"What's happened is that our focus on creating that quality of life first has enabled the residents to live here," Summers says.
“现有情况是，我们对创造高品质生活的关注让居民能够在这里生活。”萨默斯说。
Wherever life first flickered into being, it may have moved rapidly to occupy a wide range of environments.
无论生命在哪里闪亮登场，都会迅即占据大片环境。
And he doesn't think his work will settle an old argument among pioneers in the field: at what locale did life first take root?
而且他觉得自己所作的工作无法解决前辈们所争论的问题：生命在哪里生根？
He said a reporter had asked him whether cigarette smoking should be banned in film and TV and he was trying to argue that bad behavior needed to be regulated in real life first.
他说有一位记者曾经问过他是否应该在电影和电视节目中禁止吸烟的行为，针对这个提问，他说不良行为应该在真是生活中被首先规范化。
With major life traumas, like losing a loved one, for instance, the mind's first reaction is denial.
面对人生的重大创痛，例如失去深爱的人，心理的第一反应就是拒绝接受。
The birth of their first child marked the beginning of a new era in their married life.
第一个孩子的出世使他们的婚姻生活开始了一个新阶段。
He hit me, so I hit him back–the first time in my life I'd stood up to him.
他打了我，我就还手打了他–这是我生平第一次反抗他。
First, a climate conducive to life on Earth depends upon the extraordinarily narrow orbital parameters that define a continuously habitable zone where water can exist in a liquid state.
首先，地球上适宜生命存在的气候取决于极其狭窄的轨道参数，这些参数定义了一个持续可居住的地带，在那里水可以以液态存在。
But it's important to remember that speeches are like anything else in life—there's always a first time.
但重要的是要记住，演讲就像生活中的其他事情一样，总有第一次。
I feel more seen than I ever have, and for the first time in my life, I have a clear-eyed view of myself that is authentic, compassionate and accepting.
我觉得我比以往任何时刻都更受关注，这是我人生中第一次对自己有了清晰的认识，知道自己是真实的、富有同情心的、乐于接受的。
"When they see that carrier back out on the street, that's the first sign to them that life is starting to return to normal," Swigart says.
斯威加特说：“当他们看到这邮递员重返街头时，这是生活开始恢复正常的第一个信号。”
When plants first made the transition ashore more than 400 million years ago, the land was barren and desolate, inhospitable to life.
4亿多年前，植物第一次向海岸上迁移时，陆地上荒凉而贫瘠，并非生命宜居之地。
Perhaps struggle unfolds first, not at an economic or social level, but over the appropriation of air, essential to life itself.
也许首先展开的不是在经济或社会层面上的斗争，而是为占有对生命本身必不可少的空气而斗争。
I made the acquaintance of my best friend at the first day of my high school life.
我第一次遇见我最好的朋友是在高中生活的第一天。
Larval CoT starfish eat phytoplankton in their first month of life, so more fertilizer in the ocean means more phytoplankton, which means more starfish, bad for the reefs.
年幼的刺冠海星在出生后的第一个月就以浮游植物为食，所以海洋中肥料越多，浮游植物就越多，也意味着海星越多，这对珊瑚礁非常不利。
The reduced level of photosynthesis led to a massive decline in plant life of all kinds, and this caused massive starvation first of herbivores and subsequently of carnivores.
光合作用减弱导致各种植物大规模减少，进而这首先会使大规模的食草动物饿死，随后就是食肉动物。
First aid requires rapid assessment of victims to decide whether life-threatening conditions exist.
急救时需要对罹难者病情进行快速评估，以确定是否存在危及生命的情况。
The development of an understanding of the self becomes evident between the first and second years of life and shows rapid elaboration in subsequent years.
对自我理解的发展在生命的头一两年间变得明显，在随后的几年里快速地变得详尽。
When she first came to this city, she found life here a bit difficult to get used to.
她刚来这座城市的时候，发现要习惯这里的生活有点难。
Parents are entitled to 13 weeks' parental leave to be taken during the first five years of a child's life.
孩子出生后的头5年父母有权享受13周的产假。
The first rule—examine your life—is the common thread that runs through the entire book.
第一个准则——审视你的人生——是贯穿全书的主线。
In Tanzania, I met a mother with five children who was buying the first bed net in her life.
在坦桑尼亚，我遇到一位有五个孩子的母亲，当时她正在购买生命中的第一顶蚊帐。
Through her hard work, she passed the exams and was named "a star student" during the first period of her college life.
通过她的努力，她通过了考试，并在她的大学生活的第一阶段被评为“明星学生”。
In other words, we make our own happiness. The first secrect of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life.
换句话说，我们自己创造自己的幸福。幸福的第一个秘密是享受生活中简单的事情。
After the fall of Rome, the first European society to regulate behaviour in private life in accordance with a complicated code of etiquette was twelfth-century Provence, in France.
罗马帝国灭亡后，在欧洲，第一个按照复杂的礼节规范私人生活行为的社会，是12世纪法国的普罗旺斯。
The modern atmosphere supports many forms of complex life that would not have been able to exist in Earth's first atmosphere because the oxygen level was too low.
现代大气层支持着许多复杂的生命形式，而这些生命在地球最初的大气层中是不可能存在的，因为当时的氧气含量太低。
As America's first environmentalist, John Muir lived his life forever daring to undertake new adventures.
作为美国第一位环保主义者，约翰·缪尔一生都敢于冒险。
She brought me a cookie – a Viennese crescent she got from the best bakery in New York – and initiated the first of a life time of serious talks.
她给了我一块饼干——她从纽约最好的面包店买的维也纳式新月形饼干——开始了一生中第一次严肃的谈话。
Although e-bikes first appeared in the 90s, cheaper options and longer-lasting batteries are breathing new life into the concept.
虽然电动自行车最早出现在上世纪90年代，但更便宜的选择和更持久的电池正在给这一概念注入新的活力。
Although e-bikes first appeared in the 90s, cheaper options and longer-lasting batteries are breathing new life into the concept.
虽然电动自行车最早出现在上世纪90年代，但更便宜的选择和更持久的电池正在给这一概念注入新的活力。
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