The company gave me dunning letters and calls.
这家公司给我来了许多讨债信和催债电话。
"This is really encouraging," Dunning says.
邓宁表示，“这真是令人鼓舞。”
The debt collector kept dunning her for the rent.
收账人一直在催逼她缴租金。
Some clubs are always dunning their members for contribution.
某些俱乐部老是向其成员催缴捐款。
'Harrington,' Dunning said, 'I'm afraid we have sent a man to his death.'
“哈林顿，”邓宁说，“恐怕我们把一个人送上死路了。”
“I hit it, and it didn’t move,” Ms. Dunning, who turned 101 last month, said.
“我对它又踢又打，它就是不动窝儿。”上个月已满101岁的邓宁女士回忆道。
All these years Ms. Dunning has kept her Packard's original key with its elaborate crest.
这些年来，邓宁女士一直用帕卡德那把有着精致徽章的原配钥匙。
“And that’s how he taught me about horsepower, ” Ms. Dunning added. “And it stuck with me.”
“父亲就是这么教我‘马力’这个词的，”邓宁女士补充说，“而这‘马力’把我难住了。”
In the 1940s she and her mother donated property to establish what is now the Dunning-Hough Library.
20世纪40年代，她和母亲捐资建立了现在的邓宁-霍夫图书馆。
Steve Dunning, headteacher of Emberton School, told the BBC the boy's death had come as a great shock.
斯蒂夫·邓宁，恩波顿学校的校长告诉BBC ，男孩的死让人们非常震惊。
'I can grow a beard,' said Dunning, 'so that he won't recognize me. But who knows when the end will come?'
“我可以蓄胡须，”邓宁说，“这样他就不会认出我来了，可谁知道我的末日什么时候来临呢？”
Ms. Dunning still changes the oil herself, but mostly relies on a small maintenance team that includes a 90-year-old friend.
邓宁女士依旧自己给车换机油，不过更多的事就得依靠一个小型保养团队来做了，保养团队成员包括一位90岁的老朋友。
"The Linpack benchmark is one of those interesting phenomena -- almost anyone who knows about it will deride its utility," says Dunning.
“Linpack基准测试是很有趣的现象之一——几乎所有人都知道它和实用性根本不沾边，”邓宁说。
Ms. Dunning cannot recall how much she paid for the Packard, and said it was unclear how many miles were on its in-line 8-cylinder engine.
邓宁女士记不起买这辆帕卡德车花了多少钱，也不清楚这辆直列8缸发动机的车跑了多少里程。
So Dunning explained. 'I don't really mind, 'he continued, 'but I believe that he's not a very nice person and it could be difficult if we met. '
于是邓宁解释了一番，“我倒不介意，”他接着说，“可我觉得他不是个和善的人，如果我们见面的话会很不愉快的。”
'oh! I'm so glad you asked,' said Dunning. 'I feel I really must talk to someone about it. Do you know anything about a man named John Harrington?'
“噢！很高兴你问起，”邓宁说，“我觉得是得跟人谈谈这事了。你知道一个叫约翰·哈林顿的人的情况吗？”
This is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect: people who don't know much tend not to recognize their ignorance, and so fail to seek better information.
这种现象被称为达克效应(Dunning - Kruger effect)：一知半解的人们比较不容易意识到自己的无知，所以不去寻求更好的信息。
After that, Ms. Dunning, an only child, drove everything on the farm that was drivable, she said, including a Maxwell truck and eventually, tractors.
那之后，不过是个孩子的邓宁女士，把农场上能驾驶的东西都驾驶了个遍，她说，她当时开过的车包括Maxwell大卡车，最后，连拖拉机她也开了。
Alongside the Dunning-Kruger effect, these effects would imply that successful collaboration has some problems to overcome before we can reap the benefits.
加上前文所讲的达克效应，我们需要意识到若想合作成功收取利润，先得把这些问题解决了。
Since it was restored, the Packard has mostly been a show car, although Ms. Dunning used to drive it more often than the three or four times a year that she takes it out now.
自修复后，这辆帕卡德基本就成了展示车，尽管邓宁女士过去可比现在一年就开出来三四次要用得多些。
It was converted into a residential recording studio in 2002 by owners Paddy and Claire Dunning, and has been used by everyone from REM to Doves, Muse to Ms Dynamite, Snow Patrol to Shirley Bassey.
在2002年房主帕迪和克莱尔·邓恩斯把它改造成了一个住宅录音室,REM乐队、鸽子乐团、缪斯乐队、戴娜迈特女士、雪警乐团、舍丽·芭西都曾经在这里录过音。
It was converted into a residential recording studio in 2002 by owners Paddy and Claire Dunning, and has been used by everyone from REM to Doves, Muse to Ms Dynamite, Snow Patrol to Shirley Bassey.
在2002年房主帕迪和克莱尔·邓恩斯把它改造成了一个住宅录音室,REM乐队、鸽子乐团、缪斯乐队、戴娜迈特女士、雪警乐团、舍丽·芭西都曾经在这里录过音。
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