I think if you can imagine of the many, many, many colonies there were, that would have been the usual arrangement.
我想，如果你们能想象那里曾有着无数的殖民地，这种情况一般是惯例。
Imagine waking up and finding the value of your assets has been halved.
想象一下，你一觉醒来发现自己资产的价值缩水了一半。
Close your eyes and imagine a ball of energy moving up your spine and into your heart.
闭上你的眼睛，想象一个能量球正从你的脊柱往上移动并进入你的心脏。
Language often seems so skillfully drafted that one can hardly imagine it as anything other than the perfected handiwork of a master craftsman.
通常，语言看上去是如此精心雕琢，以至于让人们很难想象它不是哪位能工巧匠的完美作品。
We are repeatedly willing to imagine we have found most of what is left to discover.
我们一再想象，我们已经找到了大部分有待发现的东西。
We must imagine the early Earth as a mixture of rocky materials, metals, and trapped gases, subject to constant bombardment by smaller planetesimals and without much of an atmosphere.
我们必须想象早期的地球是岩石材料、金属和封闭气的混合物，受到较小的星子的持续轰击，没有多少大气。
"You can imagine similar kinds of interactive activities along historical lines, like following the Freedom Trail in Boston," Professor Dede said.
“你可以想象类似的互动活动沿着历史的轨迹进行，比如追随波士顿的自由之路。”Dede教授说。
It is conceivable that before going hunting the hunters would draw or study pictures of animals and imagine a successful hunt.
可以想象，在狩猎之前，猎人会画出或研究动物的图片，并想象一次成功的狩猎。
So take another look at this drawing, and you can imagine how this design might be particularly helpful in that kind of climate.
所以再看一下这幅图，你就可以想象这种设计是如何在那种气候下特别有用的。
If you relate it to American cuisine, there is a lot of stuff that's different than what you would imagine.
如果你把它跟美式烹饪联系起来，有很多东西将跟你想象的不一样。
I imagine there are different kinds of paper—or things like paper clips that need to be removed.
我想像有各种各样的纸——或者像回形针之类需要拿掉的东西。
It's hard to imagine a bigger fight than one for the survival of a country's coasts and farms, the health of its people, and the stability of its economy.
很难想象还有什么比为一个国家的海岸和农场的生存、人民的健康和经济的稳定而战的更大的战斗了。
We might tan in the heat, or go red if we get embarrassed, but imagine if the color of your skin completely changed with your environment?
我们可能会在高温下晒黑，或者感到尴尬时脸红，但是想象一下，如果你的皮肤颜色完全随着环境的变化而改变呢?
Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name "Alice!"
使她大吃一惊的是，此时兔子用刺耳的嗓音尖叫道：“爱丽丝！”
Instead of being done with the exam, imagine that the system would immediately let you rewrite the test to try to improve your grade.
想象一下，系统将立即允许你重考测试，以提高成绩，而不是完成考试。
It is hard to imagine a world where the pastime of cooking is dead and meals can be created at the touch of a button.
很难想象，在这样一个世界里，烹饪这种消遣已经不复存在，人们只需按一下按钮就能做出饭菜来。
Imagine you are wandering about on a Thai island or admiring the ruins of Angkor.
想象一下，你正在泰国的一个小岛上漫步，或者在欣赏吴哥窟的遗迹。
Imagine the ID card as the body of an animal, the pencil its long neck, and the eraser its head.
把身份证想象成一个动物的身体，铅笔是它的长脖子，橡皮擦是它的头。
Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of height, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.
想象这样的一个世界：建造最高的摩天大厦不再是一场高度竞赛，而是一个关于能储存太阳能更多的竞赛。
And then, instead of being done with the exam, imagine that the system would immediately let you rewrite the test to try to improve your grade.
然后，与其就这样结束考试，想象一下这个系统会立即让你重考来提高分数。
I can imagine a defence lawyer making mincemeat of him if we ever put him up in court.
如果我们一旦让他出庭，我可以想象出辩护律师会把他驳斥得体无完肤。
You can't imagine that sales of these books in the UK reached 3,000,000 last year.
你简直无法想象这些书去年在英国的销量达到了300万册。
He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
他也可以在花盆里种一棵橡树，希望它茁壮成长，就像想象他可以让她在他那浅薄的关心中恢复活力一样！
When Hobbes tells that story, one can only imagine he must have had a kind of wry grin on his face when he wrote that out.
当霍布斯讲这个故事的时候，我们可以想象当他写出来的时候，他脸上呈现的会是怎样的苦笑。
On a societal level, one could even imagine that a lack of conversational flow may hamper the integration of immigrants who have not completely mastered the language of their new country yet.
在社会层面上，人们甚至可以想象，缺乏交流可能会阻碍尚未完全掌握新国家语言的移民们融入社会。
I imagine that's why he eventually turned the day-to-day running of the company over to his son.
我猜想那就是为什么他最终把公司的日常运营交给了他的儿子。
Imagine a book that never ends, a library with a million floors, or imagine a research project with thousands of scientists working around the clock forever.
想象一本永远不会有结局的书，一个有一百万层楼的图书馆，或者一个有着成千上万的科学家昼夜不停忙碌的研究项目。
It is almost impossible to imagine our society without thinking of the extraordinary achievements of scientists and engineers in building our complicated world.
如果不考虑科学家和工程师建设我们这个复杂的世界而取得的非凡成就，很难想象我们的社会会是如何。
I think it'll depend on what type of work you do in the excavation, but I imagine we can arrange something.
我想这取决于你在挖掘过程中所做的工作，但我想我们可以做一些安排。
I am no physicist, but I imagine you have all blown air over the top of an empty bottle and heard the sound it makes.
我不是物理学家，但我想你们都曾往一个空瓶子的顶部吹过气，并听到过它发出的声音。
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