The present situation of the oceans is bad and worrying and Slat wanted to do something to change it.

目前，海洋状况十分糟糕，令人担忧，斯莱特想付诸行动来改变现状。

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One educator named Dori Roberts decided to do something to change this system.

教育家多里·罗伯茨决定付出行动，改变这个系统。

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Why don't you do something to change the situation?

你为什么不做点什么改变局面呢？

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A resolution is a promise to change or do something different in the coming year.

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Now to make that happen, it's not adiabatic, right. If I wanted to do that, I'd need a heating element or something to cool, so I could make that temperature change happen, right.

要实现这点，它就不会是绝热的，对吧，如果我想做到这点,我需要一个加热元件或什么制冷的东西,这样我才能让温度变化。

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They were pretty slow off the mark to do something about this, and it was after lawsuits were filed that they actually made the change.

他们先慢腾腾的应付着,直到诉讼结束时才真正做出改变

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Romney then made the questionable assertion that we must do something to change this.

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Not that targets or time tables are not important, but that is not enough and that you have to do something to change technology.

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So I was surprised to see that people were pessimistic about it because pessimism implies that people may or may not want to do something to change their outlook.

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