Why it might not work: If you and your date can’t find much to talk about, and those painfully awkward silences are getting longer, there’s nothing to do but watch the barista wipe down the tables.

如果你跟你的约会对象没什么可聊，尴尬沉默的时间越来越长，你们只能看着咖啡馆的员工擦桌子，那么这里也许就不适合你们了。

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On your projects, you may find team members who are comfortable with using non-Rational tools to do their work and who may not want to switch from using these tools.

在我们的项目中，您可能发现能够很好使用非rational工具来完成他们工作的团队成员并不想转变他们使用这种工具的方式。

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Remember, however, that your partner may find it more difficult to express his or her feelings to you, so do not assume that everything is clear and out in the open, just because that is how you work.

然而需要提醒你的是，你的另一半可能会相对你而言更难于表达自己的感受，所以不要以为任何问题都是清晰而公开的，因为这只是你单方面能做到这一点。

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This is actually very representative of when you do research in the laboratory, you will find often things do not work quite exactly as they worked 20 minutes ago when you just checked it in your office, for example.

在实验室做研究时,这个实际上是非常具有代表性的，举个例子,当时只是在办公室核查它时,你经常会发现事物无法,像它们20分钟之前那样精确的工作。

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