A piece of stone found on a Dutch beach suggests that our extinct human relatives, known as Neanderthals, were cleverer than previously thought.
在荷兰海滩上发现的一块石头表明，我们已经灭绝的人类亲戚尼安德特人比我们之前认为的更聪明。
Easy enough, I thought. Piece of cake.
这倒简单，我想，小菜一碟。
But I also wear eyeliner every day and thought it would be easier to have one less piece of makeup to put on.
但我也每天戴着眼线，我想少戴上一件化妆品应该会更轻松些。
Sometimes, people are pleasantly surprised to learn that an old vase or toy or piece of jewelry is worth hundreds of times more than they thought it was.
有时，物主惊喜地获知，一个老花瓶或玩具或首饰的价值是他们认为的数百倍以上。
I told her I had. She proceeded to tell me that she taught journalism at Northwestern and that she thought it was the quintessential opinion piece.
她告诉我她在西北大学教授新闻学，在她看来，那是一篇精辟之作。
A few days ago I was walking in the street when I saw a piece of dirty rope. I thought nobody wanted it and so I picked it up and took it home.
几天前我在街上走的时候，看到一根脏绳子，以为没人要了，便捡起来带了回家。
'Aha!' he thought, 'this is a piece of luck!
“啊哈！”他想，“真走运！”
At this point, they both thought that this was going to be a piece of cake, and answered the question with ease.
“请解释原子的结构，本题5分。” 对于这一题，他俩都认为只是小菜一碟，非常轻松的就回答出来了。
“When colleagues told me my piece was chosen, I was too surprised to believe it, ” Xia said. “I thought it was a joke.”
夏达说：“当同事们告诉我我的作品被选中时，我简直都不敢相信，我以为他们是在和我开玩笑。”
“When colleagues told me my piece was chosen, I was too surprised to believe it,” Xia said. “I thought it was a joke.”
夏达说：“当同事们告诉我我的作品被选中时，我简直都不敢相信，我以为他们是在和 我开玩笑。”
They are thought up in an office building and given life on a piece of paper.
他们在办公大楼中被构思出来，然后在一张纸上被赋予生命。
Jackson said he thought his best piece of work was getting rid of the Bank of the United States. He said he had saved the people from a monopoly of a few rich men.
杰克逊说，他认为他最出色的一项工作是摆脱了美利坚银行，他说，他把人民从少数有钱人的垄断中解救出来。
Now it's writing down everything - every cloud, every piece of dirt, every little fleeting thought, anything that might be useful.
现在，你的记忆会把一切感知的信息都写下来，每一块浮云，每一块泥土，每一点点稍纵即逝的想法，任何可能有用的东西都不放过。
If you thought that guy was climbing up to take a closer look, take a closer look yourself - he's part of a very clever piece of artistry.
如果你认为这个家伙正在爬楼近距离地欣赏一下墙上的壁画，那么你再仔细看看吧，他其实是这幅壁画的一部分，这是街头壁画画家的高超艺术设计。
The discovery adds another piece to the growing body of evidence that humans, much like the rest of the animal kingdom, know more from their noses than previously thought.
过去人们一直以为鼻子最可靠，后来越来越觉得不对：鼻子其实也不太靠谱，人体本身，正如动物界的其他动物一样，似乎比鼻子更靠谱。 这个科研成果正好为这一感觉添砖加瓦。
This is clearly not a standard piece of hardware, and is the sort of thing we would have never thought to look for.
这显然不是这一硬件的标准功能，也出乎我们的意料。
A few days ago I thought the watermelon should be irrigated. When I was on the way to the field I saw a piece of dirty rope by the pine.
几天前我在街上走的时候，看到一根脏绳子，以为没人要了，便捡起来带了回家。
When I was on the way to the field I saw a piece of dirty rope by the pine. I thought nobody wanted it and so I picked it up and took it home.
几天前我在街上走的时候，看到一根脏绳子，以为没人要了，便捡起来带了回家。
We wish to close this piece with an understanding of the power of the human thought form and vision.
我们希望带着对人类思想形态和想像之力量的理解，来结束此篇。
"How I wish I could comfort him", thought the little bush, "but my thorns will only piece him more." the man stumbled off and did not return.
“但愿我能够安慰他，”小树心里想：“但是我身上的刺只会更加的剌痛他。”这人踉踉跄跄地走开，再也没有回来。
Recently she purchased a pocket-size reading machine that takes photographs of text and then reads the words aloud, and she said she thought of vision like that, as “just another piece of technology.”
近来她购买一个口袋大小的阅读器，它以图片的形式储存文本并能大声诵读文章，她说这样一来，视力不过是“另一种科技”。
Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five—just one.
每一件成功的非虚构作品都应留给读者一个全新的富有激发性的观点。不是两个观点，或者五个，就一个就够了。
I knew this guy many years ago and I thought about him today as I sat down to write this piece for you, dear class of 2013.
亲爱的2013届毕业生，我认识这家伙很多年了，今天我坐下来给你们写这篇文章的时候，突然想到了他。
I have finally worked this piece up to something that I actually like and thought it would be good to hear a new perspective on it.
我决定这首乐曲是因为它能激发出一些我喜爱的东西并且希望能在大师课上听到一些新的观点。
And at that time, I thought it was so easy, it was like a piece of cake.
那个时候我想，这么简单，简直是小菜儿一碟。
And at that time, I thought it was so easy, it was like a piece of cake.
那个时候我想，这么简单，简直是小菜儿一碟。
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