Why is English now considered to be so prestigious that, across the globe, individuals and societies feel disadvantaged if they do not have competence in this language?
为什么英语现在被视为如此有声望的语言,以至于在全球范围内,如果个人和团体没有掌握这门语言,就会感到自身处于不利地位?
In 1901 he succeeded in signaling across the Atlantic, from the west coast of England to Newfoundland in the USA, despite the claims of science that it could not be done.
1901年,尽管科学界声称这是不可能的,他仍成功地跨越大西洋发出信号,从英格兰西海岸发射,一直到美国的纽芬兰。
I no longer want to be friends with her but I don't know how to get the message across.
我再也不想和她做朋友了,但我不知道如何告诉她。
If an interactive computer screen is to match a whiteboard in usefulness, it must be viewable from arm's length as well as from across a room.
如果一个交互式计算机屏幕要在实用性上与白板相匹配,它必须在手臂长度范围和横跨房间范围内是可视的。
A bluish ribbon of light stretching from left to right across the picture might be a knot of gas ejected by the supernova.
一个从左延伸至右穿过整幅图片的浅蓝色光可能是由超新星喷发出的气体的集结体。
It's not unusual to be sitting in a restaurant and to look across at the next table and see film stars and directors with their friends.
在餐馆里偶遇邻桌是电影明星和导演以及他们的朋友们,这并不罕见。
It can be seen from the cheapest budget airlines to the world's largest carriers: Airlines across the globe integrate various shades of blue in their cabin seats, and it is no coincidence.
从最便宜的廉价航空公司到世界上最大的航空公司,我们可以看到:全球的航空公司都在他们的机舱座椅上融入了各种深浅不一的蓝色,这并非巧合。
Should the cars be programmed to avoid hitting a child running across the road, even if that will put their passengers at risk?
在会威胁到乘客安全的前提下,该不该把汽车设计为防误撞横穿马路儿童的模式?
In order to match multiple certificates, these OU fields must be consistent across certificates and appear in the same sequence.
为了匹配多个证书,这些OU字段必须跨证书保持一致并按同一顺序显示。
We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.
我们需要接受这个事实,在地球上的大部分地区,很少或根本没有处理的废物将有充分的理由用于农业。
So the need to quickly recognise things that could be helpful or harmful could have had a great influence on rock art and explain why some images are more common across cultures than others.
因此,快速识别事物是有益还是有害的需求可能对摇滚艺术产生了巨大的影响,并解释了为什么一些形象在不同文化中比其他的更常见。
Nurses and other care-givers need to be aware of the possible meanings of silence when they come across the personal anxiety their patients may be experiencing.
当护士和其他护理人员发现病人可能正在面临个人焦虑时,他们需要认识到沉默的潜在意义。
The fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.
几代人对自动驾驶汽车的态度似乎没有太大改变,这一事实表明,向无人驾驶汽车的转变可能会带来巨大的变革。
We will be able to see the whole green wall across Africa in the near future!
在不久的将来,我们就可以看到横跨整个非洲的绿色墙了!
Inspection technology allows more than 100 million measurements a second to be made across the ribbon, locating flaws the unaided eye would be unable to see.
检测技术可以在一秒钟内对玻璃带进行超过1亿次的测量,从而定位肉眼无法看到的瑕疵。
But my dreams lie shattered across the desks of the seed merchants who insist there is no mangel seed to be found.
但我的梦想破灭了,散落在种子商人的桌子上,他们坚持说找不到甜菜种子。
It isn't actually known how many sites there are across Australia where rock art can be found—but unfortunately, we do know that much of the art is being lost to us.
目前还不知道在澳大利亚有多少地方能够发现这种岩石艺术;但不幸的是,我们知道有很多艺术作品正在消失。
Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.
这天早上,全英国的妈妈都会在床上吃烤面包片,而大一点的儿子女儿们会送上在超市买的一束束鲜花。
After all, we're brought up to be polite, and it is important to make a good impression upon other people—especially across national divides.
毕竟,我们从小就被教育要有礼貌,给别人留下好印象很重要,面对国家间的差异就更要如此。
This 'megalopolis' was reported to be composed of 360 million workers and a million queens living in 4,500 interconnected nests across a territory of 2.7 square kilometres.
据报道,这个“特大城市”由3.6亿只工蚁和100万名蚁后组成,他们居住在4500个相互连接的巢穴中,这些巢穴分布在2.7平方公里的土地上。
As they drove up the street, there started to be a rumbling sound heard across the ground.
他们驱车驶过街道时,地面上开始传来隆隆的声音。
In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at the music students, struggling across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, turning up at school for practice hours before anyone else had to be there.
在高中的头几年,加布里埃尔会可怜地看着那些学音乐的学生,他们带着沉重的乐器箱在校园里艰难地穿行,比其他人都早几个小时来到学校练习。
You might be surprised to hear that the number of people sleeping rough in London has doubled in the last five years and has increased by 30% across the rest of the country during the last two years.
听到这些你可能会很惊讶,过去五年中伦敦露宿街头的人数已经翻倍,而且近两年全国其他地方的露宿人数增加了30%。
BBC employees will soon be required to work across all media to help reduce this duplication.
BBC的员工不久将被要求跨越所有媒体进行工作以减少重复。
In a hospital information system (HIS) scenario, all the activities in the system have to be sent across to another HIS system for some additional processing.
假设在一个医院信息系统(HIS)中,必须要将系统中的所有活动信息发送到另一个HIS系统中以做另外的处理。
Your messaging framework must be able to communicate across an array of applications and enterprise resources.
您的消息传递框架必须能够在一组应用和企业资源之间进行通信。
Since the context object needs to be passed across components, the object should be serializable.
因为需要跨组件传递上下文对象,所以这个对象应该是可序列化的。
The ESB should be able to interoperate across the services using all these technologies.
ESB应该能够跨使用所有这些技术的服务进行互操作。
They are intended to be reusable across these two types of processes.
它们设计为可跨这两种类型的流程进行重用。
They are intended to be reusable across these two types of processes.
它们设计为可跨这两种类型的流程进行重用。
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