大规模的军队可以消灭你,但是他们很容易被发现,容易区别,而且在你打击他们时你知道该做些什么。
Big armies can wipe you out, but they are easy to find, easy to distinguish, and you know when you have beaten them.
“这就好像你在驾驶手动挡汽车,”美国东北大学的心理学家朱迪丝·霍尔说,“而且如果你开始想得太多,你就不记得自己在做什么。”
"It's as if you're driving a stick shift," says Judith Hall, a psychologist at Northeastern University, "and if you start thinking about it too much, you can't remember what you're doing."
一声“大声叹息”意味着她认为那一刻的你是一个白痴,而且不明白自己为什么浪费了这么多时间站在这里来跟你争论“无关紧要的事”。
A "loud sigh" means she thinks you are an idiot at that moment, and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here arguing with you over "Nothing".
为了避免欺骗自己,可以小心自己的各种借口并试试这个测试:问问自己,如果你的行为是公开的,而且任何人都可能在背后看着你,你会有什么感觉。
To avoid fooling yourself, watch out for excuses and try this test: Ask how you would feel if your actions were public and anyone could be watching over your shoulder.
无论身体健康还是欠佳,滑雪去,这是一个提示(不管一个人长时间有什么可怀疑的)——你还活着,而且活着是极其有趣的。
TO SKI, however well or poorly, is a reminder-whatever one may for a long time have suspected-that one is alive, and that living is tremendous fun.
如果你是白手创业的话,你要确保你遵循良性企业运行的准则,而且你要紧记,无论你从事什么行业,你的投入和付出是一致的。
Make sure you follow the same good business practices you would if you were starting your own venture from scratch. And remember, like every business, you'll get out what you put in.
而且你知道它等于什么,这是我们说过一遍又一遍的,电离能就等于,负的束缚能。
And we know what that's equal to, this is something we've been over and over, ionization energy is simply equal to the negative of the binding energy.
大多数人是相当敏感的,而且他们知道别人(也就是你)什么时候希望——真心希望——他们必须说什么,什么时候又不应说什么。
Most people are pretty perceptive, and they can tell when someone (meaning you) is interested-really interested-in what they have to say and when he or she is not.
在接下来的一到两周你便知道你该做些什么了,而且你也可以了解已经列出的接下来几月或是几年的重要事件了。
You know what you need to do during the next week or two - and you can see the milestones mapped out for the next few months or years.
你不但可以看看四周,而且在某些时候,你的行动决定下一步要做什么,整个过程充满了惊奇。
Not only can you look around, but at certain points, your actions determine where you go next, and the whole thing is riddled with surprises.
自信——知道你要什么而且知道什么去得到:工作,停车位,关系,车子,房子,餐馆的好位子,等等?
Confidence - knowing what you want and knowing how to get it: job, parking spot, relationship, car, house, good table at restaurant, etc.
因为规则的改变,你不知道你能够预料到些什么,而且也不会有人来告诉你。
You don't know what to expect because the rules have all been changed and no one told you.
他们说对于没有良好制度为基础的国家你做任何事都没意义,而且对这些不良制度你也做不了什么。
These economists argue that you can’t do anything in a country with bad institutions—and you can’t do much about these bad institutions either.
我跟他谈到自己的顾虑,他说:“你知道这本书应该写些什么,你也知道这个话题很有意思,而且你自己也是这方面的专家,那你为什么还没开始写?”
When I told him of my doubts, he said: "You know what to write about; you know it is an interesting topic; you know you are an expert in it. So... why haven't you started writing yet?".
而且即使你能在什么地方发现这种人才,额外收益的大部分也会被转成更高的费用。
And even where you can spot talent, much of the extra performance may be siphoned off into higher fees.
而且为什么不管是不是新年,你都要做周围大多数人都在做(虽然不成功)的事情呢?
And why would you want to do what everyone else is (unsuccessfully) doing anyway, no matter what time of year?
有没有什么事情是你的团队正在做,而且需要一些外部专家或者一些额外的人手?
Is your team working on something right now where some outside expertise or a couple of extra pairs of hands might be useful?
而且要是你有什么不知道的,还有活跃的大型社区可以让你在邮件列表中进行提问。
And if you don't understand anything, then there's an active and large community available to ask questions on the mailing list.
这些债务一旦发生将会腐蚀你的生活,而且没有什么能够逆转你的人生。
These debts corrode your life as it's happening. And no bailout later in life can reverse time.
你有没有试过某个怪诞的想法突然不知道从某个地方冒出来,而且你根本不知道为什么你会在这个特定的时候冒出这种特别的想法?
HAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time?
不仅因为他们高热量,而且他们没有什么营养效益并且他们不能保持你饱。
Not only are they high in calories, but they also have very little nutritional benefit and they won't keep you full.
这种亲近方式很有效是因为它在人数上很有优势,而且你没什么压力因为你与交谈之人早就熟识。
This approach is powerful because there is strength in numbers. Plus, there is low-pressure on you because you already know the person.
还有梅丽尔,你知道我对你是什么印象,而且你真是一个接吻高手。
And Meryl, you know what I think of you and you are such a good kisser.
当我们开始踏上行程时,想清楚我们要去做的是什么,而且你对如何才能到达你想要去的地方不必非得要有一个清晰的概念。
Make things up as we go along and generally have no idea what how we'll get to where we want to go.
你手里拿着的可能是一支圆珠笔,尽管写出的线条单薄纤细,而且老师会告诉你,没有什么比写字飞快更糟糕。
Seize even a ball-point, though its line is mean and thin, and though teachers will tell you that nothing ruins writing faster.
你手里拿着的可能是一支圆珠笔,尽管写出的线条单薄纤细,而且老师会告诉你,没有什么比写字飞快更糟糕。
Seize even a ball-point, though its line is mean and thin, and though teachers will tell you that nothing ruins writing faster.
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