你八岁的小脑瓜是怎么琢磨出“过度投资”这样的大词的?
How did that eight-year-old brain of yours find its way around a big word like "overcapitalized"?
加上很多的形容词或大词,Feldberg说,这样会起到分散段落信息的作用。
Adding too many adjectives or big words, Feldberg says, will only serve to distract from the message.
小贴士:演讲中尽量少用复杂的公式、不常用的大词,不要用太多的数据,以免把听众吓跑。
Tips: Limit complex formulations, big words, and too many statistics in your speech to avoid losing your audience.
所以当我继续的时候,我的左脑就一直在快进看看是否还有任何其他的大词会出现。
So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
这些听起来都是些大词,但如果你是在这个社会中成长起来的,它们就不是什么大 词。
They sound like big words, but they are not when you grow up in such a society.
第一,很多人倾向于使用一种比较难的水平来书写,用大词和复杂的结构,惟恐读信的人会觉得他水平不高。
First, many people are inclined to write at too difficult a level, using big words and complicated structures for fear that others say they lack intelligence and literary talent.
只有到了现在,我才理解:从我的头几篇文章中爱波伦丝太太看出了我写作的毛病,诸如爱用大词,夸张华丽,不注意结构等。
Only now do I understand. After my first few papers, Mrs. Abrams knew I had a problem with exaggeration, flamboyant descriptions, and a lack of organization in my papers.
新的烹饪风格(或许大词小用)从中脱颖而出,这多亏了像肉桂卷和熊猫快餐之类的连锁店,他们离开购物中心根本无法生存。
New cuisines (the term is perhaps too grand) emerged in them, thanks to chains like Cinnabon and Panda Express, which did not exist outside malls.
成功良方:从现在起,停止对词汇量的追求!停止对“大词”的崇拜!重视无所不在的万能动词的学习!挖掘你自身宝藏丰富的金矿!
Successful Tip: From now on, stop meaningless pursuit for large vocabulary! Stop worshiping "big words"! Focus on the powerful universal verbs! Discover the gold mine already in you!
帕斯科夫说,如果银行继续提供与其竞争者无异的服务,那么所有的哗众取宠的大词和在词汇上下功夫的市场营销活动均不能创出品牌的区分度。
Passikoff says all the buzzwords and marketing campaigns in the world won’t create brand differentiation if banks continue to offer the same services as their competitors.
然而,当“商业”一词被理解为“大企业”时,我们就能理解亨利·福特这句话的负面含义。
The negative side of Henry Ford's statement, however, can be seen when the word business is taken to mean big business.
“大企业”一词指的是最大的公司,它被视为劳工的对立面。
The term big business——referring to the biggest companies, is seen in opposition to labor.
如今,即使想要知道一大块冰如何移动——或换个词讲,漂浮——是非常困难的,但众所周知冰川漂浮是由于重力。
Now, even though it may be difficult to understand how a huge mass of ice can move—or flow, it's another word for it—it's really no secret that glaciers flow because of gravity.
在国家大草坪举行抗议的人们还立了一块牌子,上面的“梦想”字眼指向马丁·路德。金,而“恶梦”的词则指向格伦·贝克。
Protesters on the National Mall also put up a sign with the word "dream", pointing to Martin Luther King Jr., and the word "nightmare", pointing to Glenn Beck.
他能够让读者更加了解这些谈判的细节,而且不用一大堆难以理解的缩略词来充斥他们的大脑,毫无疑问,这点相当成功。
But he is also an able guide to the details of such negotiations.That he is able to do this without inundating readers with a flood of incomprehensible acronyms is no mean feat.
除非你在写些非常后现代的东西- - -自我意识,自我反思以及“煽动性”- - -留心尽可能地使用平凡熟悉的词语来代替多音节的“大”词。
Unless you are writing something very post-modernist - self-conscious, self-reflexive and "provocative" - be alert for possibilities of using plain familiar words in place of polysyllabic "big" words.
“石油峰值”这个词最近已经造成了相当大的震动,对于每桶石油达到100美元左右的价格已不再感到惊讶。
The phrase "peak oil" is one that has been tossed around quite a bit lately, which comes at no surprise considering oil is hovering around $100 a barrel.
天慢慢暗下来,大上海商业广告的霓虹灯亮起来了,一句句豪言壮语般的广告词在我眼前掠过。
It grew dark, neon lights with commercial ads in Great Shanghai went shining, slogans in the ads were passing by before my eyes.
在网球中很难找到比“紧张”更贴切更重要的词来表达这种感受,周一晚上大威那自豪的一幕应该令人感到满足,这也许是对未来的预演。
There's no finer or more important word in tennis than "intense, " and it was satisfying to see Williams show sand at the Garden on Monday night. It might also be a preview of the year to come.
怀旧是大的娱乐公司对于在数码时代控制自己发行内容保护的最好的形容词。
Nostalgic is the best adjective I’ve heard to describe how most large entertainment companies think about controlling their content in a digital era.
一大堆第三等级的思考者,众口一词,籍着自己的偏见温暖双手,他们是不会感激你指出他们信仰中的矛盾的。
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all Shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs.
“标杆管理”这个词听起来像是那种只会在大商务会议室内使用的术语,但它对于任何规模的非盈利组织来说都是一项有益的实践。
Benchmarking may sound like a term from the big-business board room, but it's a useful practice for nonprofits of any size.
规则在很大程度上依旧无效(事实上,金融产业已经使“监管”一词妖魔化)大银行由于规模太大而不能破产,低利率贯穿整个收益曲线。
Regulation remains largely ineffective (in fact, the industry has managed to demonize the word), the big Banks are too important to fail, and interest rates are low across the yield curve.
当你从原子那么大再想到夸克,放下元素周期表跟发明了“夸克”这个词的詹姆斯乔伊斯一起玩儿。
When you go below atomic size and get down to quarks, you drop off the periodic table and start playing with James Joyce who coined the word "quark."
正如同一个刚刚经历过脑部手术的朋友抱怨道:“我获得了一大堆鼓励词,例如:你很快就要好了。”
As one friend who recently had brain surgery complained: "I got a lot of 'chin ups,' 'you're going to get better."'
对一个大却合理的测试集以及约1000个检索词,函数的处理事件长达约30秒。
Using a modestly large test corpus and about 1, 000 search terms, the function was taking about 30 seconds to run.
“所以当我回到屋里的时候,这幅画着大苹果的画就支在桌上,苹果上面横刻着两个词 ‘aurevoir'(法语的 “再见”)。
So when I went back in the house, there, propped on the table, was this Magritte of a giant apple, with the words “au revoir” written across it.
“十一毫秒的延迟很短暂,但这意味着,如果一个患自闭症谱系障碍的孩子在听到‘大象’这个词时刚听到‘大’字,其他孩子已经听到‘象’了。”他说。
"An 11-millisecond delay is brief, but it means, for instance, that a child with ASD, on hearing the word 'elephant' is still processing the 'el' sound while other children have moved on," he said.
页面:这里列了一大串网站,由雅虎(付费)提供。这就相当于你用那个“不存在的网址”作为关键词完成了一次搜索。
screen: a list of sites, provided for (and paid for) by Yahoo, that behave as though you've done a search for that term.
夏威夷以浪大著称,这儿的大浪可乐坏了冲浪手,可是对于那些不知“underthe barrel”(糗大了,我也不知道这词啥意思,求指教)意思的人,沙滩意味着什么呢?
Hawaii is famous for big waves, which makes the surfers happy, but what about a beach for those who have no idea what ‘under the barrel’ means?
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