大多数讨论都集中在目前需要做什么,因为我们已从安全问题逐渐转到具有挑战性的经济问题上。
Most of the discussion was on what needed to be done now as we transitioned from the security issues to the challenging economic issues.
我参加过一些研究会议,会上有人问一位科学家,他对继续做某项实验的可行性有什么看法。
I've attended research conferences where a scientist has been asked what he thinks about the advisability of continuing a certain experiment.
正如我所说,多样性很重要,至于我不喜欢什么,那就是检查图表和表格。
As I said, variety is important, and as for what I don't like, it has to be the checking of charts and tables.
正如我所说的,多样性很重要,至于我不喜欢什么,那就是检查图表和表格。
As I said, variety is important and as for what I don't like, it has to be the checking of charts and tables.
创造性的方法始于这样一个命题:没有什么是表面上的那样。
The creative approach begins with the proposition that nothing is as it appears.
下次当你看到一个说产品的效率可以提高20%的广告,想想这些数量与相关性的准则,问问自己你会得出什么推论。
Next time you see an advertisement saying some product could be up to 20% more effective, think of these maxims of quantity and relevance, and ask yourself what inferences you are being led to draw.
作者认为,是什么原因导致了美国农业部膳食指南忽视可持续性?
What may account for the neglect of sustainability in the USDA's Dietary Guidelines according to the author?
是什么让19世纪60年代末的采矿业安全性更高?
年轻人还想问点什么,智者拦住了他,说:“当我们谈论今天的重要性时,我们已经浪费了很多时间。”
The young man still wanted to ask something, but the wise man stopped him and said, "When we are talking about the importance of today, we have wasted a lot of it."
如果有什么是很可能的,你的意思是你可以信赖它,所以可能性意味着可信赖度。
If something is probable, you mean that you can trust it, so probability means trustworthiness.
我们必须警惕这些信号,以同情和关爱来回应,这些信号是标志性特征,说明在任何地方、在所有地方做女人意味着什么。
We must be alert to these signals and respond with the compassion and care that are hallmark traits of what it means to be a woman, anywhere, everywhere.
这个实验强调了道德的重要性:如果没有道德,一个机器人怎么能决定拯救谁,或者什么对人类最有利,尤其是当它不能计算生存几率的时候?
The experiment highlights the importance of morality: without it, how can a robot decide whom to save or what's best for humanity, especially if it can't calculate survival odds?
可以理解的是,考虑到相关医疗养老金的挑战性,人们担心这对公共财政意味着什么。
Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges.
“没有什么是永远存在的!”然而,在这个陈述中,我们想到的是人工制造的技术性物体和产品,它们在使用过程中受到自然磨损。
"Nothing lives for ever!" However, in this statement we think of artificially produced, technical objects, products which are subjected to natural wear and tear during use.
你必须找出那些颜料里有什么,了解它们的组成,这需要实验室的工作——真正的探测性工作——也就是光谱学。
You've got to find out what's in those pigments, learn their composition, and that requires lab work—detective work really—in a word, Spectroscopy.
这就是为什么重读的行为如此丰富而具有变革性。
That's what makes the act of rereading so rich and transformative.
无论涉及到什么活动,创新都是人类思想发展多样性的一种自然愿望。
Innovation is a natural desire of the human mind to develop variety, whatever activity is involved.
至于什么样的知识主张是基础性的,这就是这个问题特别有趣的地方,事实上这取决于你问的是哪个哲学家。
Now, as to what kinds of knowledge claims are foundational, well, that's where this gets particularly interesting, in fact it sort of depends on which philosopher you ask.
这份来自生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台(IPBES)的报告明确指出了什么是利害攸关的以及什么需要改变。
The report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is clear on what's at stake and what needs to change.
这就是为什么全国性药品名录还未出台的原因,也是药品价格持续走高的原因。
That's one reason why the idea of a national list hasn't gone anywhere while drug costs keep rising fast.
这不仅仅是在取笑莎莉,而是在说我们学校位置比较偏僻,不是在什么世界性的大都市。
It wasn't just poking fun at Sally, but the whole idea that our school is sort of rural, and you know, not cosmopolitan.
从我所说的形成土壤多样性的原因来看,你们可能会认为森林动态——即树木发生什么变化——和土壤多样性之间的关系是单向的。
From what I have been saying about the causes of pedodiversity, you might assume that the relationship between forest dynamics, what happens to the trees, and pedodiversity is a one-way street.
它们确实都非常重要,这就是为什么我认为这是一个冒犯性的举动。
They are indeed both really important, which is why I think of this as an offdensive move.
可惜,这意味着对于一次性的噪音没有什么办法,比如有人尝试学习吹小号产生的噪音。
This unfortunately means that there is not much that can be done about one-off noise, like someone trying to learn to play a trumpet.
对任何特定领域的工作的批判性判断都没有什么价值,除非它来自该领域的专家。
Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field.
人们在面临一个具有挑战性的问题时,作者建议应该做什么?
What does the author suggest one do when faced with a challenging problem?
在中国,没有什么酒比中国白酒更具有代表性,在某种程度上,中国酒文化就是中国白酒文化。
In China, no alcohol is more representative than Chinese liquor and at some point, Chinese alcohol culture is Chinese liquor culture.
这可能就是另一个解释,解释了为什么公司似乎在加强它们对设备实用性的讨论。
That could be another explanation for why companies seem to be strengthening their talk of the practicality of their devices.
不管形成山脉的原因是什么,一旦陆地上升到海平面以上,它就会受到毁灭性的力量的影响。
Whatever the reason for mountain formation, as soon as land rises above sea level it is subjected to destructive forces.
但是这种结合了不对称、解剖学和偶然性的进化机制并不能提供一个充分的解释来说明为什么右利手应该成为优势。
But this evolutionary mechanism combining dissymmetry, anatomy, and chance does not provide an adequate explanation of why right-handedness should have become predominant.
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