a bit简单

But inventions shape all of us and it is worth noticing when techno-social habits do change, and asking whether to control them a bit or shield the youngest.

但发明塑造着我们所有人，当技术带来的社会习惯确实发生变化时，值得我们留意，并思考是否要对其稍加控制，或者保护好年龄最小的孩子们。

If you’re heading for your nearest branch of Waterstones, the biggest book retailer in the UK, in search of the Duchess of Sussex’s new children’s book The Bench, you might have to be prepared to hunt around a bit; the same may be true of The President’s Daughter, the new thriller by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.

如果你正前往离你最近的水石书店（英国最大的图书零售商）分店，寻找苏塞克斯公爵夫人的新童书《长椅》，你可能得做好四处翻找一番的准备；比尔·克林顿和詹姆斯·帕特森合著的新惊悚小说《总统的女儿》或许也是如此。

Big-name PRH authors may suffer a bit, but it’s those mid-list authors, who normally rely on Waterstones staff’s passion for promoting books by lesser-known writers, who will be praying for an end to the dispute.

企鹅兰登书屋的知名作者或许会受到一点影响，但真正会祈祷这场纠纷早日结束的，是那些中等销量的作者，他们通常依靠水石书店员工推广不太知名作家作品的热情。

This one may be a bit more difficult to pull off, but it can go a long way to achieving results.

这一点可能有点难以做到，但它对取得成效大有帮助。

"Harsh as it may be to say, that decision should likely not be made contingent on a child's opinions, but rather made for them with great consideration into what home can meet their needs best — and give them an opportunity to customize it a bit and make it their own."

“虽然这样说可能有些刺耳，但这个决定或许不应取决于孩子的意见，而应在充分考虑什么样的房子最能满足他们需求的基础上替他们做出——同时给他们机会对房子稍加布置，让它成为自己的家。”

Today, the [virtue] of work may be a bit overblown.

如今，工作的{{15}}也许有点被夸大了。

Probably a bit of both.

可能两样都有一点。

If we adults could indulge in a bit of silliness and giggling, we would reduce the stress hormones in our bodies, increase good hormones like endorphins, improve blood flow to our hearts and even have a greater chance of fighting off infection.

如果我们成年人能放纵自己犯点傻、咯咯笑一笑，就能减少体内的压力激素，增加内啡肽等有益激素，改善心脏的血液流动，甚至更有可能抵御感染。

This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte.

在托马斯·卡莱尔看来，这一切都有点资产阶级味道，他的传记聚焦于马丁·路德、奥利弗·克伦威尔和拿破仑·波拿巴这些真正英雄的人生。

But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

但耐人寻味的是，我们每周看到的那些毫无压力、增添幸福的为人父母的形象，是否在某种微小的、潜意识的层面上加深了我们对实际育儿经历的不满，就像我们内心有一小部分曾希望剪个“瑞秋头”就能让自己看起来有那么一点像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿一样。