His team has found that those who read a lot of fiction tend to show greater empathy on standard tests, but the same is not true of avid nonfiction fans.
他的团队发现，那些读了很多小说的人往往在标准测试中表现出更强的同情心，但同样的情况并不适用于狂热的非小说书迷。
So buildings, pipes, roads and so on tend to buckle and crack.
所以建筑，管道，路等等往往都会弯曲破裂。
People who achieve high scores on the SAT tend to earn high college GPAs in the future.
学术能力倾向考试的高分得主往往之后也能取得优秀的大学平均分。
These organisms tend to have big bodies, are long-lived, and spend relatively little effort each year on reproduction.
这些生物往往体型较大、寿命较长，并且每年在繁殖上花费的精力相对较少。
Advertisements featuring professional athletes and their endorsed products tend to get impressive exposure on TV, radio, in print and online.
以职业运动员和他们的代言产品为特色的广告往往会在电视、广播、印刷品和网络上得到令人印象深刻的曝光。
I tend to have a different answer, depending on the family.
我倾向根据不同的家庭给出一个不同的答案。
Men tend to put on weight in middle age.
男人到了中年体重往往会增加。
The girls in a class tend to have a civilizing influence on the boys.
班上的女生往往能让男生文雅起来。
Things aren't really that bad—she does tend to pile it on.
事情并没有那么糟糕，她的确有意夸张。
When our brains switch between being focused and unfocused on a task, they tend to be more efficient.
当我们的大脑在专注和不专注之间转换时，它们往往更有效率。
Because of the great weight pressing down on them, these layers tend to fold downward at weak spots, and this finally causes an actual break in the crust.
由于巨大的重量向下压岩层，使它趋于在它的薄弱处向下折叠，这最终导致地壳的实质断裂。
This practice, however, can lead to suboptimal results, as decision-makers tend to focus only on easily quantifiable factors.
然而，这种做法可能导致不理想的结果，因为决策者往往只关注容易量化的因素。
Home cooking seems to be in decline as more and more people tend to order their food on apps.
随着越来越多的人倾向于在应用程序上订购食物，自己在家做饭的人越来越少。
They're also more likely to encourage boys to work through problems on their own while they tend to step in and help girls who struggle with a problem.
他们更倾向于鼓励男孩自己解决问题，而对于女孩他们往往会插手并帮助解决问题。
When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act similarly, on the job at least.
当人们长得很像时，他们的思维、说话和行为的方式也会很相似，至少在工作中是这样。
Assuming you're lost in an area humans tend to frequently, look for the marks we leave on the landscape.
假设你在人类经常迷路的地方丢失了方向，请寻找我们在周围地形上留下的痕迹。
The more affluent children end up in college and on the way to the middle class, while working-class children tend to struggle.
更富裕的孩子们最终上了大学，走上了中产阶级的道路，而工薪阶层的孩子们往往会艰难挣扎。
Studies in restaurants show that the tips left by customers who pay their bill in cash tend to be larger when the bill is presented on a tray that bears a credit-card logo.
对餐馆的研究表明，当账单被放在印有信用卡标志的托盘上时，用现金付账的顾客往往会留下更多的小费。
Researchers in the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise, whether at school or on their own, tend to have higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests.
荷兰的研究人员报告说，无论是那些在学校还是自己做锻炼较多的孩子，他们的平均成绩都比较高，在标准化考试中的成绩也比较好。
This is particularly true for trees in the middle and upper latitudes, which tend to attain greater heights on ridges, whereas in the tropics the trees reach their greater heights in the valleys.
这种情况在中高纬度地区的树木中尤其常见，这些树木往往在山脊上长得更高；而热带地区的树木则往往在山谷中会长得更高。
Right-handed soldiers tend to be wounded on the left.
惯用右手的士兵往往是左边受伤。
Less colorful birds and animals that inhabit the rain forest tend to rely on forms of signaling other than the visual, particularly over long distances.
热带雨林中居住的不那么鲜艳的鸟类和动物，往往依赖于视觉以外的信号形式，尤其是长距离的信号。
Less colorful birds and animals that inhabit the rain forest tend to rely on other forms of signaling other than the visual, particularly over long distances.
生活在雨林中、且色彩并不那么亮丽的鸟类和动物往往依赖于视觉信号以外的其他信号形式，尤其是在传递长途信号的情况下。
The taste, texture, and feel of food are what we tend to focus on, but most important are the slight puffs of air as we chew our food—what scientists call "retronasal smell".
食物的味道、质地和口感往往是我们关注的重点，但最重要的是我们咀嚼食物时产生的轻微的气息，科学家们称之为“鼻后气味”。
As with many gender gaps, differences in emotionality tend to be small, inconsistent, and dependent on the situation.
与许多性别差异一样，情感上的差异往往微小、不一致，而且取决于具体情况。
He argues that there are certain abilities that tend to be more sequestered for males, and other abilities that are more sequestered, more focused on females.
他主张，某些能力对男性来说更倾向隐蔽，另一些能力对于女性来说更隐蔽、集中。
That is, generally, younger people tend to outnumber older people on the front end of a technological shift.
也就是说，在技术变革的前沿，年轻人的数量通常会超过老年人。
Human brains tend to dwell on negative events.
人类的大脑倾向于专注负面事件。
Children tend to rely on concerned school friends to keep in touch with school work.
孩子们倾向于依靠有关的学校朋友来保持与学校工作的联系。
Animals tend to be active or inactive depending on the position of the sun or moon.
动物是否活跃取决于太阳或月亮的方位。
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