And that applies to much more than just writing: take the time to pare whatever you do down to the essentials, and you'll be left with something so much more amazing.
这个(简化的)原则同样适用于写作以外的事情：我们需要花费一些时间对你做的事情进行简化然后你会发现简化后剩下的精华部分会给你一种非常美妙的感觉。
Buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour: the rosier your view of yourself, the more likely you are to hoard your money and do down other people.
购买环保商品能够为消费者提供一种道德凭据，从而纵容接下来不好的行为：你把自己看的越高尚，却越是有可能把钱藏起来而不愿意分给其他人。
Our mothers sat us down to read and paint, when all we really wanted to do was to make a mess.
我们的妈妈们让我们坐下读书、画画，而我们真正想要做的却是胡闹一阵。
By and by their pulses slowed down, and Tom whispered, "Huckleberry, what do you reckon'll come of this?"
过了一会儿，他们的脉搏平缓了下来，汤姆低声说：“哈克贝利，你想这事结果会怎么样？”
You can do a quick test to confirm this in any database by opening a view and then pressing the down arrow.
您可以在任何数据库中进行快速测试来确认这一点，方法是打开一个视图，然后按向下箭头键。
Christine uses her journal to jot down ideas and lists of things to do.
克里斯蒂娜用她的日志簿简单记下自己的想法和要做的事情清单。
I think that it comes down to the fact that people do feel very dependent on their automobiles.
我认为这主要涉及到人们的确感到非常依赖他们的汽车这样一个事实。
No matter what a woman tries to do to improve her situation, there is some barrier or attitude to keep her down.
不管女性如何试图改善自己的境遇，总有障碍或看法压制她们。
We needed to do decimals to round up and round down numbers.
我们需要把小数四舍五入成整数。
If you walk further down to the Strand, there's quite a lot of interesting things to do there.
如果你再往下走到海滨，那里有很多有趣的事情可做。
As you do this, write down the information that supports your ideas in a valuable way.
当你这样做的时候，以有价值的方式写下支持你观点的信息。
You ask them, on the other hand, to mark down their sex, they do worse because they're reminded of a negative stereotype.
另一方面，如果你让他们记下自己的性别，他们的表现会更差，因为这让他们想起了一个负面的刻板印象。
You ask them, on the other hand, to mark down their sex, they do worse because they are reminded of a negative stereotype.
另一方面，如果你让他们记下自己的性别，他们的表现会更差，因为这让他们想起了一个负面的刻板印象。
I looked down at my hands wrapped around the lemonade bottle, not sure what to do now.
我低下头，看着自己交叠在柠檬水瓶上的双手，不知道现在该做些什么。
When Asian-American women are given a test and they're asked to mark down their race, they do better than they would otherwise do.
当亚裔美国女性接受一项测试，并被要求记下自己的种族时，她们的表现比不写的时候要好。
Most Thai people do not sit down to eat a proper meal because they usually eat when they are hungry, especially kids and teenagers.
大多数泰国人不会坐下来吃一顿像样的饭，因为他们通常会在饿的时候吃，尤其是孩子和青少年。
When you grow crops and pasture your animals, one of the things you do is you cut down the forests.
当你种植农作物、喂养牲口时，你要做的其中一件事就是砍伐森林。
Over time, the costs of processing go down because as organizations learn how to do things better, they become more efficient.
随着时间的推移，处理成本会降低，因为随着组织学会如何把事情做得更好，它们会变得更有效率。
His mother convinced that he had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, and laid down some rules.
他的母亲认为他应该做一些激动人心的事情以防止他过上失败的人生，所以他的母亲制定了一些规则。
This proved that Murphy' s Law is true: If the toast can land butter side down, it will do so.
这就证明了墨菲定律是正确的：如果面包片上的黄油能朝下，它就会朝下。
How do you get these hearts to move up and down and seemingly in random patterns?
你怎样才能让这些爱心看起来是在随机的模式中上下移动呢？
If you do climb higher sooner, come back down to a lower height when you sleep.
如果你真的很快爬到了更高的地方，那就在你睡觉的时候回到较低的高度。
Alice cried with a sudden burst of tears: "I do wish they would put their heads down!"
爱丽丝突然哭了起来：“我真希望他们能低下头来！”
Always remember that your audiences do not have the luxury to rewind or slow down your speech.
请时刻记住，你的听众并不拥有这样的奢侈，把你的演讲减速或者重播。
We're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down or we do, but we hurry.
我们要么出去吃，要么打包回来吃，坐着吃也好，站着吃也行，就是得快点。
The maid stopped half-way down and asked scornfully, "What do you want?"
女仆在半路上停下来，轻蔑地问：“你想干嘛？”
Mr. Obama's supporters seem to believe that all they need to do is to huff and puff and the old order in Washington will come tumbling down.
奥巴马的支持者想当然的以为只要他们威胁恫吓一番，华盛顿的旧秩序就能土崩瓦解。
That's what we'll have to do if I can't think of anything else, but it'll really slow down the operation.
如果我想不出别的办法我们就得这么做，但这确实会减慢手术的速度。
How do satellites stay up without falling down?
卫星是如何不坠落的呢？
We're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down—or we do, but hurry.
我们在外面吃或在家里吃，站着吃或者坐着吃都可以，但是要吃快点。
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