的深夜新闻节目增加了全国新闻的播放时间，减少天气预报和地方新闻的播放时间。
She rushed outside in time to see a half-mile wide mud and sand thundering down the hill toward them, knocking over hundreds of trees.
她及时跑了出去，看到半英里宽的泥沙从山上轰隆隆地向他们冲来，撞翻了几百棵树。
Around 70% of the people felt it was important to spend time in the garden, and over 50% of these described gardening as the most enjoyable thing .
大约70%的人认为花时间在花园里很重要，超过50%的人认为园艺是最令人愉快的事情。
This was the first time I really listened to jazz, and it bowled me over.
那是我人生第一次真真正正地听爵士乐﹐我深深的被它所震撼著。
Over time, the costs of processing go down because as organizations learn how to do things better, they become more efficient.
随着时间的推移，处理成本会降低，因为随着组织学会如何把事情做得更好，它们会变得更有效率。
Class is over. It's time to clean the classroom.
下课了。是我们打扫教室的时候了。
Peter only just came in time to prevent the goat from falling down over the very edge.
彼得刚好及时赶到，防止山羊从悬崖边上掉下去。
Dear Annie: One of my goals in the coming year is to spend more time with my wife and kids, whom I've badly neglected over the past few months because of work.
亲爱的安妮：我明年的目标之一就是想花更多的时间和我的妻子和小孩呆在一起，而过去的几个月我因为工作严重忽略了他们。
Another cause is that the proportion of people who are trying to lose weight has been increasing over time.
另一个原因是，随着时间的推移，试图减肥的人群比例一直在增加。
According to Davis' scheme, the shoreline is being extended in a seaward direction because of the "land-building" role of mangroves, which, by trapping sediments over time, extend the shore.
根据戴维斯的计划，由于红树林的“陆地建设”作用，随着时间的推移，通过捕获沉积物，海岸线向海的方向延伸。
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