格林解释了妈妈唠叨的三个原因，并提出了三个建议。
Green explains three reasons for mom's nagging and offers three suggestions.
换句话说，我们觉得必须唠叨的事实也证实了唠叨起不了作用。
In other words, the very fact that we feel we must nag is itself evidence that nagging doesn't work.
我的老板什么都挺好，就是老是嘱咐我要按时上班，唠叨个没完。实际上，我即便晚到也从来不会超过五分钟，而那也只是在公共汽车晚到的时候才会发生。
I like my boss except for one thing — he's always nagging me about getting to work on time. I'm never more than five minutes late, and that's only when the bus doesn't show up on time.
我的太太在我抽烟的问题上真是爱唠叨，为了要我戒烟她成天说个没完。
My wife is such a nag about my smoking - she keeps after me all day long to stop it.
停止唠叨可能意味着放弃控制他人的幻想。
Maybe giving up nagging only means giving up the delusion of control.
女士们，你不用向某人唠叨，要他收拾堆在洗碗池里的餐具，或倒掉垃圾。
Ladies, you wouldn't have to constantly nag someone to take care of the dishes piling up in the sink or take out the trash.
巴罗是正确的，毕竟，她认为我们会对爱的人唠叨，——这就是为什么你让我停止唠叨，就好像是让我停止爱他们一样。
Barrow was right, after all, when she said we nag the people we care about — which is why if you ask me to give up nagging, it feels as if you're asking me to give up caring.
我的老板什么都挺好，就是老是嘱咐我要按时上班，唠叨个没完。实际上，我即便晚到也从来没有超过五分钟的，而那也只是在公共汽车晚到的时候才会发生。
I like my boss except for one thing - he's always nagging me about getting to work on time. I'm never more than five minutes late, and that's only when the bus doesn't show up on time.
很多时候，我们都企图通过挽救、唠叨或事无巨细的管教来确保孩子的生存问题，这样做的后果就是：没有我们孩子根本无法去面对这个纷繁复杂的世界。
Too often, we attempt to ensure survival by rescuing, nagging or micromanaging, and we end up with children unprepared to face the world without us.
当人类的孩子开始学习说话的时候，他们就知道随意打断别人说话是不礼貌的。虽然，这也许需要父母在耳边唠叨个不停，他们才能铭记这一规则。
As human children learn to talk, they begin to pick up on the rule that interrupting is not allowed-although it may take some parental nagging for the rule to sink in.
我并不想像个老爷爷一样喋喋不休，跟大家唠叨要如何为新加坡培育良好的下一代。
I don't want to sound like a grandfather nagging on how to bring up good children for Singapore.
这是一个很有意思的方法，可以逐渐灌输给孩子责任感和拥有权的概念，而且不用唠叨或责备的方式。
It's a fun way to instill responsibility and ownership without resorting to nagging or scolding. Here's how it works.
唠叨并不会起作用，这便是唠叨最后也是最关键的问题。
Which leads to the final, and most crucial, problem with nagging: it simply doesn't work.
毕竟，要让海狮学会用鼻尖顶球，唠唠叨叨是办不到的。
After all, you don't get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of its nose by nagging.
随在美国及其他地区的购物季节的开始，孩子们已经开始向他们的父母唠叨索求最新款式的玩具。
As the holiday shopping season kicked off in America and elsewhere, children have started nagging their parents for the latest toys.
简无休止的唠叨开始使他心烦。
也就是说，当他们抱怨、唠叨或作出一些让他们或您感到沮丧的事情时，不要对此进行回应。
Meaning, when they complain or gossip or do anything to bring themselves and you down, don't react.
儿子可能听到的只是唠叨，但是如果他认真听的话，他就能听到那唠叨后面的爱意。
The son may hear only the nagging, but if he listens carefully, he will hear the love underneath the nagging.
除此以外，我唯一不断向乔治唠叨起的就是能不能让我穿上达斯·维达的盔甲。
Aside from that, the only thing that I ever nag at George is whether or not I'm going to get to wear Darth Vader's outfit.
这类消息会让数百万的人后悔为什么小时没有听从父母的唠叨，坚持练习钢琴。
It's the type of news which will make millions of people wish they'd listened to their parents' nagging about keeping up the piano lessons.
我们还需要多少研究来告诉我们，母亲们唠叨着要孩子“吃你的蔬菜！”是多么的正确。
How many more studies need to be commissioned to show us that our mothers were right each time they admonished us to "eat your veggies!"
她上了年纪，好唠叨，她故去的丈夫是典当商，为了某种虔诚的原因收集邮票。
She was an old, garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose.
我也感到震动，因为我意识到自己唠叨更多地是出于非理智的情感而不是现实。
I am also struck by the realization that what I choose to nag about may have more to do with my irrational fears than with reality.
艾米：一年一次，我和我妈说好了，这样她就不唠叨这事，还可以偶尔用她的乔治·富曼烤架，锁住美味，没有脂肪。
Amy: Once a year. It's a deal I made with my mother in exchange for her silence on the matter, as well as the occasional use of her George Foreman Grill that seals in the flavor without the fat.
像往常一样，当他的父母不喜欢他的穿着时，便开始唠叨他。
As usual, when his parents don't like what he wears, they start to bug him.
沉没并不是智慧的标志，但唠叨却永远是一种蠢行。——本杰明·富兰克林。
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly. — Benjamin Franklin.
沉默并不是智慧的标志，但唠叨永远是一项蠢行。
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly. --Benjamin Franklin.
他认为，唠叨看起来起作用，因为“它会带来短期的看似积极的结果。”
Nagging appears to work, he says, because "it will produce a short-term result that looks positive."
虽然他依然唠叨金融市场的无根据谣言(而且他说的有道理)，但是萨帕特罗先生更加务实，他主张：“要彰显还债能力，没有什么比公开透明更好的了。”
While still grumbling about unfounded rumours in financial markets (and he has a point), a more realistic Mr Zapatero argued: "There is nothing better than transparency to demonstrate solvency."
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