The manager and the businessman talked for a long period of time, but when he was asked for advice, the businessman stopped for a while and then said, "I have no advice to give."
经理和商人谈了很长一段时间，但当商人被问及建议时，他停顿了一会儿，然后说：“我没有什么建议可以给你。”
Then, after trying, they were asked how quickly they’d become good at it. But this time they were pessimistic and thought it’d take them longer to learn than it actually did.
第一次的挫败似乎打击了他们的信心，当再次被问及需要多长时间熟练掌握技能时，他们悲观的答案却又比实际所需时间要长。
Then she asked all the children had any of them eaten it — by mistake, of course — but the children all said no and looked as if they did not like to eat cakes if they were to be accused of stealing.
最后她把所有的孩子都问了一遍，是不是有谁吃了——当然是拿错了——可是孩子们都说没有吃，而且脸上的神情仿佛是在说：要是冤枉他们偷嘴，他们就不喜欢吃蛋糕了。
Scientists asked volunteers to gorge on fast food and be less active for four weeks, expecting them to put on weight but then return to their normal size.
科学家们要求志愿者们在四周的时间里拚命食用快餐，并降低活动量，希望他们增加体重，然后再重新回到正常的体型。
Then they were asked to rate cookies bytasting at least one (but up to eight) cookies presented on a plate.
当被要求吃盘子里的饼干（至少一块，最多八块）并给出评价。
But then the Germans asked the Afghans to help secure the road to allow asecond patrol to drive through the ambush point.
他们要求阿富汗警察帮助他们把守道路安全，好让第二排的运兵车可以通过伏击点。
After looking at the photos, they were asked to count backward from 8, 211 by 7s, then look at another picture of a person they knew but were not in love with, then count backward again.
看完照片之后，他们被要求从8211开始倒数，每隔7个数数一次，数完后再看另一个人的照片，他们与此人相识但不相爱，然后再倒数。
"Remember what we talked about?" I asked her after the contraction ended. "How it hurts but then it stops?"
宫缩过后我问她：“记得我们说过什么吗？他是如何的疼痛，但一会它又是怎么停止的？”
"Ships in a harbor are safe, but that's not what ships are meant for," he responded 27 cryptically, then asked, "Did you agree with all I required you to do?"
“停泊在港湾里的船只很安全，可那不是船的使命，”他意味深长地回答，然后问我，“你赞成我所有的要求么？”
The children in the experiment are then asked, not where the chocolate is, but which cupboard Maxi will look in.
实验者问参加实验的孩子：Maxi会到哪个橱柜找巧克力？
The scientists then asked each group to participate in one of two unpleasant tasks. Some were told to finish a healthy but ill-tasting drink (akin to taking one's medicine).
科学家们随后要求两组的参加者进行一项让人不舒服的任务，一共有两种情况：有些些人被要求喝完一杯健康、但是很难合的音频（和吃药差不多）；而另外一些则被要求把手伸到冰水里面。
But then, who doesn’t love their country?” she asked rhetorically.
但谁不爱自己的国家呢？”她小心翼翼的问道。
Then they asked a separate group of specialists to look both at their experimental patients and at a group of people with similar brain injuries but no transplant.
之后他们请来一批专科医生来检查这些植入干细胞的患者与没有植入干细胞的相似脑外伤患者空白对照组。
"But then, why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?" asked the American.
“那么，你为什么不待久一点去捉更多的鱼呢”，美国人问道。
But Wenger was then asked if his best 11 could stand up to Guardiola's and others at the top of the European game.
温格之后被问及他的最佳的11人球队能否经受来自瓜迪奥拉的球队或者其他欧洲顶级球队的挑战。
Then, after trying, they were asked how quickly they'd become good at it. But this time they were pessimistic and thought it'd take them longer to learn than it actually did.
然而，在他们尝试之后，当再次被问及何时能够上手时，这次他们都比较消极了，并且认为他们会花比实际操作时更多的时间。
Then the king asked the jugglers and the others, but no one knew anything about me.
接着国王就问那些杂耍师和其它人，但没有人知道任何有关我的事。
Since the children were too old for the baby-staring trick, but unable to answer the question: "How many?", researchers laid out counters, then put them away and asked the children to "do as I did".
由于这些儿童的年龄已经不适合对婴儿使用的注视点研究方法，但他们却不能回答“某物有多少”的问题，研究者们摆出一些计数器，把它们放在一边后研究者要求这些儿童跟着他们做。
"If my boyfriend asked me now, then I would still say 'yes', but I wouldn't waste my money for a high-profile wedding," Jenny Brown, an employee works in London's central financial district.
在伦敦中心金融区工作的珍妮·布朗说：“如果男友现在向我求婚，我还是会答应，但我不会浪费很多钱去大操大办。”
He then asked her to walk into the house — but she declared herself not tired, and they stood together on the lawn.
他请她到屋子里去坐坐，她说并不累，两个人便一块儿站在草地上。
At first he started to get really upset, but then he turned around and asked them why they were laughing.
一开始表弟感到很不是滋味，然后他转身问他们笑什么。
But I'm hungry, where to go for dinner? Mother asked me. Then we went to the thousand ramen.
可是我都饿了，去哪里吃饭呢?妈妈问我。后来我们又去了味千拉面。
My diet has improved a little. I am still allowed the odd McDonald's meal but will then be asked a loaded question: "would you like some fruit too?"
我的胃口有所改善，姬玛允许我吃麦当劳，但总要加上一个问题，“你是不是要再吃些水果？。”
"Well, then, excuse my curiosity," the one with the freckled voice asked, "but who lives here?"
请原谅我的好奇。“那个带雀斑的问我，”那谁住这儿呢？
Second stage: Subjects were then asked to repeat the movements, while awake but lying in a bed
第二阶段：被研究者被要求躺在床上，但保持清醒时重复这些动作
I know because when I ask them to do something, they seem excited to be asked, but then quickly duck their heads and whisper out, “Sarah could do a better job of it than me.”
当我拜托他们做些什么时，他们似乎很高兴能做点什么，但是没过多久，他们就垂下头，小声说到：“莎拉比我做得更好。”
But then you're asked, "Hey, are you on Facebook?"
然后，有人在问“hey你在上facebook吗？”
But, then one day, I asked my grandmother what she collected. And she told me she was a dream collector.
不过，接着有一天，我问我的奶奶她收藏什么。她告诉我她是一个梦想收藏家。
But, then one day, I asked my grandmother what she collected. And she told me she was a dream collector.
不过，接着有一天，我问我的奶奶她收藏什么。她告诉我她是一个梦想收藏家。
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