Some people worry that their relative lack of experience may keep women quiet on boards, and that in turn could mean that boards might become less able to hold managers to account.
一些人担心，女性相对缺乏经验可能会使她们在董事会中保持沉默，而这反过来可能意味着，董事会更不可能让管理者承担责任。
Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean.
延长寿命在医学上变得越来越可行，但它往往是一种被剥夺了一切的生命，而且随着资源变得过度紧张和政治变得卑鄙，生命会暴露在令人堕落的忽视之中。
But their desire to blaze their own policy trails doesn't mean they'll turn down checks from Washington when available.
但是他们实行新政的愿望并不意味着会减少对华盛顿的资金要求。
Japan's falling birth rates mean older voters are potent, making some younger Japanese feel disenfranchised as retirees turn out en masse to protect their benefits.
日本人口出生率连年下降，意味着老龄选民具备很强的影响力，由于退休人员联合起来保护自己的利益，一部分年轻一代的日本人觉得自己的权利被剥夺。
Satellites have continually monitored polar sea ice since 1979, and since the turn of the twenty-first century, Arctic sea ice has declined relative to its 1979–2000 mean extent.
自1979年以来，卫星一直在监测极地周围的海冰情况，而到21世纪以来，北极的海洋结冰范围已降至1979-2000年的平均水平。
For a far fuller sense of what climate change might mean to a specific city, turn to the chapter on London in Mr Kohn's "Turned Out Nice", a tour DE force of information and speculation.
为了更深远地了解气候变化对一个特定城市意味着什么，Kohn先生的书写了关于伦敦的一章节“结果成了尼斯”，一个信息和思考推测的精心杰作。
The building of a real-life version of "Maxwell's demon" – which can turn information into useful energy – might mean that future nanomachines can be powered purely by information.
建造“麦斯威尔妖”的现实生活版本——它可以把信息转变为有用的能量——意味着未来的毫微级计算机可能纯粹地依靠信息来作为动力。
So, does this mean you should turn off the shower and go back to old-fashioned baths?
于是，这个是否意味着你必须关掉你的蓬蓬头，回归到老式的浴盆？
Luckily, if your body needs to heat up more, you will burn more calories, so this might mean that it is actually better for you if you should choose to turn the heating down a couple of degrees.
幸运的是，如果你的身体需要热量，你可以燃烧更多的卡路里，这就意味着实际上是更好的，所以你应该选择把暖气下降一些温度。
And indeed when we consider slaughterhouses where animals mean only money, such knowledge is enough to turn one off meat for life.
确实，当我们一想到屠宰场——动物在那里只是被当做换钱的工具，这就足够让我们倒胃口。
The bad news for America is that this, in turn, may mean that the world also has less need of the dollar.
但对于美国，无疑是个坏消息，换言之，这也许意味着世人对美元的需求业已减少。
Advertisers would then be willing to pay more, which would in turn mean that consumers prepared to opt into such things could be offered a richer and broader range of free online services.
广告商因此乐意付出更多的广告费用，相反，这意味着准备选择这些商品的消费者将被提供更加丰富、更大范围的免费的在线服务。
Now that doesn’t mean you can’t turn to your cadre of trusted advisors.
这并不是说你不能求助于自己的得力干将或信任的顾问。
We very, very much hope that the greatest businessman, CEO and product developer of our era is doing okay, and that this decision does not mean his health has taken a turn for the worse.
我们真的真的希望我们时代作为伟大的商人，首席执行官和制造开发商的乔帮主一切安好，同时，这样的辞职也并不表明了他健康状况已经恶化。
Maybe I made a big mistake by likening it to an organic chemistry course--I don't mean to turn you off.
也许我把金融市场学跟有机化学进行类比是个很大的错误- 我并没打算让你们感到厌烦。
A beach holiday doesn't mean you have to turn into a cooked lobster. Stay safe, lather up on the sunscreen and drink lots of water.
沙滩假日不一定要把人弄的跟个煮龙虾似的：找个阴凉处躲着大太阳，浑身涂满防晒霜，大口大口地喝水。
You're famous in programming circles. But being famous doesn't necessarily mean you can turn a profit and support yourself.
这个级别的程序员虽然在圈子里很有名，但是成为名人并不意味着你可以靠这个获取收入甚至是养活你自己。
So let's turn to the real tastemakers, the Jackson family, to see how they are mourning their cash cow, I mean, son and brother.
那么就让我们把目光转向真正培育迈克尔这位奇才的地方- - -杰克逊的家人，看一看他们是如何怀念他们的家庭支柱，我的意思是，儿子以及兄弟的。
Maybe I made a big mistake by likening it to an organic chemistry course — I don't mean to turn you off.
也许将其比作有机化学课，是个错误，我不是故意想倒你们胃口的。
Experienced entrepreneurs learn to clearly distinguish between real success and the many proxies which mean little but can turn your head.
老练的企业家知道如何清晰辨别真正的成功，如何剔除纷繁芜杂的成功表象，而不会被这些一无是处的表象迷惑而变得高傲起来。
That, in turn, would mean reducing current departmental spending by around 2.6% of GDP.
这反过来意味着降低大约GDP2.6 %的当前部门支出。
Having this infrastructure in place would also mean you could turn your car on remotely and set the temperature before you even leave your house or office.
有了这个在地方基础设施也将意味着你可以远程打开你的车前，你设定的温度甚至离开你的房子或办公室。
But that doesn't necessarily mean a significant turn toward protectionism.
但这并不一定意味着会出现通往保护主义的重大转向。
This statement could easily be construed to mean that when Apple releases the updated firmware that is OS 3.1, AT&T will be ready to turn on MMS functionality.
这个说法很容易就会被解读成当苹果发布OS3.1固件更新时，AT&也将会启用彩信服 功能。
This statement could easily be construed to mean that when Apple releases the updated firmware that is OS 3.1, AT&T will be ready to turn on MMS functionality.
这个说法很容易就会被解读成当苹果发布OS3.1固件更新时，AT&也将会启用彩信服 功能。
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