The reason for the interview is twofold: we want to find out what he can tell us, plus we also want to find out what condition he is in.
这一采访的原因有两个：我们既想看看他能告诉我们些什么，也想弄清他的处境如何。
One of the best examples of this new form of teaching application is Futaba, game in which up to four children try to recognize a spinning object, and then identify what it is.
关于这种新形式的教学应用最好的例子之一是Futaba，在这个游戏中，四个孩子尝试去识别一个旋转的物体，然后识别它是什么。
What this means is that, in the telling, your story is to be cut up into chunks: different parts of the story are to appear in different places in the report.
这意味着，在讲述过程中，你的故事将被分割成几大块：故事的不同部分将出现在报告的不同位置。
What appears to the naked eye to be glowing is actually a superposition of different lines of distinct frequency. So, this is quantized.
出现在肉眼面前的光亮，事实上是频率不同的光线的叠加。所以，这是量子化的。
No matter what it is called, this place is still different. It possesses a magical ability to weave itself into the dreamland of all those close to it.
无论它叫什么名字，这里依然是个与众不同的地方。它拥有一种神奇的能力，能把自己编织进所有靠近者的梦乡。
A block of space usually is for a day, and there is enough space for you to write down what you need to do on that certain day.
一个大块的空页面通常就写一天的内容，有足够的空间让你写下那天你需要做什么。
You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: Who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.
例如，你可以通过判定文本涉及何种类型的语言情景，来推测文章的语境：是谁在说话，对谁说话，何时何地。
Playful math to numbers is what poetry to words, what music to sounds, or what art is to visual perception.
好玩的数学对于数字，就像诗对于文字，音乐对于声音，或者是美术作品对于视觉感知。
Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of what a novelist is doing is not to read, but to write; to make your own experiment with the dangers and difficulties of words.
也许，要懂得作者写作过程中的细微末节，最简便的办法不是读而是写，亲自动手对字句的艰难险阻进行试验。
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."
《浅薄：互联网如何毒化了我们的大脑》一书的作者尼古拉斯·卡尔写道：“网络被设计成一个中断系统，一台用来分散注意力的机器。”
What this little wood ant is planning to do with this microchip is unkonwn, but how appropriate to say that he appears to have a scientific interest.
还不知道这只小木蚁打算用这种微芯片做什么，不过，说它对科学感兴趣是多么恰当。
Invention is momentous and fundamental to people what the soul is vital and significant to us.
对于人们来说，发明是至关重要、必不可少的，正如灵魂对人们来说是不可或缺且意义重大的一样。
The good news is that there is growing agreement on what is wrong with the teaching of history and what needs to be done to fix it.
好消息是，对于历史教学存在的问题，以及需要采取什么措施来解决这个问题，人们的意见越来越一致。
What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another three billion people.
新的问题是迫切需要扩大这项技术的规模，以容纳另外30亿人。
If you think life is wonderful and expect it to stay that way, then you may have a good chance of living to a ripe old age, at least that is what the findings of a new study suggest.
如果你认为生活是美好的，并且希望它一直如此，那么你很有可能会活到高龄，至少一项新研究的结论表明如此。
Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of what a novelist is doing is not to read, but to write.
也许理解小说家所做工作的最快方法不是阅读，而是写作。
I have learned to defend myself against what is hard; without knowing it, I have also learned to defend myself against what is soft and what should be easy.
我学会了在困难面前保护自己；在不知不觉中，我也学会了保护自己远离细腻事物和简单的事情。
To what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on this occasion is for the historian to decide.
胡克在这种情况下所采取的策略在多大程度上应该受到责备，这要由历史学家来决定。
One of the things that businesses and indeed Government organizations often fail to do is to really see what is happening from the consumer's perspective.
企业和政府机构经常做不到的一件事就是真正从消费者的角度去看待正在发生的事情。
If Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what is to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Russians or the Iranians?
如果苹果公司被迫为美国执法机构破解了一部 iPhone以协助案件调查的话，那俄国或者伊朗也提出同样要求，苹果公司又该如何拒绝呢？
Science is exactly what we need more of when it comes to GM foods, which is why I was happy to see Nature devote a special series of articles to the GM food controversy.
在转基因食品方面，科学恰恰更为我们所需，所以我很高兴看到《自然》杂志专门发表了一系列关于转基因食品争议的文章。
The program has been a great success, according to Smart Machines spokesman Robert Frost Frost says, "What is interesting to me is the children's reaction to Bill."
智能机器公司的发言人罗伯特·弗罗斯特说，这个项目取得了巨大的成功。弗罗斯特说：“我对于孩子们对比尔的反应很感兴趣。”
What the economics tells us is that it's probably cheaper to avoid climate change—to avoid the risk—than it is to deal with the likely consequences.
经济学告诉我们，避免气候变化，即避免风险的支出也许比处理可能发生的后果所用的费用要少。
It is true that when wearing beautiful and suitable clothes, we may try to be better in thought, speech and behavior to match what is on the inside to what is on the outside.
诚然，当我们穿上漂亮、合适的衣服时，可能会在思想上、言行上努力做到更好，使内在的东西与外在的东西相匹配。
What traffic teaches us is that reckless and uncontrolled change is as likely to harm us as it is to benefit us, and that thoughtful regulation is necessary for a better future.
交通教会我们的是，不计后果、不受控制的变化既可能造福我们，也可能伤害我们，而考虑周到的监管对更美好的未来而言非常必要。
The marketing strategy in response to this consumer demand has gone beyond articulating what is in a product, to labeling what is NOT in the food.
作为对此种消费者需求的回应，这种营销策略已不只局限于说明产品中有什么，还标明了食品中“没有”什么。
Just as a famous saying goes, "Reading is to success what water is to fish."
正如谚语所说：“读书对于成功，就像水对于鱼一样。”
The trunk of an elephant is to him what the neck is to other animals.
大象的鼻子就像是其他动物的脖子。
Satan's spear is to the tallest pine what the tallest pine is to a little, bitty wand.
撒旦之矛之于最高的松树，犹如最高的松树之于小小的魔杖。
Speech recognition enables them to understand what a person is saying, and natural language processing is used to work out a response.
语音识别功能使他们能够理解人所说的话，而自然语言处理功能用于做出回应。
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