我最担心的就是父母会察觉出来。
对于伪装得很好的物种,这种危险会大大增加,它们的自然本能就是相信这种隐藏是它们主要的防御手段。
This hazard is much increased with species that are well disguised and whose natural instinct is to trust to this concealment as their principal defense.
这种吸血鬼的能量会耗尽,这就是为什么你要考虑这个朋友是否值得继续交往。
This energy of the vampire can be draining, which is why you should consider if this friend is worth keeping.
有一件事会抑制快乐,那就是一个人专注于避免失败,而不是期待把事情做好。
One thing that can hold joy back is a person's concentration on avoiding failure rather than their looking forward to doing something well.
如果医生说你会自己慢慢好起来,那么这本身就是一剂强有力的处方。
If the doctor says you will get better by yourself, then this is a powerful prescription in itself.
我们会认为它迁徙的整个区域就是它的栖息地,因为在长途旅行中,它需要经常下来进食和睡觉,对吧?
We would say that this whole area over which it migrates is its habitat because on this long-distance journey, it needs to come down to feed and sleep every so often, right?
如果你是一个细菌,你的一生就是游向营养物,逃避那些会杀死你的东西。
If you're a bacterium, your whole life is about swimming to nutrients and running away from things that would kill you.
研究发现,押韵可以让记东西更简单——这就是为什么孩子们在会阅读之前就能记住不少书的原因。
Studies have found that rhyming makes it easier to remember things—which is why toddlers can memorize some books before they can read them.
我惟一的目标就是代表美国参加奥运会。
My only aim is to represent the United States at the Olympics.
瞧见了没?我没说错吧。这就是我没早说的原因,就知道你们会弄错的。
You see? There you go. That's why I didn't mention it earlier. I knew you'd take it the wrong way.
这种神秘但可教的品质就是创造力,这是杜伦大学创造力和教育委员会最近发表的一份报告的主题。
This mysterious but teachable quality is creativity, the subject of a recently published report by the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education.
“你写这篇文章的最大优势,”大学理事会的《指南》中写道,“就是你接触了这个话题17年左右,对此已经熟悉了。”
The greatest strength you bring to this essay. says the College Board's how-to book, "is 17 years or so of familiarity with the topic."
米奇想象着他们正在奥运会的冰球场上绕场一圈庆祝胜利,而自己就是曲棍球冠军队里的一员。
Mikey imagined that they were skating a victory lap around the Olympic rink and she was a member of a gold-medal hockey team.
这就是我们想通过Kindle实现的,设计一种装置,非常简单,这个工具会消失,而让你进入作者的世界。
That's what we wanna achieve with Kindle, to have a device, so simple, a tool that would disappear and let you enter the author's world.
最让人忧心的就是这些转移过来的巨型动物可能会毁灭美国西部一些土生土长的动植物。
A big worry is that these transplanted megafauna might devastate plants and animals that are native to the western United States.
这就是接下来那些通过这条完整通道的闪电往往会击中高层建筑的原因。
That is why the subsequent lightning that follows the completed channel often strikes a tall structure.
如果阅读能力或听力变了个戏法,也许你会觉得自己就是一个语言学习者。
If reading or listening does a trick, maybe you feel like you're a verbal learner.
它们只有一个共同点,那就是它们往往会惹恼或威胁那些自认为更开明的人。
They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened expenses.
当他们让一只燕鸥或鹈鹕扔下一条鱼时,他们会一头栽到水里,然后把鱼从水面抓起来,这可能就是这只鸟被油弄脏的原因。
When they get a tern or pelican to drop a fish, they plunge down and grab it off the surface of the water, which may have been how this bird got oiled.
然而,这一推理忽略了一个事实,那就是年纪大到因严重罪行服过两次徒刑的人很少会再犯一次以上的罪行。
What this reasoning overlooks, however, is that people old enough to have served two prison sentences for serious crimes rarely commit more than one subsequent crime.
詹姆斯等人表示,这是一种会导致运动行为的想法,而这就是它被称为“意念运动行为”的原因——它是一个会导致运动行为的想法。
James and others said that this is an idea leading to a motor action, and that's why it's called "ideomotor action"—an idea leads to motor activity.
对于我来说,就是读书和跑步,但是其他人可能会喜欢工艺品、冥想、瑜伽、去远足、冲浪等等。
For me, that's reading and running, but others might like crafts, meditation, yoga, going on hikes, surfing, or whatever.
也就是说,我们的测试司机认为巴士会减速或停下来以让我们汇入车流,并且有足够的空间做到那一点。
That said our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that.
在她有机会以第一夫人的身份投身于一项事业——慈善或基金会之前,她最紧迫的任务,或许也是最复杂的职责,可能就是做她原本的自己。
Before she ever gets the chance to commit to a cause, charity or foundation as First Lady, her most urgent and perhaps most complicated duty may be simple to be herself.
“可与之相比的就是20世纪90年代有关加密的争夺战,”库尔特·奥普萨尔说道,他是隐私监督组织电子前沿基金会的法律总顾问。
"A comparison point is in the 1990s battles over encryption," said Kurt Opsahl, general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog group.
当狮子及其他捕食性动物觉得自己正被注视着时,它们就不大可能会继续袭击,这种想法就是基于这一原理。
This idea is based on the principle that lions and other predators are far less likely to attack when they feel they are being watched.
从纯粹的生物学意义上讲,恐惧始于身体系统对可能会伤害我们的事情的反应,也就是所谓的“战或逃反应”。
In a purely biological sense, fear begins with the body's system for reacting to things that can harm us—the so-called fight-or-flight response.
一个人的腋窝会产生全部的吸引力,一些块菌就是利用了这样一种人性的特性——至少在化学家看来是这样的。
A person's armpits have all the appeal, and some truffles take advantage of such a human nature—at least to chemists.
接下来我所说的可能会让事情变得更复杂,那就是,老年人住在什么样的设施里这个问题,可能并没有我们想的那么重要。
I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.
接下来我所说的可能会让事情变得更复杂,那就是,老年人住在什么样的设施里这个问题,可能并没有我们想的那么重要。
I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.
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