Writing letters seems to be a thing of the past.
写信好像已是昔日的事情了。
When people have these cars in the future, a petrol station may be a thing of the past.
如果人们在未来能够拥有这些汽车，加油站可能会成为历史。
For deprived iPhone users, the crippled web might then be a thing of the past.
到时候，对于Iphone的使用者而言，残缺的网络时代已经是过去的事情。
Snow piles and drifts on highways and turnpikes may soon be a thing of the past.
雪堆和高速路、收费公路的雪痕将会成为过去。
Such nightmare visions, and locust plagues with them, may one day be a thing of the past.
但愿有一天这种噩梦似的景象和与此相伴的蝗灾将会成为历史。
Well, that uncertainty may be a thing of the past with a new topographical augmented reality app called Marmota.
好吧，这种不确定将随着一款叫做Marmota(山拨鼠)的地形增强实境应用程序的出现而成为过去。
If we spared the middleman and distributed those corn and grain crops directly to the poor and needy, world hunger would be a thing of the past.
如果我们抹掉这个中间环节，把那些玉米和谷物直接分配到贫穷和有需要的人受伤，世界饥饿很快就会成为历史。
Although parking enforcers no longer operate as bounty hunters, and wheel-clamping private vigilantes will soon be a thing of the past too, the public has yet to notice.
尽管停车管理执法者不再是赏金猎人，锁车轮私人卫士也将很快成为历史，但公众还没有注意到这一点。
A physical locale may be a thing of the past - you can't walk into Amazon, for instance - but fostering, bolstering, and rewarding customer loyalty is no less important.
实体店已是明日黄花—例如您无法步入Amazon—但培养、支持并回报忠实客户依旧重要。
This could be a thing as simple as a representation of a record in a database that consists of a mapping between column names and XML tags, where the element values in the XML contain the row values.
这可以像数据库中的记录表示形式一样简单，其中包括列名称与XML标记之间的映射，XML中的元素值包含行值。
You were the one that brought up the idea of blackmail. I'd never be a party to such a thing.
你是那个提出敲诈主意的人。我从来没想过参与这种事。
Chefs such as Delia Smith, Nigel Slater, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay made the public realise that cooking— and eating— didn't have to be a boring thing.
迪莉娅·史密斯、奈杰尔·斯莱特、杰米·奥利弗和戈登·拉姆齐等厨师让公众意识到，烹饪或者说饮食不一定是一件无聊的事情。
Now I know that for some people this might be quite a frightening thing to do, but it is perfectly safe.
现在我知道，对一些人来说，这做起来可能是一件相当可怕的事情，但它是完全安全的。
If you could find such a thing, that would be the universal final good, or truly the ultimate purpose or goal for all human beings.
如果你能找到这样一件事，那它应该是这个世界的终极善举，或者说是人类的终极目标。
One thing I forgot is if any of you has a cellphone be sure to put that number down.
我忘了一件事，如果你们谁有手机，记得把那号码写下来。
"The most important thing is to be honest," she says, without the trace of a blush.
“最重要的是要诚实。”她说道，丝毫不脸红。
Another thing would be, if a hatchling gets separated from the rest of its family, once the others get far enough away, its survival instinct kicks in.
另一件事是，如果幼崽和家族其他成员分开，一旦其他成员离得足够远，幼崽的生存本能就开始发挥作用。
The most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn't have to be a genius to set its wheels in motion.
然而，语言最非凡之处在于，一个人不必成为天才也能驾驭语言。
However, I do think that an element of stress is a good thing, and if used the right way, can actually be a positive thing.
然而，我认为压力元素确实是一件好事，且如果处理得当，它实际上是可以带来积极影响的事。
We should assure such students that risk, and even peer pressure, can be a good thing—as long as it happens in the classroom and not in the car.
我们应该向这些学生保证，风险甚至来自同辈的压力，都是一件好事——只要它发生在教室里，而不是在车上。
Emerging technologies—the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world—now seem a bit too old to be called "the next big thing".
无人机、3D打印机和智能家居设备这类的新兴技术现在似乎有点太过时了，不能被称之为“下一件大事”。
We should assure such students that risk, and even peer pressure, can be a good thing—as long as it happens in the classroom and not the car.
我们应该向此类学生保证，风险，甚至同龄人的压力都可能会成为一件好事——只要它发生在教室里，而非汽车里。
I do think that an element of stress is a good thing, and if used the right way, can actually be a positive thing.
我认为有一点压力是好事，如果处理得当，实际上它是可以带来积极影响的。
Animals have parasites or carry a variety of viruses. Once transmitted to humans, it would be a very troublesome thing.
动物有寄生虫或携带各种各样的病毒。一旦传染给人类，这将会是非常麻烦的事。
This is why researchers generally regard so-called moral guilt, in the right amount, to be a good thing.
正因如此，研究人员通常认为，所谓的道德负疚感，如若适量，会是好事。
Do this thing throughout your day, and you will be in a constant state of relaxation and enjoyment.
将这件事贯穿到你一天的生活中，那你将会处在放松和享受的恒定状态中。
He felt that being locked in the library didn't seem to be such a terrible thing.
他觉得被锁在图书馆里似乎并不是什么可怕的事情。
Meanwhile, emerging technologies—the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world—now seem a bit too old to be called "the next big thing".
与此同时，新兴技术——无人机、3D打印机和智能家居设备——现在看起来太老了，不能称之为“下一件大事”。
Those would be you, a human, and a grizzly bear, the thing that's approaching you alarmingly fast.
那就是你，一个人类，以及一头灰熊，它正在以惊人的速度向你奔来。
Those would be you, a human, and a grizzly bear, the thing that's approaching you alarmingly fast.
那就是你，一个人类，以及一头灰熊，它正在以惊人的速度向你奔来。
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