We call ourselves a utilitarian age, and we do not know the USES of any single thing.
我们称我们的时代为注重实用的时代，可没有一样东西的用途弄得明白。
I can't be sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke.
我不能确定，当然，不过我可以把这种方式和光靠吃豆腐和豆奶过日子的方式作比较，我们把自己称作素食主义者，这是我们内部之间的一个小玩笑。
"We call ourselves' geeks for good, '" says Brown, who is 29 years old and, like many of his cohort, began his career working for a dot-com company.
“我们称自己为向善的I.T呆子”Brown说，他今年29岁，和很多同事一样，他的职业生涯始于一家互联网公司。
"One challenge we face is that we call ourselves group dating," said Sachs. "There's a stigma or taboo about the concept of dating that makes people cautious."
“我们面临的一个挑战是把自己称为集体约会，”Sachs称，“约会这个概念与污名和禁忌有关，容易让人产生警觉。”
But don't call too often or speak too loudly or whine too much, we told ourselves, or else they'll get an noyed and she'll get fired and the summers will end.
但是，我们告诫自己：不要打太多电话，不要说得太大声，也不要在电话里过多地诉苦，要不然他们就会生气，妈妈就会被解雇，美好的夏日也就完结了。
We believe that films should not be made behind closed doors; we can't call ourselves the 'Hollywood of the east' and then just compete with other film industries.
我们知道拍电影绝对不能闭门造车；我们不能称我们自己为‘东方好莱坞’然后就与其他电影公司竞争。
All I could do was look at him and shake my head and wonder how we can even call ourselves Americans anymore.
我能做的就是摇头看着他，思考我们如何还能再称自己为美国人。
I suspect that when we call a problem by its incorrect name, we prevent ourselves from seeing clear, common-sense solutions.
我猜想如果我们用错误的词描述一个问题，就会妨碍我们寻求清楚的、常识的解决方法。
The night this happened, we now affectionately call "Fright Night", because we scared ourselves to death.
故事发生的那晚，我们现在亲切的称其为“惊魂夜”，因为那晚我们吓得要死。
It's what makes us who we are. Without food, could we really even call ourselves human?
食物造就了我们，没有食物，我们能算是人吗？
"January 12 was a very strong wake-up call for everybody in the country; we will never let ourselves be caught by surprise again," said Thomas.
“1月12日对于这个国家的每一个人来说，都是一声强烈的警钟；从此以后，我们再也不会让自己被灾难吓得手足无措。”Thomas说。
Hesitant to call ourselves literati, not only because we are far away from our cultural roots, but also because we departed from our motherland, the soil where we were born and grown up.
不敢自称文化人，不仅因我们远离文化的经脉，远离祖国，那生我养我的土壤！
If we're honest for a minute, if we reflect privately just for a moment, if we allow ourselves a glimpse into that shadowy place we call our soul, isn't that why we're here now?
让我们坦诚片刻，让我们各自反省片刻，让我们往内心那个叫做灵魂的阴暗角落撇上一眼，那不正是我们有今日的原因么？
Many of us have experienced ourselves allowing something to happen with ease. We call it a "zone," where everything just happens perfectly when we get out of the way and we allow it to happen.
我们称之为“地带”，一个当我们以无为的态度去允许某事发生时，一切事都只是完美地发生的境界。
When we say "everlasting delight", we are contradicting ourselves no less than when we call a circle four-cornered or a motion motionless.
我们说永远快乐，正好像说四方的圆形，静止的动作同样地自相矛盾。
We all have a wealth of prior knowledge and understanding, which we can call upon and bring to bear on any new situation in which we find ourselves.
译文：我们都有着丰富的已有知识和理解，不管我们身处任何新的环境这些知识和理解都可以被调用并产生作用。
So we've committed ourselves to a sustained, effective program of international cooperation on national [sic] security, and we call on other nations to join us.
这包括加强国家法律和政策，全面履行我们一致同意的承诺。
We cannot call ourselves the hardest when we see others working harder than us.
当我们看到别人比我们更加刻苦的时后，我们就不能自诩为最刻苦的人了。
We cannot call ourselves the hardest when we see others working harder than us.
当我们看到别人比我们更加刻苦的时后，我们就不能自诩为最刻苦的人了。
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