研究表明,即使没有能够理解我们口头指令的小工具,在某些情况下,人们也会经常认为日常物品具有人的特性,尽管这听起来很奇怪。
Even without gadgets that understand our spoken commands, research suggests that, as bizarre as it sounds, under certain circumstances, people regularly ascribe human traits to everyday objects.
“多年来,我们一直在惩罚逃学者,但这并没有让他们回到学校,”一位校长说。
"We've been punishing truancy for years, but that hasn't brought them back to school," one school principal said.
在大多数城市里,天上看起来好像没有星星,仅剩一层薄薄的雾霾,这反映出我们对黑暗的恐惧。
In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze that mirrors our fear of the dark.
我们在食品服务的所有岗位都付给学生相同数目,钱是没有差别的,所以这取决于你。
The money is no different since we pay students the same amount for any of the jobs here in food service, so it's up to you.
皮皮托内说,这没有必要,因为事实上我们大多数人已经从饮食中获得了足够的蛋白质。
No need to, says Pipitone because, in fact, most of us already get enough protein in our diet.
我喜欢朋友来我这,但我这里没有足够的座位,所以我们通常坐在地板上。
I love having friends at my place, but I have never had enough seats for everyone we would always end up with just sitting on the floor.
在火星和我们太阳系的其他行星上没有氧气,这意味着这些行星也缺乏保护地表生物免受紫外线辐射的臭氧层。
The absence of an oxygen atmosphere on Mars and other planets in our solar system means that these planets also lack an ozone shield that would protect surface-dwelling life from UV radiation.
在人类存活的这约20万年里,我们没有办法精确地表示数量。
For the bulk of our species' approximately 200,000 year lifespan, we had no means of precisely representing quantities.
事实上,劳拉,我想我们笑是因为我们很高兴这没有发生在我们身上。
Actually, Laura, I think we laugh because we are glad it didn't happen to us.
让我们先这样做,因为这能让另一堆我们甚至还没有察觉到的缺陷暴露出来。
Let's do this one first, because this would expose another whole bunch of defects that we haven't even seen yet.
虽然我妈妈总是说,“你是我们家珍贵的宝贝。”但这并没有起作用。
Although my mother always said, "You are the precious baby in our family," it didn't work.
在这一年中,我们已经安排了几个无屏幕日,这需要我们为学生制定不同的计划,涉及他们在没有“屏幕”的情况下如何与彼此和周围的世界交流。
During the course of the year, we have built in several screen-free days that require us to make different plans for our students about how they will communicate with one another and the world around them without "screens".
限制那些有足够天赋、即使睡眠少于平均值却能很好地工作和娱乐的人会阻碍我们的发展,这将是一件憾事,如果这确实对他们没有害处的话。
It would be a pity to retard our development by holding back those people who are gifted enough to work and play well with less than the average amount of sleep, if indeed it does them no harm.
这让我们能够保证自己没有在浪费资源制造那种只被堆在仓库里并最终以填埋的方式结束命运的产品。
That lets us make sure we are not wasting resources manufacturing products that might only sit in a warehouse and ultimately end up in the land fill.
这向我们提供了以前版本没有提供的额外配置和性能选项。
This gives us additional configuration and performance options not present in previous versions.
这显示了我们没有预期到情绪对我们的影响,尽管这种影响是系统的、可预测的。
This shows that we don’t anticipate how emotions will influence us, even though their influence is systematic and predictable.
我们能够迅速阻止传播,但这没有解决问题。因为艾滋病毒的感染是终生的。
We could stop transmission quickly, but it doesn't end the problem because people are infected with HIV for life.
这告诉我们印刷术并没有改变设计的必要性,简约当道。
Which tells us printing capabilities don't change the design imperative. Simplicity now rules.
这并没有告诉我们什么情况下有可能使市场上升或下跌。
That doesn't tell us what circumstances are likely to make markets go up or down.
但在媒体界中经常听到有人断言,说什么没有我们博客就什么都不是,没有什么比这更让我恼火的了。
But nothing annoys me more than the oft-heard assertion within media circles that without us blogs would be nothing.
这其实没有什么特别,我们都生活在用户生成的内容的时代。
Nothing special, we all live in the age of user generated content.
这很美妙因为我们中没有一位真的完成过一部好莱坞的音乐剧,因此我们互相支持并真正成为了朋友。
It was wonderful because none of us had ever done a real Hollywood musical, so we were rooting for each other and we really became lasting friends.
我经常提醒人们,“我们公寓没有多少空间”,这让他们会考虑帮助我们。
We often reminded people, “We don’t have much space in our apartment, ” and they helped us by considering that.
这两样我们苏丹都没有,你可能已经注意到了。
但是在这里,我们没有看到信用或者任何形式的危机。这主要因为尚没有像莱曼和贝尔斯登那样的银行和房产经纪的运营模式。
But here, we are not seeing a credit or any type of crisis, in large part because there have been no runs on Banks or brokerage houses like what happened with Lehman and Bear Stearns.
但是在这里,我们没有看到信用或者任何形式的危机。这主要因为尚没有像莱曼和贝尔斯登那样的银行和房产经纪的运营模式。
But here, we are not seeing a credit or any type of crisis, in large part because there have been no runs on Banks or brokerage houses like what happened with Lehman and Bear Stearns.
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