In 1769 in a little town in Oxfordshire, England, a child with the very ordinary name of William Smith was born into the poor family of a village blacksmith.
1769年,在英格兰牛津郡的一个小镇上,一个名字平平无奇的叫威廉·史密斯的小孩出生在一个贫穷的乡村铁匠家庭。
Miss Smith has asked for a sick leave, and I have to take over her work for a couple of days.
史密斯小姐请了病假,我得接替几天她的工作。
As a reward, Mrs. Smith gave Vicky a dog biscuit.
史密斯太太给了维姬一块狗饼干作为奖励。
You might think it's a joke,but Smith and Zeller's experiment has a serious point: can robots and people get along?
你可能认为这是一个笑话,但史密斯和泽勒的实验有一个严肃的观点:机器人和人能相处吗?
Several months ago, Mr. Smith went to a body engineering shop and asked for a small nose.
几个月前,史密斯先生去了一家身体工程店,想要一个小鼻子。
Smith says, "Kids of all ages who expect that a parent would feel happy about a child's confession are more likely to tell the truth rather than lie."
史密斯说:“所有年龄段的孩子,认为父母会对孩子的坦诚感到高兴的话,更有可能说真话而不是撒谎。”
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent minded actions for a fortnight.
史密斯教授最近说服了35人,其中23人是女性,在两周内让他们把自己所有心不在焉的行为记在日记里。
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight.
史密斯教授最近说服了35人,其中23人是女性,让他们把自己在两周内所有心不在焉的行为记在日记里。
Smith and a friend, Frauke Zeller, have built Hitchbot because they wanted to see if people would stop and give the robot a lift and talk to it.
史密斯和他的朋友弗劳克·泽勒制造了 Hitchbot,因为他们想看看人们是否会停下来让机器人搭车,并与之交谈。
But while Smith does indeed deliver a superbly wicked example of that genre, this is only a small part of her achievement.
不过史密斯所展现的确实是校园模式中一个超级邪恶的例子,而这只是她所成就的一个小小的部分。
He was sent for a medical evaluation-smith says he thought it was a routine exam-and was asked about his alcohol consumption.
他递交了一份医疗评估——史密斯说他想那只是一份例行检查——评估问到过关于他的酒精消费情况。
Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.
亚当·史密斯形容英国是一个全民皆商的国家,对能够对中产阶级寄予怎样的希望有着清楚的认识。
Almost a year later Smith, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, returned for a proper study of the skeleton site.
将近一年后,夏威夷大学马诺阿分校的海洋学家史密斯重返这具骨架所在的海底,进行适宜的研究。
They would come to Millinocket for a year, Dr. Smith said, then perhaps transfer to a private school or enroll in an American college or university.
他们可以先在密里斯诺特就读一年,史密斯博士说,然后可以转学到私立学校或者进入美国的学院或大学读书。
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) not only provides a huge distribution platform-for instance, the firm recently led a stock offering for General motors-but is also a useful source of deposits.
摩根·斯坦利美邦不仅提供了一个庞大的销售平台——例如,公司最近为通用汽车率领发行证券——而且也是一个有用的存款来源。
"The new device can cloak a much wider spectrum of waves--nearly limitless," senior researcher David R. Smith said in a statement.
资深研究员戴维·R.史密斯在一份声明中说:“新装置能够遮挡范围更广的光波——接近于无限。”
Suppose that Smith dislikes fish, but Jones, a fisherman, would like to buy his wheat. Jones then tries to find a product, say butter, not for his own use but in order to resell to Smith.
假设农夫史密斯不喜欢吃鱼,但是渔夫琼斯又想买小麦,他就不得不去寻找另一种史密斯接受的商品,比如黄油,不是为了他自己用,而是为了和史密斯进行交换。
In reality, Pocahontas was only about 10 years old when Smith arrived with the Virginia Company in 1607; she later considered him somewhat of a father figure but never a romantic interest.
其实,1607年史密斯船长随佛吉尼亚公司抵达时,印第安公主仅仅10岁,慢慢地,她对他产生了父亲般的感情,但丝毫没有爱情的成分。
Tax Freedom Day is just one of the Adam Smith Institute's many initiatives - but it has become a national institution, and gives people a clear picture of how the tax burden is rising.
无税日是协会中很多政策的一个-但是他现在成为一个全国性的协会,它给人们清晰的展示了税务的负担是正在上升的。
'I had all the classic signs, and I ignored them,' says Ms. Liebmann-Smith, a medical writer, who resolved to write a guide for laymen to the warning signs of serious illnesses.
史密斯说:“我身上所有的典型症状都有,却被我忽视了。”身为一名医学作家,她决定撰写一本针对非专业人士的书籍,内容是预示重大疾病的身体信号。
To get a better look at them, Stephen Smith, a professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford, and his team developed a process called array tomography.
为了能更好的观察它们,斯坦福的分子和细胞生理学教授斯蒂芬·史密斯以及他的团队研发了一种称作层面摄影法的方法。
Third, its high mass probably means it is made of iron, an appropriate material for a planet named after a divine Smith.
第三,新星的高重量值可能意味着它由铁组成,正好适合用火神并且是一名铁匠来命名。
“They like to have a chobble at it, but there should be enough left, ” says Pete Smith, a maize-plucker.
一位迷宫工人皮特·史密斯说:“兔子喜欢弄倒作物,但是剩下的应该不少”。
In a sense, the author of this pastiche, Seth Grahame-Smith, has turned Jane Austen into a zombie, reviving her text from the grave and turning it into a grisly version of the original.
从某种意义上来说,这一模仿小说的作者塞司•葛拉汉•史密斯在使简•奥斯汀的作品从坟墓中复苏并将其改写成恐怖作品的同时,也将奥斯汀本人变成了僵尸。
Mr Toscano recalls that, when he was a young man about to go on his mission, he mentioned to his bishop (roughly the equivalent of a parish priest) that Joseph Smith was a polygamist.
托斯卡诺回忆说,当天还是个即将踏上传教之路的年轻人时,他对他的主教(大致相当于一个教区牧师)说约瑟·斯密是个多配偶论者。
"It's important to have a broad view of stress management," says Stephanie Smith, psy. D., a psychologist with the APA.
“对压力管理有个广泛的认识很重要,”APA的心理学家心理学博士斯蒂芬妮·史密斯说。
A: Sorry, Mr. Smith is in a meeting. I'll ask him to call you back later.
对不起,史密斯先生正在开会,我会请他稍后给你回电话。
Tony Smith, the coach of the Canadian gymnastics team, said that he was astonished when a niggling pain in his back vanished after a single acupuncture session.
加拿大体操队教练托尼史密斯说,一次针灸治疗后,他背部的酸痛消除了,这让他吃惊。
Mr Smith cites a figure for his firm's annual sales growth that would make a taipan raise his eyebrows.
史密斯先生引用了他公司每年销售额增长的一个令富商都会吃惊的数字。
One person keeping a careful watch on the situation is Barton Smith, a University of Houston economist who provides economic forecasts for the city.
休斯敦大学的经济学家史密斯正在密切关注目前的局势,他对休斯敦的经济前景进行了预测。
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