一天12小时地面对电脑可能不太健康,但是对于我们大多数人而言——不论是不是《魔兽世界》的玩家——现代生活就是这个样子。
Spending 12 hours a day at a computer might be unhealthy, but for most of us – Warcraft players or not – this is how modern life works.
那些热衷看娱乐节目的人可能会认为世界上大多数人都拥有巨大的财富和美貌。
Those who watch primarily entertainment shows may come to believe that most people in the world possess great wealth and good looks.
那里是世界上大多数人口居住的地方,也是未来几十年人口增长最多的地方。
It is there that most of the world's population lives and it is there the population growth over the next decades will be the greatest.
在大多数世界杯比赛中,主队或东道国球队的表现通常比大多数人预期的要好。
In most World Cups, the home team, or the team from the host country usually plays better than most people expect.
对这个世界的大多数人来说,每天都是一个审判日,他们每天都要为他们的审判承担后果,这你知道吗?
Are you aware that, for most people in this world, every day is a judgment day, and they pay the consequences for their judgments every day?
世界上大多数人还是称之为电话,是因为移动设备就是作为语音通讯设备而诞生的。
Most of the world still calls it a phone because the mobile device started its life as a voice communication device.
这项技术改变了世界——的确,它塑造了我们大多数人成长的文化环境。
This technology changed the world - indeed, it shaped the cultural environment in which most of us grew up.
不过,霍夫曼也在他的书中雄辩地指出,世界上绝大多数人都是这样旅行的。
But as Hoffman details so eloquently in his book, this is how most of the world's population travels.
要是真让戈尔给说中了,并且也许他就是正确的话,时间流逝之快就确实超出了全世界大多数人的想象了。
If Mr Gore should happen to be right, and he may be, time is running out faster than most of the world thinks.
当大多数人工作的动力最终消失时,世界开始变得奇妙。
It's a bizarre world when most peoples' main motivation to work is to eventually stop working.
当今世界处于快速变化之中,而且更微妙、更难以察觉,这超出了大多数人的想象。
The world changes faster, yet more subtly and stealthily, than most people imagine.
一支由数学天才和科学家组成的精英团队(他们中的大多数人并不为外部世界所知),在那里构想神秘莫测的交易战略,将其勾勒在白色书写板上,然后借助超级计算机设定交易模型。
There, esoteric trading strategies are imagined, sketched on whiteboards and modeled on supercomputers by an elite corps of math wizards and scientists, most of them unknown to the outside world.
在这个食物丰足的世界里,我们大多数人很少去思考我们的食物从哪儿来,又是如何种植的。
Most of us in the well-fed world give little thought to where our food comes from or how it's grown.
人们有时会说,他花了比大多数人拥抱世界更多的时间和精力去逃避它,他的难以捉摸只是更增加了他的神秘。
He spent more time and energy avoiding the world, it was sometimes said, than most people do in embracing it, and his elusiveness only added to the mythology growing up around him.
在世界上环境卫生较差地区生活的大多数人都感染过这种病毒。
Most people in areas of the world with poor sanitation have been infected with this virus.
尽管大多数人都知道世界七大奇迹,但是没有多少人能够说得出他们的名字。
Although most people know that a list exists of the Seven World Wonders, only few can name them.
当然,这就意味着你的计划没有用到世界的大多数人,但是很多不就都是这样的嘛。
Of course, that means your plan will be basically useless to most of the world's population, but so it goes.
这一变化具有的巨大讽刺意味是,至少在开始阶段,我们处于世界较富裕地区的大多数人将收获利益。
The great irony of this change is that, initially at least, most of us in the richer parts of the world will benefit.
看看周围,这世界的大多数人并非长得像湖人啦啦女郎或女狼俱乐部的服务员。
Look around. Most of the world does not look like the Laker Girls or even Coyote Ugly waitresses.
然而,当你询问这纷繁世界的大多数人是否常常留出时间休息时,他们会告诉你“我太忙了,没有时间休息”。
Yet, when you ask most people in today's frenzied culture if they consistetly set aside time for rest, they will tell you that they are just too busy to rest.
这听上去似乎已经是常识了,因为当今世界绝大多数人都是这样想的。
This probably sounds like common sense to you because it's the belief system under which most people are raised today.
同样到2025年,世界2/3的人口将在城市居住,因此交通拥挤和环境污染问题将日益突出,影响大多数人的生活。
Also by 2025, twothirds of the world's people will live in cities, so traffic jams and pollution will loom3 large in most people's lives.
我们中的大多数人都过着非常忙碌的快节奏生活,一旦整个世界和我们的节奏搭不上调,我们就会变得非常烦躁。
Slow down. Most of us have very busy and fast-paced lives and we get impatient when the world is not moving at our speed.
就像我们都拥有五种感官一样,我们也能通过这三种方式来感知世界,不过大多数人都有一种最习惯的方式来感受世界。
Just as we all have five physical senses, we all perceive through all three modalities, but most of us have a primary or favored way of perceiving life.
果然,祖马先生在足球世界杯期间利用了其绝妙的花招,使得这项赛事的举办比大多数人敢预想的要好得多。
Sure enough, Mr Zuma was at his beguiling best during the football World Cup, a festival that passed off even better than most had dared hope.
世界上的大多数人,并不知道已经发生的这件事情,这对他们毫无意义。
Most of the people in the world had no idea that that had occurred and it makes absolutely no difference to them.
大多数人学习英语的原因是用这门语言进行交流并打造一条通往更宽广世界的道路。
The chief reason most people want to learn English is to be able to communicate in the language and forge pathways into the wider world.
世界上大多数人是不吸烟的,他们有权要求不暴露在其他人的烟草烟雾中。
Most people in the world are non-smokers and have a right not to be exposed to other people's smoke.
今天,大多数人确实生活在一个教育普及(事实上,大学普及)的世界里,但这绝对不是18世纪的人所预想的那个世界。
Today, most human beings do live in a schooled (indeed, universitied) world, but this was definitely not the world of the 18th century.
尽管茹瓦永驾驶的帆船比前世界记录保持者的快的多,但是大多数人都认为他不太可能在近80天内完成航海。茹瓦永则不这么认为。
Although Joyon was sailing a much faster boat than the previous record-holder, most saw little chance of him getting even close to 80 days.
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