Yet this most fundamental standard of historical periodization conceals a host of paradoxes.
然而,这种历史分期最基本的标准掩盖了大量的悖论。
This ecosystem is one of the fascinating paradoxes of the biosphere: how do clear, and thus nutrient-poor, waters support such prolific and productive communities?
这个生态系统是生物圈中令人着迷的悖论之一:清澈而又缺乏营养的水域是如何支撑如此多产的群落的?
Such apparent paradoxes are far from uncommon.
这样明显的悖论并不稀罕。
Do closed timelike curves necessarily lead to paradoxes?
封闭的时间型曲线一定会导致矛盾吗?
At its birth, modernity was filled with paradoxes and strains.
现代性自诞生伊始就充满了矛盾和张力。
The secret to understanding and managing apparent paradoxes is in the timing.
掌握并处理显性悖论(paradoxes)的秘诀就是适时而动。
In fact, today I want to offer what I call the Five Great Paradoxes of the New Economy.
实际上,今天我要提出我所谓的新经济五大悖论。
As I've thought about happiness, I've been struck by the many paradoxes of happiness.
在我对快乐进行思考的时候,一直碰到了快乐悖论。
The old sage may even help us to unravel one of modernity's central paradoxes, she adds.
这位古老的贤人甚至可能帮助我们解决现代社会的中心矛盾,她补充道。
The old sage may even help us to unravel one of modernity’s central paradoxes, she adds.
这位古老的贤人甚至可能帮助我们解决现代社会的中心矛盾,她补充道。
As I've worked on my Happiness Project, I've been struck by the paradoxes I kept confronting.
在我开始自己的快乐项目后一直以来都被自己所遇到的悖论而惊讶。
ONE of the paradoxes of human biology is that the rich world has fewer children than the poor world.
人类生物学里有一个自相矛盾的现象,那就是富裕的地方的孩子比贫穷地方的少。
ONE of the biggest paradoxes in human biology is that as societies grow richer, people have fewer children.
人类生物学中一个最大悖论在于:随着社会逐渐富足,人们的子女逐渐减少。
If so, science fiction could become science fact, with wonderful paradoxes such as effects preceding their causes.
若消息属实,科幻小说里那些桥段,比如先果后因这类神叨叨的悖论就都成了科学事实。
But there are all sorts of paradoxes in the way narcissists behave. Here are three that this research helps explain.
但是自恋者的行为方式有各种各样的矛盾。
‘One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes,’ Mr Weiler said.
“这个时间旅行的方法有吸引力的事情之一,是它避免了所有的大悖论。” 维勒说。
Yet one of life's sharpest paradoxes is that your brightest future hinges on your ability to pay attention to the present.
但是生活中最明显的似非而是的说法之一是:你最光明的未来依赖于你专注于现在的能力。
'One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes,' Mr Weiler said.
“这个时间旅行的方法有吸引力的事情之一,是它避免了所有的大悖论。”维勒说。
Humor springs from exaggeration, wordplay, misunderstandings, ambiguity, contradictions, paradoxes, pain, and inconsistencies.
幽默来自于夸张,双关语,误解,歧义,矛盾,似是而非,痛苦和前后不一。
One of the reasons might be because of a well-known problem with time travel to the past, the problem of what we call paradoxes.
其中一个众所周知的原因可能是:我们把穿越时空回到过去叫做似非而是的论点。
Any kind of time travel to the past through wormholes or any other method is probably impossible, otherwise paradoxes would occur.
由于自相矛盾,任何方式回到过去的时间旅行或者其他的方法都是不可能的。
It's one of the great paradoxes of life that we all want to be happy, yet so few of us seem to know exactly where happiness comes from.
这是人生中一个重大的悖论:所有人都希望自己幸福,但似乎能真正知道幸福感源头的人却寥寥无几。
signage throughout the facility advises workers to combat rogue robots by shouting paradoxes like "This sentence is false" at them.
实验室的标牌劝说工人们对流氓机器人大喊诸如“这句话是假的”这样似是而非的话,同他们作战。
signage throughout the facility advises workers to combat rogue robots by shouting paradoxes like "This sentence is false" at them.
实验室的标牌劝说工人们对流氓机器人大喊诸如“这句话是假的”这样似是而非的话,同他们作战。
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