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Fahmy was at once transparent and subtle, convivial and abrasive, suave and prickly.
法赫米这个人既开朗又阴沉,善于交际而又喜欢磨人,说话和蔼而又带刺。
But even the most convivial bar must close eventually, and when the time came, I staggered out into the street, and with many warm farewells to my companions, turned down an empty street that led to my train station.
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The speaker was clearly playing to the gallery when he uttered so many doubtful jokes.
演说者讲了这么多似是而非的笑话, 显然是迎合低级趣味。
A politician may be tempted to play to the gallery.
政客可能很想博得群众的赏识。
The trial featured a gallery of famous and flamboyant witnesses.
这次审判的特色是有一批声名显赫的证人
The gallery is a treasure trove of medieval art.
这个画廊是中世纪艺术的宝库。
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Below, the captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking rapidly
下面,船长惊恐的地发现“泰坦尼克号 号正在急速下沉
No matter how much we like honey,or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess,we have a horror of being stung. x
不管我们多爱吃蜂蜜,或读过多少关于蜜蜂具有神秘的识别方向的灵感的书,我们也无法抑制对它们的反感。
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The enemy fired away with wild abandon,but luckily with little accuracy John was able to escape.
敌人疯狂地向远处扫射,但是幸运的是,枪法的不准使约翰得以逃身。
Jenny and Tony are abandoning themselves to the sweet love.
詹尼和托尼正沉浸在甜蜜的爱情之中。
Those who abandon themselves to despair can not succeed.
那些自暴自弃的人无法成功。
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I'm not attachment of my parents, I am what I am!
我不是父母人附属物,我就是我
Days and days past, he grow sentimental attachment to the poor girl.
一天天过去了,他渐渐对那个可怜的女孩产生了爱慕之情。
He has a strong/great attachment to his family
他对家庭有很强的依赖性
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By bringing aboard a number of blacks as department heads, lawyers, and accountants, the Mayor has also broadened the racial mix in top city jobs
“市长让大量黑人担任部门主管、律师及会计师,这样就扩大了城市高层工作的种族融合”
There were more than 1,500 people aboard the Titanic at that time.
当时泰坦尼克号上有1,500多名乘客。
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It's an all inclusive price; there is nothing extra to pay.
这是一个包罗一切的价格, 不需再额外付款了。
This measure is more effective and inclusive than top-down regulation.
这个措施比自上而下的规定更加有效和具有包容性。
Culture is an abstract and sometimes all-inclusive term.
文化是抽象的,有时是一个包括一切的术语。
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Nobody would be happy with their life absolutely.
每人会对他们的生活100%满意。
Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future,boy?
你难道一点也不关心你自己的前途,孩子?
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I anticipate deriving much instruction from the lecture.
我期望从这演讲中获得很多教益。
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She has an insatiable hunger for knowledge.
Geffen has a hunger for success that seems bottomless.
But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for/after adventure.
Nothing seemed to satisfy their hunger for truth.
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Death comes to all of us in the end. There's no way of getting out of it. There may not be much choice in how it happens, but there are ways to avoid the most embarrassing and unnecessary deaths that plague modern civilization. Death from stupidity is an avoidable demise. A little common sense and a few good choices can ensure whatever the final performance entails, it will not end up in a late night comedy sketch or on the front of the local newspaper.
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Does Technology Makes Us Smarter or Dumber?
Ever since journalist Nicholas Carr posed a provocative question — “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” — in a widely-read 2008 Atlantic magazine article, we’ve been arguing about whether the new generation of digital devices is leading us to become smarter, or stupider, than we were before. Now psychologists and cognitive scientists are beginning to deliver their verdicts.
Calculators.
Cognitive scientists long ago identified the “generation effect” — the fact that we understand and remember answers that we generate ourselves better than those that are provided us (by a calculator, for instance).
Auto-complete.
Frequent users of smartphones quickly get used to the “auto-complete” function of their devices—the way they need only type a few letters and the phone fills in the rest. Maybe too used to it, in fact. This handy function seems to make adolescent users faster, but less accurate, when responding to a battery of cognitive tests, according to research published in 2009 in the journal Bioelectromagnetics.
Search engines.
The ready availability of search engines is changing the way we use our memories, reported psychologist Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University in a study published in Science last year. When people expect to have future access to information, Sparrow wrote, “they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it.” It’s good to know where to find the information you need—but decades of cognitive science research shows that skills like critical thinking and problem-solving can be developed only in the context of factual knowledge. In other words, you’ve got to have knowledge stored in your head, not just in your computer.
Websites.
Way back in 2001, reading specialists Anne Cunningham and Keith Stanovich reported in the Journal of Direct Instruction that scores on a test of general knowledge were highest among people who read newspapers, magazines and books, and lowest among those who watched a lot of TV. Watching television, they noted, is “negatively associated with knowledge acquisition” — except when the TV watching involved public television, news, or documentary programs. Cunningham and Stanovich didn’t look at Internet use, but the same information divide exists online: high-quality, accurate information, and, well, fluff.
So does technology make us stupid, or smart? The answer is “both,” and the choice is up to us.
from By Annie Murphy PaulNov. 29, 2012 |
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