我们的社会需要让人们能够想象这样一种可能性：有人既能够完全适应现代技术，又能理解这个动态、令人困惑的世界。
Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility of someone utterly in tune with modern technology but able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world.
诸如在晴朗的日子散步这样简朴的乐趣对我们的情绪有累积性益处。
It is simple pleasures, such as a walk on a sunny day, which have a cumulative effect on our mood.
我们必须实事求是地估计我们获胜的可能性。
我们的两个最大优点是多样性和团体精神。
我们对客户要确保服务的连贯性。
We need to ensure the consistency of service to our customers.
我们不应该排除谈判的可能性。
我们对使用这些设施只收取象征性的费用。
我们必须避免类似20世纪80年代那样破坏性的繁荣-萧条周期。
We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterized the 1980s.
人们普遍假设我们是受公共基金的资助，但我们大部分的资金是通过签订竞争性合同得到的。
There's a popular supposition that we're publicly funded but the bulk of our money comes from competitive contracts.
我们的旅行费用全包—没有任何隐含性费用。
这一决定将妨碍我们制定一个全国性宽带政策的努力。
The decision will throw a monkey wrench into our efforts to develop a national broadband policy.
我们是个流动性很强的社会，所以忍不住想携带一切东西。
We are a very mobile society and can't resist trying to take everything with us.
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.
我们的产品从质量、可靠性、尤其是多样性来看很有竞争力。
Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.
陈词滥调之所以如此容易渗透到我们的演讲和写作中，是由于它们潜在的可记忆性，这正是它们在口述故事中扮演如此重要角色的原因。
The very reason that clichés so easily seep into our speech and writing—their insidious memorability—is exactly why they played such an important role in oral storytelling.
由于缺乏一个更好的措辞，我们可以称这种方法为“事实性错误，但社会性准确”。
For lack of a better phrase, we might call this approach "factually false, but socially accurate."
“这里发生的一切反映了一种全国性的反知识分子趋势，这种趋势不会让我们的孩子为未来做好准备。”贾说。
"What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future," Jia said.
我们的编辑选择的荣誉优胜者，利用了一种特殊的系统，能够将偶然的射频干扰从有针对性的干扰攻击中分离出来。
The winner of our Editors' Choice distinction, utilizes a special system that's capable of separating incidental RF interference from targeted jamming attacks.
当积极的情绪为我们带来新的可能性时，我们更有能力去学习和培养我们的技能。
When positive emotions open us up to new possibilities, we are more able to learn and build on our skills.
由于养分的重要性和贫乏性，营养循环是我们在这门课中会讲到的最重要的生态系统过程之一。
Because of the importance of nutrients and their scarcity, nutrient recycling is one of the most significant eco-system processes that we'll cover in this course.
到目前为止，我们的讨论都是理论性的。
最近我们谈到了可持续能源的重要性。
We've talked recently about the importance of sustainable energy.
然而，在大多数时候，我们呼吸着周围的香气，却没有意识到它们对我们的重要性。
For the most part, however, we breathe in the aromas which surround us without being consciously aware of their importance to us.
有时候我们的意见带有主观性，因此，在做决定之前最好多加考虑。
Sometimes our opinions are subjective, so we'd better think twice before we make a decision.
我们通过创造性的思维找到解决办法。
最后，其他人可能会给我们提供工具性支持——财政援助、物质资源和必要的服务——这可以帮助我们应对和解决问题，减轻我们的压力。
Finally, other people may give us instrumental support—financial aid, material resources, and needed services—that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.
如果我们要真正了解在不同文化中我们的认知生活有多大的差异，我们就必须不断探索我们物种语言多样性的深度。
If we are to truly understand how much our cognitive lives differ cross-culturally, we must continually explore the depths of our species' linguistic diversity.
对语言中的数词研究不断表明，我们物种的关键特征之一就是庞大的语言多样性和认知多样性。
Research on the language of numbers shows, more and more, that one of our species' key characteristics is tremendous linguistic and cognitive diversity.
我们一直在宣传 Endure的生产过程，但最新研究表明，尽管我们的袜子具有耐久性，但我们的普通客户实际上还是要每三个月购买一次新的Dura-Socks。
We have always advertised our use of the Endure process, but the new study shows that despite our socks' durability, our average customer actually purchases new Dura-Socks every three months.
这就需要建立一个全球性的检查和制衡体系，在我们与自然打交道时制定强制性的规则和约束。
This raises the need for a global system of checks and balances, for mandatory rules and constraints in our dealings with nature.
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