My father, who was trained in engineering at M. I. T. in the slide-rule era, often lamented the way the pocket calculator, for all its convenience, diminished my generation's math skills.

我的父亲，在幻灯片统治时代，他在麻省理工学院接受工程教育，经常感叹由于袖珍计算器带来的便利性，削弱了我这一代人的数学能力。

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Instead of letting your focus slide into escapism or the easy or lazy way out all the time.

而不是将你的注意力总是放到空想或简单或懒惰的事情上。

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All this stands in the way of a full-blooded recovery. But a slide into a second recession would require firms to cut back again on stocks, capital spending and jobs.

但陷入二度衰退后，公司就要被迫再次削减库存、资金支出和工作岗位。

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That optimism proved astute with the yield on the 10-year backing off from a slide to 2.33% all the way up to 2.53% as employers added 117, 000 positions last month.

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