The title of this discussion is taken from a question put by the John Templeton Foundation to leading scientists, scholars, and public figures.
本文的题目取自约翰•坦普顿基金会向一些领头的科学家、学者和公众人物提的一个问题。
If the question had been put to me, I would have first discussed whether corrupt and dishonest businessmen make greater profits than honest and morally admirable businessmen.
如果我被问到这个问题的话，我首先会讨论一下黑心、不诚实的生意人是不是比诚实、道德上获得尊重的生意人有更多的获利。
He watched each step of the processing carefully, saying nothing, making notes, and occasionally asking Wang to put a question to a manager or worker.
福琛仔细观察着工人们的每个步骤，一言不发的作着笔记，偶尔派王姓仆人去问经理和工人们一些问题。
According to experiments, people who consciously struggle with a difficult question are more likely to get the wrong answer, compared to those who put it on the mental backburner.
试验中，那些总是有意识地去解决某个难题的人与那些将问题在头脑里暂时搁置一边的人相比更可能给出错误答案。
Presumably you would put “tea downtown Seattle” and it brings up both rich search results and propagates the question, suitably altered for human consumption, to your network of friends.
假如你输入“西雅图茶”，会出现大量的搜索结果并且这些问题会让你的朋友知道，一定程度地改变了消费观。
When this question was put to a large sample of physicians, 72 percent chose option a, the safe-and-sure strategy, and only 28 percent chose program B, the risky strategy.
当把这个问题交给大样本数的医生时，72%的医生遵循安全和确定的战略选择了方案A。只有28%的医生选择冒险的策略方案B。
The natural question, at this point, is to say how can failure be a positive? Let me put this positive turning of baggage another way.
关于这一点，很自然地就会由这样一个问题：失败怎么会有积极的一面呢？
On April 30th, after weeks of speculation and bucketloads of platitudes from the company about corporate governance, it finally tried to put the succession question to bed.
继几个星期的对于公司企业治理的猜测和陈词滥调之后，公司终于于4月30日处理了高层接任问题。
If somebody answers a question in a way that you think didn't put your best foot forward find a constructive way of adding to the point rather than disagreeing with your team member.
如果你团队中的人用了你认为不合适的方式去回答了VC的问题，那么试着用“补充”的方式去继续与VC交流，而不要去直接反驳团队成员的回答。
He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him as though he had just heard it.
他回答她先头的问题，好象他还听见她在问似的。
Between 528 and 2, 493 people interviewed in each country, either by phone or face-to-face (the question was put to people who said they knew something about climate change).
每个国家参与调查的人数在528人到2493人之间。 调查数据通过电话或面谈取得（调查对象仅限声称对气候变化问题有一定了解的人士）。
We also put the question of how significant the study is to Barry Popkin at the University of North Carolina.
我们还向北卡罗莱纳大学的巴里·波普金询问，到底这项研究有什么重要意义。
The producers refused to even talk about residuals. They put forth a simple and compelling question: Why should any employee be paid more than once for the same job?
制作方拒绝任何有关于支付剩余报酬的条款，他们抛出了一个简单却引人注目的问题：为什么雇主要为一次工作付两次钱？
It decomposes the question put to it into discrete bits of data and then searches its vast data base for statistically frequent combinations of the bits it is working with.
它将问题分解开来，转变成离散的数据位，然后在它庞大的数据库中搜索与所处理的数据位在统计上频率最高的重合。
Another question is how to schedule a PUT and a GET on the same buffer without causing conflicts.
另一个问题是如何在同一缓冲区上调度PUT和GET而不造成冲突。
But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question? And think about how good or bad for me? Is it that there's variability in death?
但是为了重点讨论，死亡的坏处，我要撇开道德问题不谈，转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏，如果死亡有可变性的话？
He said she had no opportunity to even ask a question because he simply asked her how she had got the number, told her never to call it again and put the phone down.
他说他甚至没有给她机会提问，因为他仅仅是问她如何得到这个号码的，并且告诉他不要再打过来，然后就挂断了。
The parties to the negotiation decided to put aside the question of whether, and how, to make the deal legally binding pending the passage of America's emissions-reducing legislation.
谈判中的当事人决定暂时不考虑是否和如何使讨论具有法律约束的问题，直到美国减排立法通过。
Since the children were too old for the baby-staring trick, but unable to answer the question: "How many?", researchers laid out counters, then put them away and asked the children to "do as I did".
由于这些儿童的年龄已经不适合对婴儿使用的注视点研究方法，但他们却不能回答“某物有多少”的问题，研究者们摆出一些计数器，把它们放在一边后研究者要求这些儿童跟着他们做。
Even though it will be put to rather mundane USES, the technology in question has an exotic name: quantum-dot lighting.
尽管这种技术将被使用于大众生活，但它却有个怪异的名称——量子点照明技术。
Military force is out of the question because of the danger to the South. The United States' new missile-defence system is, to put it charitably, unproven.
考虑到韩国的安危，军事打击是行不通的，而美国新型的导弹防御系统，说得好听点，还未验证其有效性。
These results might put the source of success for singing therapies into question. But further studies are needed before therapists decide to change their tune.
这些结果可能会使音乐疗法的一些成果来源受到质疑。但是在音乐疗法者改变他们的态度之前需要有更深入的研究来提供证明。
Often the technology in question is custom application logic that you wrote yourself to extract data from an XML document and put it into a column on a table in a relational database.
这种技术通常需要自己编写自定义的应用程序逻辑从XML文档中提取数据，然后放到关系数据库的表列中。
If you consider the information in question to be part of the essential material that is being expressed or communicated in the XML, put it in an element.
如果认为要处理的信息属于用XML表示或传达的基本资料，就将其放在元素中。
“If you want to ask a question of a bumblebee, you have to put yourself in the perspective of bumblebees, ” Lotto said.
“如果想要问一个熊蜂的问题，就必须从熊蜂的角度着想，”洛托说。
I'm going to put aside for the moment the question of sign languages and how they work.
我想暂时把手语，及其如何作用的问题先放到一边？
At the same time, ERP companies are increasing their ability to handle and maintain engineering and product design data, which will put under a big question mark the potential implementation of PLM.
同样的，ERP公司也将提高其管理和维护工程及产品设计数据的能力，而这将给PLM实施的前景打上大大的问号。
So we just do want to put a little question mark in the margin and then say, Well, fine. Granted this is all representation, where is the text where could the text be that would be natural?
所以我们在页边空白处打一个问号，说道：，好吧，这些都是表现，哪里有文本呢？，哪里有自然的文本呢？
So we just do want to put a little question mark in the margin and then say, Well, fine. Granted this is all representation, where is the text where could the text be that would be natural?
所以我们在页边空白处打一个问号，说道：，好吧，这些都是表现，哪里有文本呢？，哪里有自然的文本呢？
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