While printing enormously increased access to books by making cheap, high-volume production possible, it also reduced choice.
印刷使得低成本大量制造书籍成为了可能，由此极大提高了人们获取书籍的机会，但也减少了人们的选择。
It was a good choice: by the time I was twenty-five, I'd already finished two novels and had an agent.
这是个不错的选择：在我25岁的时候，我就已经写完了两部小说，并且有了一个经纪人。
I wouldn't go there by choice.
让我选择，我不会去那里。
These latest findings support the thesis that sexuality is determined by nature rather than choice.
这些最新发现证实了性取向取决于自然而不是选择这一论点。
The choice of decor was inspired by a trip to India.
选用这种装饰格调是从一次印度之行中得到的启发。
No one disputes the costs in quality of life and depleted health budgets of an obese population, but the quest for solutions gets diverted by ideological arguments around responsibility and choice.
没有人会质疑肥胖人群在生活质量上付出的成本和医疗预算的损耗，但寻求解决方案的注意力被围绕责任和选择的意识形态争论所转移了。
Firth's win was an extremely popular choice by the jury, whose president this year was the Oscar-winning director Ang Lee.
费斯的获胜是评委团最热门的选择，而评审团今年的主席是本届获得奥斯卡奖的导演李安。
Recognising obesity as a chronic disease with severe complications rather than a lifestyle choice "should help reduce the stigma and discrimination experienced by many people with obesity," he adds.
认识到肥胖是一种伴有严重并发症的慢性疾病，而不是一种生活方式的选择，“应该有助于减少许多肥胖人士所经历的耻辱和歧视。”他补充道。
In the past, choice of soul mate was limited by geography, social convention and family tradition.
以前，地理位置、社会习俗和家庭传统限制了人们对灵魂伴侣的选择。
Cognitive psychologists assert that our behavior is influenced by our values, by the ways in which we interpret our situations and by choice.
认知心理学家们断言，我们的行为受我们的价值观、我们了解自己处境的方式和我们的选择的影响。
In fact, nobody made me do it, so I had to make a choice by myself.
事实上，没人逼我这样做，所以我必须自己做选择。
For British people, going to the pub was their first choice, followed by visiting the cinema.
对英国人来说，去酒吧是他们的第一选择，其次是去电影院。
We are thoughtful and noble individuals working together in peace and by choice for a common goal.
而是经过深思熟虑进行崇高的个人工作为和平而选择的共同的目标。
There are still plenty of latch-key kids whose parents give them a lot ofindependence, by choice or by necessity.
由于选择或者是必要性的，仍然有很多自带钥匙的孩子，他们的父母给予他们很多自由。
They are doing so either by choice, because retirement savings have been devastated and they fear losing their jobs, or by necessity, because it has become so difficult to borrow.
消费者如此做，不是出于选择——因为退休储蓄已被破坏而且他们担心失业，就是出于必需——因为借钱已经很困难。
And rich EU members that stayed out by choice, Sweden and Denmark, are thinking again.
而欧盟富国如瑞典和丹麦曾选择不使用欧元，而现在又开始重新考虑。
Zimbabweans are not in South Africa by choice; many never dreamed of coming to South Africa, "says Mr." Zunga.
“津巴布韦人前往南非实际别无选择，他们中的许多从未渴望来到此地”，祖加先生表示。
Some do so by choice, but others fear they will not get ahead in more chauvinist parts of a business.
有些人自愿选择从事这些工作，但剩下的人是害怕从事主营业务，害怕沙文主义兴盛，无法得到提拔。
Some never achieve all five milestones, including those who are single or childless by choice, or unable to marry even if they wanted to because they’re gay.
有些人甚至连一个阶段也未完成，例如选择单身或丁克，或者因为是同性恋，想结婚却无法如愿。
NVAR reckons that as many as a quarter of those who suffer foreclosure do so by choice, to escape such a trap.
据NVAR估计，多达四分之一的人为了躲避这样的陷阱自己选择放弃赎回权。
As the private sector has grown, these public underwriters have found new roles for themselves, either by choice or necessity.
随着这些私人公司的成长壮大，大的公立保险机构为他们自己找到了新的角色，这既是大势所趋也是他们的明智选择。
Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice.
明智的愚蠢(productive stupidity)意味着有选择的无知。
The implementation, by choice or by accident, will inevitably deviate from the design, resulting in some degree of architectural degradation.
经选择的或者不经意的实现将不可避免地背离设计，导致某种程度的架构降级（architectural degradation）。
The groups have historically been under-represented, sometimes by choice but often because of prejudice.
土著人群体在历史上，参政代表人数一直都很低，这样的局面有时是出于人的选择，但更多时候却是由对土著人的歧视造成的。
The Pew researchers speculate that this is because more women than men are unemployed by choice, although the study didn't attempt to tease apart that difference.
佩尤的研究人员推测，那是因为比起男性，更多的女性选择赋闲在家，尽管该研究并不想对这种差别进行嘲讽。
So the ones who stay do so by choice and it's up to us simply to persuade them or give them a good offer.
所以，留下来的人出于自愿这样做，并且仅仅是取决于我们劝解他们，又或是为他们开出更好的价钱。
For an article for the Good men Project, Cox decided to look into why other men remain childless by choice.
为了给好男人好事杂志写一篇文章，考克斯决定调查了解一下为什么其他男人选择保持不育。
For an article for the Good men Project, Cox decided to look into why other men remain childless by choice.
为了给好男人好事杂志写一篇文章，考克斯决定调查了解一下为什么其他男人选择保持不育。
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