The hypothetical boiled frog is a useful metaphor for a very real problem: the difficulty of responding to disasters that creep up on you a bit at a time.
虚构的煮熟青蛙对一个非常实际的问题而言,是个很实用的隐喻。这问题是:因应不知不觉中临头的灾难,是件难事。
The most likely explanation for the comet-like feature is that the star's solar wind-actually a stream of charged particles-is evaporating the gas giant a bit at a time, astronomers say.
具有彗星特征的行星最有可能的解释是太阳风,天文学家说,太阳风实际上是一连串带电粒子,它在同一时间蒸发了大量气体。
It was like being a mouse, only daring to nibble a little bit at a time.
它就像一只老鼠,一次只敢吃一点点。
Either way, perhaps its time we all took a bit of a closer look at what we do online and studied our digital reflection.
无论如何,也许是时候我们都来近距离观察下自己在线都做了些什么,研究一下自己的数码映像了。
If you're good at getting your speech time, then don't be selfish and ease off a bit to give other people a chance to talk.
如果你很善于争取自己的演讲时间,那么不要太自私,可以分给其他人一点时间,让他们也有机会开口说话。
That might seem like a bit of a paradox, but at the same time that viewers are watching content that is more relevant to them, they are also sharing what they’re viewing with others.
这看起来有点矛盾,但借助互联网,你可以和他人分享你在观看的节目,或者帮助你找到在同一时间和你观看同一节目的人,这是一个社交网络。
In a conventional computer, a bit can represent either 1 or 0 at any time. Thanks to the quirks of quantum mechanics, the equivalent in a quantum computer, a qubit, can represent both values at once.
在一个传统计算机中,任何时刻一个比特被表示为1或0.由于量子力学的奇怪结果,等价的情形在一个量子计算机中,一个量子比特能够被表示为任意值的叠加。
This is probably a good thing for a news site, because people need at least a bit of time to digest news.
这对于新闻站点而言可能是个不错的选择,因为人们需要一点时间来接受信息。
But when you're looking at something you care about, or when you're just suspicious, isn't it worth taking a little extra time to check just a bit further?
但是当你在看到你所关心的,或者你觉得可疑的事情的时候,花一点额外的时间去核查一下难道不是值得的吗?
This is why, in my household at least, tax time can be a bit of a horror.
这就是为什么,至少在我家,缴税时间会变得有点充满荣誉感。
In particular, scientists tend to see preparatory brain activity as proceeding stepwise, one bit at a time, to a final decision.
特别是,科学家们倾向于将预备性脑电活动视为步进性过程,某个时间一点点,直至最后做出决策。
This is carbon that has accumulated in ecosystems a little bit at a time for thousands of years, but is being released very rapidly through increased burning.
碳元素在历经数千年点点滴滴的在我们的生态环境中被积存了起来,但是现在却迅速的以加速燃烧的形式被释放了出来。
The evidence so far suggests that a bit of luck is involved: a cell has to receive the right dose of each factor at the right time.
目前的证据显示幸运也是因素之一:细胞必须在合适的时机获得合适剂量的不同因子。
For the time being, though, Mr Papandreou may have to stay at home a bit more-and be sure that somebody in his office is keeping a close eye on the bond-trading screen.
眼下,尽管帕潘德里呆在国内的时间会更长些,但他还是要确保办公室里有人帮他盯着债券交易市场的大屏幕。
Martin said it was like being a mouse, only daring to nibble a little bit at a time.
马丁笑侃,我们像是每次只敢啃那么一小口食物的老鼠。
Does it make sense to think we could do this in less than linear time? You know, it takes a little bit of thinking. What would it mean do I see a hand way at the back, yes please? Thank you.
你要稍微想一想,这意味着什么?,那儿是有人举手么?后面的,请你来回答吧,谢谢你,小伙子,你让我体会到我上课的价值。
Both myself and Wayne wanted to do something a bit different for our wedding day but at the same time wanted to maintain a little bit of tradition.
我和韦恩都想让我们的婚礼来点与众不同,但同时我们又想保留一点传统的东西。
Some software does get a tangible speed improvement as a 64-bit app while at the same time not winding up with an excessively large install size.
有些64位软件获得了切实的速度提升,同时还不会使得安装体积变得很大。
Like so many of the Pixar animated features, it finds a color palette that's bright and cheerful, but not too pushy, and a tiny bit realistic at the same time.
就象皮克斯的很多作品一样,色彩光亮明快,不会一意孤行,同时保持一些现实性。
That was my hobby, there was a bit of money, and at that time in Russia a hundred us dollars salary a month was good money, so I survived!
那是我的兴趣,钱虽然很少,但是那时在俄罗斯100美金一个月的薪水已经算是很富裕的了。所以我存活了下来!
You should not leave this time on your resume blank, since a 4 year absence from the work force looks a bit suspect, but include something simple like: 2001-present: Stay-at home parent to 2 children.
你不应该在简历上把这一段时间空着不写,因为离开工作四年时间看起来是很可疑的。你可以在简历上简单滴写一些诸如下面的话:2001至今,呆在家里照顾两个孩子。
Although it may sound a bit odd to prescribe naps for someone who falls asleep all the time, sleep experts suggest you take two naps a day — one at lunchtime and one around 4:00 p.m..
尽管给那些整天入睡的人想出这个点子听上去挺怪的,不过睡眠专家建议每日打两次瞌睡——一次在午后,另一次在下午4点左右。
A good option is to use a BufferedReader to read a bit of the stream at a time.
一种不错的选择就是使用BufferedReader每次读取一些数据流。
People can get hung up on sort of hunting these things down, and stamping them out, one at a time. And it's a little bit like playing Whack-a-Mole. Right?
我们可能会一次一个的去发现,这个bug并且消灭它,这有点像打鼹鼠对不对?,不停的有鼹鼠跳起来?
Remember, we are assuming that the Credit History component takes a bit longer, so we first fire off an asynchronous request to get the History, and retrieve the response at a point later in time.
请记住,我们假定CreditHistory组件的处理时间会稍微长一些,因此首先将触发异步请求以获取History,并在稍后检索响应。
"My only defense is that decision was made in 1977, at a time when it was uncertain if the Internet would work," Cerf said recently, adding that a "128-bit address space seemed excessive back then."
Cerf最近补充道,我唯一保守的就是在1977年做的决定,那个时候还不知道互联网能不能工作,128位地址在那个时候看起来没有必要。
"My only defense is that decision was made in 1977, at a time when it was uncertain if the Internet would work," Cerf said recently, adding that a "128-bit address space seemed excessive back then."
Cerf最近补充道,我唯一保守的就是在1977年做的决定,那个时候还不知道互联网能不能工作,128位地址在那个时候看起来没有必要。
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