A thought experiment, in which Adam, the first man newly created by God, sees one billiard ball moving towards another, is asked to predict what is going to happen.
这个实验是关于亚当的，上帝创造出来的第一个人，当他看到一个球向另一个球移动的时候，会预测发生什么样的情况呢。
God took a rib from Adam when he was asleep one night. From Adam's rib, God made Eve.
有一天夜里上帝趁亚当睡着时从他身上取出一根肋骨，用亚当的肋骨，上帝造出了夏娃。
Adam is just being created by God he sees one billiard ball moving towards another, put your self in his position.
亚当是由上帝所创造的，他看到一颗球向另一颗球移动，设身处地想象一下。
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。
Allen pulled off one of the most surprising wins in the show's nearly decade-long history by taking the crown from the theatrical powerhouse , Adam Lambert.
在美国偶像节目近十年的历史中，亚当算得上最“黑”的一匹黑马----毕竟他的对手是华丽张扬的实力派亚当·兰伯特。
Obviously I didn't see that one [from Charlie Adam] coming, it was from the side.
但是那一次，我压根就没看到查理·亚当冲向我，他是从侧面进行铲断。
Reason convinced him in particular that Adam Smith was right, that through its invisible hand the market benefited profit-seeking individuals (of whom he was one) and society alike.
这个理由能够说服他，尤其是因为他确信，亚当·斯密是对的。通过那只“看不见的手”，市场可以让追求利润的个人(他就是其中之一)和社会受益。
This is a species "that no one has seen before and one that has a very significant position in the family tree of dinosaurs, " said Australian paleontologist Adam Yates.
澳洲古生物学家亚当叶茨说，这种恐龙「从前没有人见过，在恐龙族谱上有非常重要的地位。」
Adam: This plate has a whole herd of bacteria, with one frosty-looking colony in the middle.
亚当：这个培养皿中有个完整的微生物群，中间那个看起来像雪花的是外来入侵者。
One is the Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith. The other is the Meditations [of Marcus Aurelius]. There are too many memoirs selling nowadays. I don't like reading those books.
一本是亚当·史密斯的《道德精神理论》，一本是马可·奥利斯·伍斯的《沉思录》，现在市面上有太多回忆录了，我不喜欢读这些书。
When I was breaking up with Adam, years ago, one of my big fear and hesitancy was that I would loose my editor, my proofreader, essentially my safety net for Think Simple Now.
几年前跟亚当分手时，最让我害怕迟疑的就是会失去我的编辑、我的校对、说到底就是我得以“简单思考”的安全网。
One reason is found in Adam Smith's famous story of the pin factory. Smith observed that the pin factory was so productive because it allowed workers to specialize.
原因之一从亚当·斯密著名的针厂故事中可见一斑，他发现针厂如此高效的原因是专业化分工。
I was sure that I had found at last the one true cosmopolite since Adam, and I listened to his worldwide discourse fearful lest I should discover in it the local note of the mere globe-trotter.
当时，我对自己发现了人类自亚当以来第一个真正的世界公民确定不疑，我聆听着他关于整个世界的高谈阔论，生怕自己会发现他只是带有环球旅行者的地方口音。
One day,Eve asked Adam,"Doyou really love me?"
一天 ,夏娃问亚当 :"你当真爱我吗 ?"
Just 15 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, they sell fishing equipment and rent canoes to locals like Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri and former Formula One racer Derek Daly.
他们卖渔具和租独木舟给当地人，如印第安纳波利斯雄马队（Indianapolis Colts）的球员亚当.维纳特里和前一级方程式赛车手德里克.戴利。
One Saturday I sat alone on the floor in our tiny apartment, piecing a quilt, when the CD changer switched to a Mos Def album that Adam had been listening to a few days before.
在某一个周六，我一个人坐在我俩那小小的公寓地板上缝着棉被。这时，CD播放器自动转接到了亚当早些日子听过的MosDef的专辑。
Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.
上主天主遂使人熟睡，当他睡着了，就取出了他的一根肋骨，再用肉补满原处。
Adam: Actually, I like the simplicity of choosing from only one manufacture's line of products.
亚当：事实上，我喜欢选择一个厂家生产线的产品，它操作要较为简单。
So already, alas, in Adam Smith's time, machinery had thrown from 240 to 4,800 pin-makers out of work for every one it kept.
这样看来，在亚当·斯密时代的扣针制造厂，每出现一个操作机器的劳工，就得有240到4 800名做扣针的劳工丢掉饭碗。
One of the Sons of Adam killed him.
是一个亚当的儿子杀了它。
Adam has one definite thing to say about his not yet defined company — it will be entertaining.
对于他这家还没有明确主题的公司，亚当有一样事情是确定的——它将是有趣的。
One day my friend Adam Grant, a psychologist, suggested that I think about how much worse things could be.
有一天，我的心理学家朋友亚当·格兰特建议我换个角度思考，想象事情可能会更糟糕。
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
然后上主天主说：「看，人已相似我们中的一个，知道了善恶；如今不要让他伸手再摘取生命树上的果子，吃了活到永远。」
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
然后上主天主说：「看，人已相似我们中的一个，知道了善恶；如今不要让他伸手再摘取生命树上的果子，吃了活到永远。」
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