Many say that, given a choice, they would opt for a holiday to put the pep back in their lives.

很多人说，要是能选择，他们宁愿选择休假来恢复活力。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

That dog will give you a nasty bite, given half a chance.

只要一有机会，那条狗就会狠咬你一口。

《牛津词典》

With time, they start to understand that a given number represents a quantity greater by one than the number coming before it.

随着时间的推移，他们开始明白，一个给定的数表示一个比它前面的数大1的数量。

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That's going to presumably be given--mathematically if we gave it a number, we'd slap a zero on that.

如果用数学解释,给它一个数字，给它一个零。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think the genius of this parable hinges on the fact that the servant who was only given one talent seems to be acting so perfectly reasonably - with a laudable form of caution and hesitation, you could actually say.

我认为这则寓言的特别之处在于,那个只拿到一个金币的仆人,的行为是很合理的,-可以说是令人称赞的小心和犹豫。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It turns out that the group that had--were paid a dollar rated the task as much more fun than the group given twenty dollars.

结果发现，拿一美元的那组对这个任务的评价,要比拿20美元的那组高得多。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Before then a fund could be penalized for having too large a percentage of its profits from "short-term" gains--a painful rule given that a gain on a short sale is always treated as short-term, however long the position is held.

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If the market is up 10%, he calculates, then hedge fund operators would need a 17% return to beat that--given a 20% carry, a 2% annual fee and taxes.

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That's a far-out goal, given that Fate Therapeutics hasn't even selected a chief executive.

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