When you summarize, you condense an extended idea or argument into a sentence or more in your own words.
总结的时候，用自己的话把拓展了的观念或论据简缩成一句或几句话。
A few hours later, when she came to say goodbye, the family asked her to settle an argument they've been having over exactly what advice she had given.
几个小时后，当她来告别时，家人要求她解决他们一直在争论的问题，即她到底给了什么建议。
I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.
我用另一个合理的论点进行反驳：提高最低工资将迫使企业在更短的时间内雇佣更少的人。
On the other, the new generation can find it more difficult to advance an argument that typically holds little sway to a nevertiree.
另一方面，新一代可能会发现，提出一种对永不退休的人几乎没有影响力的论点通常会变得更加困难。
A move back to self-sufficiency, the argument goes, would boost the farming industry, political sovereignty and even the nation's health.
这种观点认为，回归自给自足将促进农业发展、巩固政治主权、甚至提升国民健康。
It is a glimpse of the blindingly obvious—and there's nothing to back strongly either a hereditary or environmental argument.
这是对显而易见的事实的一瞥，但并没有任何证据能有力支撑遗传或环境的论点。
In contrast, suppose you give a reasonable argument: that full-time workers should not have to live in poverty.
相比之下，假设你提出一个合理的论点：全职工人不应该生活在贫困中。
When you are trying to change someone's mind, try to keep it as a conversation and not an argument.
当你试图改变别人的想法时，试着把它作为一种对话而不是一种争论。
If you're taking part in a debate you need to persuade the listeners of the soundness of your argument.
如果你在参加一场辩论，你需要说服听众，让他们了解你的论点的正确性。
But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a growing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship.
但他们很少（如果有过的话）公开将这一观点进一步发扬，声称不断增长的制造业鼓励了手工技艺的发展。
But this is a real-life argument before a Supreme Court that has a well-earned reputation for looking out for the interests of large corporations.
但在最高法院面前，这是一场现实生活中的辩论。最高法院一向以关注大公司利益而闻名。
But there was a crucial flaw in this argument—one routinely overlooked in more conventional areas of science.
但这一论点有一个关键的缺陷——一个在更传统的科学领域经常被忽视的缺陷。
Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.
在你把这个论点当作垃圾置之不理之前，或者在你认为对于一个极其贫困、学术成就低和高辍学率的国家而言，快乐是一种负担不起的奢侈品之前，再想想吧。
A wicked society breeds evil or so the argument goes.
一个邪恶的社会滋生邪恶，或者争论上是如此。
They're trying to lay out an argument which is consistent and continuous, and keep surprise to a minimum.
他们试图提出一个一致和持续的论点，并尽量使我们的诧异最小化。
Their argument almost ended in a fistfight.
他们的争论几乎以互殴告终。
Mr. Vassiliou, standing as an independent, succeeded in convincing a significant number of voters of his argument.
瓦西里欧先生以无党派人士身份成功地说服了大量选民支持他的观点。
Let's assume for the sake of argument that we manage to build a satisfactory database.
让我们为了讨论假定我们设法构建了一个令人满意的数据库。
Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes.
当疲惫的队伍推推搡搡挤上公共汽车或地铁时，许多刻薄的争论或侮辱性的争吵爆发了。
This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MIT's Center for Digital Business.
来自麻省理工学院的数字商业中心埃里克·布林约夫松和安德鲁·麦卡菲合著的《与机器的较量》一书获得了成功，这让这个观点得到了极大的关注。
Why, the argument goes, should a car-driving pensioner from Lincolnshire have to subsidise the daily commute of a stockbroker from Surrey?
有人争论道，为什么一个来自林肯郡的、有车开的、领着养老金的人必须去补贴一个来自萨里郡的股票经纪人的日常通勤呢？
They should start by discarding California's lame argument that exploring the contents of a smartphone—a vast storehouse of digital information—is similar to, say, going through a suspect's purse.
首先，他们应该摒弃加利福尼亚州站不住脚的观点，即探索智能手机的内容，这是一个庞大的数字信息库，相当于翻查嫌疑犯的钱包。
Least rousing, he thinks, was rational argument, although his co-authors say reason might play a bigger role.
他认为，理性论证的影响最小，尽管他的合著者认为，理性可能发挥了更大的作用。
Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
那两个老兄弟几天前吵了一架，吵得相当厉害，最后同意打个赌来决定，这是英国人解决一切问题的方式。
The most important argument for a broad education is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages, we improve our moral sense.
支持全面教育的一个重要理由是，我们在学习中积聚智慧，提高自己的道德意识。
Another argument against allowing people to own a bomb is that at the moment it is very expensive to build one.
另一个反对准许人们拥有炸弹的理由是，目前制造一枚炸弹的成本非常高昂。
The main argument against the interview as a selection procedure is that it results in a wholly subjective decision.
反对将面试作为招聘人才的方式的主要理由是面试会导致完全主观性的决定。
Have you ever had a similar argument with the people around you?
你曾经和周围的人有过类似的争吵吗？
Summer camp was coming, and I was so worried about my height that I'd gotten into a big argument with my mom.
夏令营就要开始了，我很担心自己的身高，结果和妈妈大吵了一架。
One day later, people who had a resolved argument reported no increase of negative emotions compared with those who avoided an argument.
一天后，与那些避免争辩的人相比，解决问题的人就不会增加负面情绪。
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