在加拿大打球时，一位NBA球员曾经低声轻笑，带着难以置信的神情跟我说：“我们必须和其他人一样在海关排队等候。”
An NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canada—get this—"We have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else."
“你们像海贝壳一样轻。”金枪鱼回答说，他有一匹两岁的马那么大。
"You are as light as sea-shells," answered the Tunny, who was as large as a two-year-old horse.
正如一位年轻人所说，“说我是俄罗斯公民的唯一东西就是我护照里的一个备注。”
As one young man puts it, "The only thing that makes me Russian is a note in my passport."
一位年轻的工程师解释说，这些亮点代表世界范围内正在发生的所有互联网搜索，每一种颜色代表一种不同的语言。
A young engineer explained that the lights represented all of the Internet searches taking place across the world, and each color represented a different language.
进一步说，身处自然，无论是一次树林中的远足，还是简简单单的从你的办公室窗户里凝视一条河流，都可以带来轻送、满足的感觉，甚至可以激发创作的火花。
Suffice it to say that nature, whether a hike in the woods or simply gazing at the river from your office window, can bring about relaxation, feelings of connectedness, and even spark creativity.
一会儿之后大师轻叹说：“如今的圣洁只是一个概念而没有实质。当它有了实质而没有概念时它才是真正的圣洁。”
Later the Master said with a sigh: "Holiness today is a name without a reality." It is only genuine when it is a reality without a name.
当一位年轻的农民被问及这么大的墓穴就在离他家不远的山坡上是否令他害怕时，他说：“有什么可怕的？”
A young farmer shrugged when asked if he was afraid to have such a large grave on a hillside close to his home. "What is the point of being frightened?"
“我很担心，因为我老妈开车时老是讲电话，虽然她并没有因此放松警惕，但我总觉的这样好危险，”一位年轻人这样说。
"I am concerned because when my mom drives she talks on the phone a lot so she is still alert but she can get kind of dangerous," reported one young teen.
数据统计可以容易地算出“谎言系数”，用来调整人们给自己往轻了说几磅的倾向：我猜想美国人通常会少说15%实际的体重。
Statisticians can easily generate "lie coefficients" to adjust for the human tendency to fib away a few pounds. My guess is that for Americans it would be about 15% on average.
其中一位年轻人还告诉我，鲍勃曾说如果寿命够长的话，他也可能会做一件使他引以为耻的事。
One of our younger people said that Bob had told him that if he lived long enough, he would do something he’d be ashamed of, too.
小教堂里坐满了人，蝴蝶悄悄地飞了进去，轻落到上帝的肩膀上，她听着下面的爱人对上帝发誓说：我愿意！
Small church filled with people, butterflies fly quietly into the light fell on the shoulders of God, she listened to the following lovers swear to God, said: I am willing!
在一家网站工作的一位年轻男职员说：“将自己的收入和同职位的其他人进行对比后，大多数人都会感到有点失落，对自己的上司也会有所不满。这是很自然的。”
"Of course, after comparing the incomes of other people in similar positions, most people would feel a little frustrated and unsatisfied with their bosses," said a young man working for a website.
这个年轻的设计者告诉《工程师》杂志说这个设计的优势在于可以无级变速、高效、生命周期长，而且重量轻。
The young designer told the Engineer that the advantages of the new design included seamless shifting, higher efficiency, longer chain and sprocket life, as well as improved weight distribution.
研究人员说这种材料不但比聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料轻100倍，并且还具有“非常高的吸收能量”的特性。
The researchers say the material is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and has "extraordinarily high energy absorption" properties.
丰田说，当驾驶者连续轻踩刹车时，普锐斯的刹车有时会反应迟缓。
Toyota has said that Prius brakes were sometimes slow to respond when drivers kept lightly pressing them.
“很多针对这一时期的放射性碳年代测定的精确范围都存在争议，”阿米哈伊·玛扎尔说着便有些厌倦的轻笑起来。
"Many of the radiocarbon dates for this period cover exactly the range that's under debate," Amihai Mazar says, chuckling wearily.
比如说，可以在桌面上轻划手指来提高或是降低媒体播放器的音量。
An example would be scraping your fingernail across the table top to increase or decrease volume on your media player.
带领材料开发团队的中佛罗里达大学的化学副教授翟磊（音）说：“这是一种非常轻的碳纳米管材料。”
"It's a kind of very light carbon nanotube material, " said Lei Zhai, the associate professor of chemistry at the University of Central Florida who led the material's development.
也就是说，2%的空中运输量占总价值的35%：轻而昂贵的货物如高端电子元件往往走空运这条路。
That said, the 2% by volume that goes by air accounts for around 35% of the value: light, expensive goods such as high-end electronic components tend to be flown.
上帝与蝴蝶约定的三年很快要结束了,就在最后的一天,蝴蝶的爱人跟那个女人举行了婚礼.小教堂里坐满了人,蝴蝶悄悄地飞了进去,轻落到上帝的肩膀上,她听著下面的爱人对上帝发誓说:我愿意!
On the last day of the third year when the deal between the God and the butterfly was almost over, the man held a wedding with his girlfriend. The church was crowded with people.
“如果欧洲央行能更有前瞻性，及早出手，衰退本来应该轻一些。”意大利联合信贷银行的马可·安努齐亚塔说。
"If the ECB had been more proactive, the recession would have been less bad," says Marco Annunziata of UniCredit.
伦德说，参赛选手都有自己喜爱的投掷手机品牌，“人们根据大小、颜色和握在手中的舒适度选择手机……有的人觉得重的手机扔得更远，有的人则喜欢扔轻的”。
Lund says competitors all have their favourite throwing brand. "People choose by size, by colour or by how it fits in the hand."..
在这样一个现金为王的时代，债务可是个大麻烦。一位年轻的内阁部长——特雷斯曼勋爵曾警告说，全体英格兰俱乐部贷款总计已经达到四十三亿美元。
In an era where cash is king and debt is big trouble, a junior government minister, Lord Triesman, has warned that the entire stable of English clubs was carrying loans of $4.3 billion.
说得轻一点我有点担心，我身边的男人用斯瓦西里语说，你有什么不好吗？
I was a bit worried, to say the least. The man next to me said in Swahili, "What's the problem?"
调查人员说，这次的N1H1病毒的严重程度看起来与1957年的流感差不多，但比1918年的致命的流感病毒要轻。
The researchers said this H1N1 virus appeared to be about equal in severity to the flu of 1957, and less severe than the deadly 1918 version.
一位年轻的厂长汪锦福（音）说：“你看，我们又不是奴隶主。”
“Look at us,” says Wang Jinfu, a young factory-owner. “We are not slave drivers.”
一位年轻的厂长汪锦福（音）说：“你看，我们又不是奴隶主。”
“Look at us,” says Wang Jinfu, a young factory-owner. “We are not slave drivers.”
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