今天,我想看看哺乳动物的一些交流系统,尤其是灵长类动物,比如猩猩,黑猩猩,大猩猩。
Today, I'd like to look at some communication systems found in mammals, particularly in primates, such as orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas.
我认为在未来,材料将会得到改进,它们的外观和触感将会像我们今天所知的面料那样,比如像棉花或丝绸那样。
I think in the future, materials will evolve, and they will look and feel like fabrics we know today, like cotton or silk.
今天,丝绸之路沿线的一些地方成为了很棒的旅游目的地,比如西安的兵马俑和甘肃敦煌的莫高窟。
Today, places along the Silk Road are great travel destinations, such as the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an and Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang Gansu.
如果最早形成的粒子——比如夸克——的质量与我们今天的测量值稍有不同呢?
What if the earliest particles to form — such as quarks — had slightly different masses than we measure today?
相比之下,今天全球金融市场运作,比如从皮奥里亚到槟城对人们的影响。
In contrast, the operations of global financial markets today, for instance, affect people from Peoria to Penang.
其中有些剩余食物到今天还保存完好,比如图上所示的亨氏番茄酱和调味品。
Some of the food items left behind are still staples today, such as the Heinz ketchup and relish pictured above.
比如,不说:“这真是糟糕的一天;我做了许多错事儿”。取而代之地可以改成:“噢,今天我学到了很多有益的课程”。
For example, instead of saying “This is a bad day; I made a lot of mistakes” you can say “Well, today I learn a lot of useful lessons”.
在那些让位给共和制的地方,比如叙利亚的今天,也可能是利比亚的明天,新王朝仍然占统治地位。
And where they have given way to republicans, new dynasties, such as Syria's today and Libya's probably tomorrow, still hold sway.
时代确实在变化,社会在进步,今天是对的,比如穿戴设计很糟的服饰,明天就不对了。
Society evolves. What is right today, for example wearing badly designed clothes, is not right tomorrow.
今天,很多专家(包括德州水发展局的成员),建议着手一项重要工程以保证未来水资源的可持续性,比如在海岸线建设脱盐工厂。
Today, many experts, including members of the Texas Water Development Board, recommend undertaking a major project to ensure future sustainability, such as a desalination plant on the Gulf Coast.
答案有很多(比如我以前的一篇文章"19个发现新读者的方法")。但当我今天仔细考虑这个问题后,两个主要观点浮现在脑海中。
There are many answers that could be given to this (for example I wrote 19 tips for finding new readers previously) – but as I’ve pondered the question today two main ideas came to mind.
今天教育系统的很多问题都在传媒中有所反映比如说电影等待超人和2121。
Many of the problems with today's education system are documented in the media with films like (Waiting for Superman) and (2121).
酒精减弱了我们记忆零碎信息的能力,比如,你同事的名字,或一个词的含义,或今天早上你把汽车停放在了哪里。
'Alcohol diminishes our ability to hold on to pieces of information like your colleague's name, or the definition of a word, or where you parked your car this morning.
他提出,假设未来降临地球的所有代人民,遭受一些微小不便(比如,多一点苍蝇),那么今天的我们需要付出巨大的成本才能杜绝。
Suppose, he argues, that all these generations to come will suffer some minor inconvenience (a few extra mosquitoes, say) that we today could prevent at great cost to ourselves.
比如,伽利略计划合作、空客的合作、核电合作,今天上午比利时国王还跟我提及第四代小型核技术合作。
For example, our cooperation in Galieo project, Airbus, nuclear power and the fourth-generation small scale nuclear technologies which king of Belgium mentioned to me this morning.
但对于大多数应用,比如做生物温度的变化,是很小的,就像今天有一点冷。
But for most normal applications, like if you're doing biology, where the temperature changes by a few degrees, like today I have a little bit of a cold.
比如,我今天要去皇后区,明天我就要去布鲁克林,后天我就会在斯塔腾岛。
Out in the streets I could basically come and go as I pleased. Like, today I'm going to be in Queens and tomorrow I'm going to be in Brooklyn, next day I'll be in Staten Island.
今天,高端的终端设备正在满足这些需求,并且即将普及。比如iPhone,它拥有128MB的内存和400到600MHZ主频的处理器。
High end devices today are just approaching these requirements and willbe commonplace soon For example, the iPhone has 128MB of DRAM and somewhere between a 400 to 600 MHz processor.
比如,他们饲养犬类,从卷毛到大丹,他们种植玫瑰,从散发出甜美气味的小玩意到今天能长期保鲜且无气味的大红。
For example, they produced dogs ranging from poodles to Great Danes, and roses from sweet-smelling miniatures to today's long-lasting, but scent-free reds.
今天,Mongrel(以及它的亲属:基于Ruby的web服务器,比如Thin和Ebb)仍然是Rails主要的部署环境,因为它的稳定,它的快速,以及它多样的功能。
Today, Mongrel (and it's ilk of similar Ruby-based web servers such as Thin and Ebb) still the predominate deployment environment. And for many good reasons: It's stable, it's versatile, it's fast.
Google今天发布了除了操作系统本身之外的所有东西,比如源代码,之后又解释这款操作系统比其他的有什么不同。
Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it's different than other operating systems.
有时他们也和它说话,比如一个人说“今天过得好吗?”
Sometimes, they would talk to it, saying things like "How's it going?"
今天早上,当我醒来时,有关iPad的新闻像洪水一样铺天盖地而来,其中许多新闻仅仅是关于那些非常神奇的应用,比如Netflix,但是有一封邮件引起了我的注意。
This morning, I woke up with a deluge of press releases about the iPad -many of them simply fantastic applications, such as the Netflix app -but there was one email which caught my eye.
他所采用的方法在今天是司空见惯的,比如说在JamesBond在电影里佩戴omega手表,以及为名人提供赞助。
He pioneered techniques that would seem commonplace now, such as product placements in James Bond films and celebrity sponsorships.
制定每日目标(比如我今天会走20分钟路),每周目标(比如至少做3次锻炼),甚至是每小时目标(每隔45分钟起身绕着大楼走走)。
Set daily goals (I'll walk for 20 minutes today), weekly goals (I'll get a minimum of 3 workouts in), or even hourly goals (I'll get up every 45 minutes and walk around the building).
假如你立马开始行动(比如说今天),你并没有赋予这个方案应有的严肃性。
When you start right away (like today), you are not giving the plan the seriousness it deserves.
比如说,“诗人”,是小说《1984》中一部为保持大众娱乐而生产音乐的机器,很难不把它与今天那些用来预测热门音乐的东西联系起来。
The versificator in “1984”, for example, a machine that generates music to keep the masses happy, is not unlike the systems used to predict pop hits today.
匹兹堡今天的幸运来自于它在很大程度上躲过了席卷全国其它地区的房地产和互联网泡沫,比如当下它就在建设实实在在的体育场和医院。
Pittsburgh is in relatively good shape because it largely missed the housing and dotcom booms enjoyed by the rest of the county. Indeed, it is currently building a new sports arena and a new hospital.
物理学家想要探索宇宙的奥秘已经不能仅仅依靠设置一个摆锤就搞定一切了- - -比如今天他们会花数十亿美元建设地下粒子加速器。
Physicists looking to understand the universe don't just set up a pendulum anymore-today they build multibillion-dollar underground particle accelerators.
物理学家想要探索宇宙的奥秘已经不能仅仅依靠设置一个摆锤就搞定一切了- - -比如今天他们会花数十亿美元建设地下粒子加速器。
Physicists looking to understand the universe don't just set up a pendulum anymore-today they build multibillion-dollar underground particle accelerators.
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