Felicity (to Sally) : I guess what I'm saying is this might all be a colossal mistake, as my dad would say, but on the other hand it may... maybe it'll save my life or something.
费利西蒂(对莎莉说):我猜我想要说的这个可能是个巨大的错误,如同我爸爸说的那样,但是另一方面也许……也许它可拯救我的生命或者别的什么。
What would it be like if women could have babies on their own?
如果女人可以独自生育孩子,那将会是一种什么样的情况呢?
And that could be good news: "If it changed how you saw the world, it would make the barrier higher for people to agree on what they are seeing and talk with each other," he said.
那可能是好消息:“如果它改变你如何看待这个世界,人们将在他们看到了什么和互相聊天的时候观点一致上有更大的障碍,”他说。
But if it did, what would the effect be on the major river systems of southern Asia?
但假如发生的话,它对南亚的主要河流系统将产生什么影响呢?
My faith is not in Noah's ark. But it would be an obvious physical confirmation based on what I believe.
我的信仰不止于诺亚方舟,但是它的确会在物质上成为一个我信仰的明确确证。
In general I'll allow that it would be, Ellen, 'she continued;' but what misery laid on Heathcliff could content me, unless I have a hand in it?
“一般情况我可以这样,艾伦。”她接着说,“可是除非我也下手,不然,不管希刺克厉夫遭到多大的不幸,我都不会满足。”
The best that this article has to offer are some insights into what maybe going on if your multi-threaded performance isn't quite what you hoped it would be.
当你的多线程应用的性能没有符合你的期望的时候,这篇文章能够为你提供了一些思考问题的启示。 而这就是此文最大的价值所在。
This may put a check on global warming by removing what would otherwise be a long-term constraint on the forest's ability to suck up carbon dioxide as it grows.
磷可能阻止了全球变暖,它使本来长期得不到生长的森林生长,使本来受限制的树木吸收二氧化碳的能力通过生长得到了释放。
That would be a depressing end to the story of habitable zones, if not for a series of amazing findings that life on Earth is not what everyone thought it was.
寻找地外生命的故事似乎又要惨淡收场,但一系列关于地球上生命的惊人发现告诉我们它们和人们一直以来的认为有所不同。
So I had the idea of doing a book on something and not really sure what it would be.
所以我当时也有了做一本电子书的想法,但还没有想清楚做哪方面。
It was based on two axioms. Firstly, there should be no central ownership or control - no institution which would decide who could join or what the network could be used for.
基于两个公理,首先,不应该存在拥有者或控制中心,没有任何机构可以将决定谁可以加入或者网络的用途。
Maybe I should write a play about what I was doing and copyright it. It certainly would be good for a few scenes on a soap opera.
也许我应该把我正在做的事情写成一个剧本并取得版权,作为一出肥皂剧里面的几幕肯定是不错的。
Their boss, based on what he knows about people, thought it would be higher.
而他们的老板,则根据自己对人的了解,认为这个数字会更高一些。
It would be better for each person on the team to reflect on his own actions and on what he's learned, then share that with the rest of the team.
团队中每人都最好反思他自己的工作以及他吸取的经验和教训,然后与团队中其他成员分享反思的结果。
The agency did not say this was a bad thing-policymakers need to have the most critical information flagged up-but it thinks it would be better to explain more clearly what is going on.
调查部门没有说宣传最糟糕的可能性有什么不对,因为决策者需要科学家向他们强调最关键的信息,但是如果能够向大众解释清楚到底是怎么回事就最好了。
What would your energy and attention be focused on instead? (Go ahead and give it a try).
那么你的精力和注意力会放在什么样的事情上呢?
Especially in voluntary, private law systems, it would be clear that the judges — who gave expert guidance on what the law says on a matter — are distinct from the people enforcing the law.
尤其是在自愿性质的私人法庭体系里,很明显法官——根据法律条文对一个案件作出专业判断——和执行法律的人不是一伙人。
This is exactly what you would expect at night and on weekends, but for a busy database in the middle of the day, it is not likely to be true.
这在晚间或周末确实是您所期望的,但是对于一天中间繁忙的数据库,这就很可能不对了。
I realized there were certain things I had not yet experienced in life, one of which was what it would be like to live like a bum on the streets.
我意识到,生活中有些东西我还没有体验过,其中之一就是做一个沿街乞讨的流浪汉滋味如何。
So you can see, if it's spinning on its own axis in this direction we'd call it spin up, where as this way it would be what we call spin down.
你们可以看到,如果它绕自己的轴朝这个方向转,我们就说它是自旋朝上,这个方向我们叫它自旋朝下。
What would it be like to sit with it, even for a few minutes a day, to wait for an image - anything that you could hold in your mind or write on paper?
如果你哪怕每天只花几分钟,坐在那里,与之相处,等待一副图景——有什么是你可以想象或记下来的吗?
If you only had a single statement to pass on to others summarizing the most vital lesson to be drawn from your work, what would it be?
如果你只能向别人用一句话来总结你工作中最重要的经验教训,它会是什么?
What we'd be looking for,I take it, would be some kind of behavior on our part that calls out for explanation.
我认为,我们在寻找的东西,应该是某种我们需要解释的行为。
As The Economist went to press, it still was not clear on what terms America's debt limit would be raised, and for how long.
当经济学人出版时,美国债务界限将升到什么水平,持续多长依然不明朗。
What we didn't do is trying to impose the argument, we would have made because it may be have been a better one, on the argument that we were trying to analyze.
我们没有强加论点,我们本可以这么做,因为这可能变得更好,我们试图分析的论点上。
That would appear to be a valid concern but Lloyds Group say this is not what is happening and it does not accept any kind of referral fee for putting lawyers on its panel.
这看起来是有凭有据的担忧但是劳合社称这种事没发生而且自己不接受任何转介费。
That would appear to be a valid concern but Lloyds Group say this is not what is happening and it does not accept any kind of referral fee for putting lawyers on its panel.
这看起来是有凭有据的担忧但是劳合社称这种事没发生而且自己不接受任何转介费。
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