女性之所以这么选择，是因为他们的价值取向是柔性的。

Women make these choices because they tend to value flexibility.

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支气管热传导治疗采用一个柔性的支气管镜，通过病人的鼻子或嘴巴进入到肺部。

The bronchial thermoplasty treatment is performed using a flexible bronchoscope that is introduced through a patient's nose or mouth, and into their lungs.

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尽管很多出租车司机和雇员有柔性的工作日程和不受监督，但是，这个工作处于社会底部。

Although many taxi drivers and chauffeurs have extremely flexible schedules and generally work unsupervised, the job still ranks near the bottom.

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Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

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