If the past is prologue, then it ought to be possible to draw some modest conclusions about the future from the wealth of data about America's present.
如果过去是一个序幕，那么应该有可能从有关美国现状的大量数据中得出一些关于未来的适度的结论。
In regard to your questions about my future career choices, I am determined to be an interpreter.
关于你对我未来的职业选择的疑问，我下定决心要做一名口译员。
You will have to be selective about which information to include in the report.
究竟要把哪些资料收入报告，你得仔细斟酌。
The strength of the workforce is about to be doubled from 3 000 to 6 000.
职工人数将翻一番，由3 000人增加为6 000人。
But how about a little reverse psychology? Playing hard-to-get is known to be more effective than begging.
但是用点逆反心理怎么样？大家都知道玩欲擒故纵要比请求更加管用。
It is your job to correct them gracefully and not to be snippy about it.
你的任务是得体地纠正他们，而不是急躁地呵斥。
For months he had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway.
几个月以来他一直处在辞职的压力下，他无论如何都是要靠边站了。
The government appears to be in a quandary about what to do with so many people.
该政府对如何安置这么多人显得不知所措。
It would be better for him to talk to his parents about his problems.
他把自己的问题同父母谈谈会比较好。
It was a relief to be able to talk to someone about it.
能和别人谈谈这件事，感到舒心多了。
There is no reason to be pessimistic about the future, because we are young enough to do everything.
没有理由对未来悲观，因为我们还年轻，我们能做任何事情。
Be sure to add to it whenever you hear about a good book.
当你听到一本好书时，一定要把它加进去。
I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.
和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了，就像我写的东西必须是事实，不能虚构，但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象，去创作。
I'm supposed to be at a meeting from 3:00 to 6:00, but how about leaving it with my secretary?
我3点到6点应该在开会，但把它交给我的秘书怎么样？
It was to tell you not to be uneasy about us, because we hadn't got drownded.
我是来告诉你不要为我们担心，因为我们并没有淹死。
You yourself may be asked to do a presentation at college or work to inform the others about an area of vital importance.
你自己在大学或工作中可能会被要求做一个报告，告诉别人一个至关重要的领域。
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten.
大部分我所必须了解的那些关于如何生存、怎样规划以及如何做人的道理，它们都是从幼儿园那里学会的。
Your first robot should be about learning how to build a robot, not how to make a neat robot.
你的第一个机器人，目的应该是学习怎么制作一个机器人，而不是制作一个灵巧的机器人。
Hacking used to be about geeky college kids tapping away in their bedrooms to annoy their elders.
黑客攻击过去通常指怪异的大学生在卧室里敲着键盘使用电脑来骚扰他们的长辈。
The most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn't have to be a genius to set its wheels in motion.
然而，语言最非凡之处在于，一个人不必成为天才也能驾驭语言。
What they don't need to do—what would be a distraction—is to have to think about where their fingers are, or how to control the ball while running.
他们不需要做的——可能会分散注意力的——是必须考虑他们的手指在哪里，或者在奔跑时如何控制球。
If we want an economy that allows everyone to be economically secure, we need to start thinking about how we can rightfully address automation.
如果我们想要一个能让每个人都获得经济安全的经济体制，我们就需要开始考虑如何正确处理自动化问题。
There is nothing new about TV and fashion magazines giving girls unhealthy ideas about how thin they need to be in order to be considered beautiful.
电视和时尚杂志给女孩们不健康的想法，关于她们需要多瘦才能被认为是漂亮的，这已经不是什么新鲜事了。
In order not to be heard, she pointed her finger upwards to signal that someone was moving about upstairs.
为了不让别人听见，她向上伸出手指示意有人在楼上走动。
This unfortunately means that there is not much that can be done about one-off noise, like someone trying to learn to play a trumpet.
可惜，这意味着对于一次性的噪音没有什么办法，比如有人尝试学习吹小号产生的噪音。
I don't know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.
我不知道如何完善，但他们想要至少能够得体地交流。
I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little-known female scientists.
我认为，她为收录鲜为人知的女科学家的轶事所付出的努力值得赞扬。
It would be better for you to talk to your parents about your problems.
你把自己的问题跟父母谈一谈会比较好。
Whether you like a piece or not is important, but you should be able to explain why you like a particular piece and be able to talk about its historical and musical context.
你是否喜欢一部作品很重要，但是你应该能够解释你为什么喜欢某部作品，并且能够谈论它的历史和音乐背景。
The computer experts have to learn not to tell people about computers, but have to be able to explain the answers to the questions that people really want to know.
计算机专家必须学会不告诉人们有关计算机的知识，而且要能够解释人们真正想知道的问题的答案。
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