It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it.
一个几乎普遍的真理是，工作上提升得越高，我们最初的那些工作技能实际上就用得越少。
Several writers have posited the idea of a universal consciousness.
几个作者都假设一种普遍意识的思想。
Smiling is apparently a universal sign of friendliness and approval.
微笑显然是友好和认可的普遍标志。
No kidding, it's not easy to get a universal instrument these days.
说真的，现在要买台万能仪可不容易。
People don't speak one universal language or even a handful.
人们不会说一种甚至几种通用语言。
People don't speak one universal language, or even a handful.
人们没有说一种通用的语言，甚至不同的几种都没有。
Crying is a nearly universal sign of grief, though some mourners report that, despite genuine sorrow, they cannot shed tears—sometimes even for years after their loved one has gone.
哭泣几乎是悲伤的普遍标志，但一些哀悼者表示，尽管他们确实感到悲伤，却流不出眼泪——有时甚至在他们所爱的人去世多年之后也是如此。
The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
将自己家做的饭摆上餐桌的想法是非常普遍的。
You may think that gift-giving is a universal custom.
你可能认为送礼是一种普遍的习俗。
So you may think that gift-giving is a universal custom.
所以你可能认为送礼是一种普遍的习俗。
American artist Stephen Heigh sought to create a "universal image" with Jedi.
美国艺术家斯蒂芬·海尔力求用绝地武士来创作一幅“宇宙形象”。
Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle.
在麻省理工学院教授城市设计课程的布伦特·瑞安说，松岛的案例证明了一个普遍的原则。
It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.
预计未来五年将筹集4.1亿美元，其中大部分将用于该市的一通用学前教育项目。
Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.
即使如此，SimpliSafe声称它的系统一直在进化，而且各个系统之间有细微的差别，这意味着没有一个通用的神奇公式可以破解它。
Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.
即使他们可以做到，但SimpliSafe声称其系统一直在升级，而且各系统之间有细微差别，这意味着，不存在通用的神奇公式可以破解该系统。
The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record.
手机制造业计划推出一款通用充电器，这将作为驱使自己改善先前的不环保记录的一部分。
The dove is a universal symbol of peace.
鸽子是和平的共同象征。
Education should be a universal right and not a privilege.
教育应当是全民的权利而非某部分人特别享有的。
The Universal Product Code symbol, also known as the 'bar code', is printed on products for sale and contains information that a computer can read.
通用产品代码符号，亦称“条形码”，印在出售的商品上，其中含有计算机能识别的信息。
While cheek-kissing for Latin Americans is also a universal greeting form, it does not require such a high degree of relational closeness.
虽然亲吻脸颊对拉丁美洲人来说也是一种普遍的问候方式，但它并不需要如此高的关系亲密度。
Baring the teeth in a hostile way, as noted by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, may be a universal sign of anger.
正如查尔斯达尔文在19世纪指出的那样，怀有敌意地露出牙齿可能是人们表现愤怒情绪的通用表情。
Combine these higher thought processes with our hardwired danger-detection systems, and you get a near-universal human phenomenon: worry.
把这些高级思维过程与我们硬连线的风险探测系统结合起来，你就会得到一个几乎普遍的人类现象：担忧。
If you could find such a thing, that would be the universal final good, or truly the ultimate purpose or goal for all human beings.
如果你能找到这样一件事，那它应该是这个世界的终极善举，或者说是人类的终极目标。
There's a good explanation for the phenomenon in the book The Formula: The Universal Law of Success by Albert Laszlo Barabasi.
阿尔伯特·拉兹洛·巴拉巴斯（Albert Laszlo Barabasi）所著的《公式：成功的普遍法则》（the Formula: the UniversalLaw of Success）一书对这一现象作出了很好的解释。
While only a small portion of the world's languages are anumeric or nearly anumeric, they demonstrate that number words are not a human universal.
虽然世界上只有一小部分语言是没有或几乎没有数词的，但它们表明，数词并非是全人类通用的。
Traditional marriage has evolved from a near-universal ritual to a luxury for the educated and affluent.
传统婚姻已经从一种近乎普遍的仪式演变为受过良好教育和富裕阶层的奢侈品。
"The morning after I opened in Chekhov's The Sea Gull," Ms. Stuart remembered, "I signed a seven-year contract with Universal."
“当我打开契诃夫的《海鸥》的那个早晨，”斯图尔特女士回忆道，“我与环球公司签订了七年的合约。”
20th Century Fox forged the musical and a great deal of prestige biographies, while Universal specialized in classic horror movies.
20世纪的福克斯打造了音乐剧和大量的声望传记，而环球则专注于经典恐怖电影。
In 1938, at the government-convened National Health Conference, organized labor emerged as a major proponent of legislation to guarantee universal health care in the United States.
1938年，在政府召开的全国卫生会议上，有组织的劳工成为立法的主要支持者，以保证美国的全民医疗保健。
Smile is a universal language.
微笑是全世界通用的语言。
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