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Today we fret about the isolating culture of smartphone-staring and selfie-vanity, but already in 1939 there was that lady regretting how, when all her street got wirelesses, it lost the neighbourly habit of “talking on the brush handle”.
如今我们为盯着智能手机、沉迷自拍虚荣所造成的孤立文化而烦恼，但早在1939年，就有那位女士惋惜，当她所在的整条街都装上了无线电后，邻里间“拄着扫帚柄聊天”的习惯就消失了。
As demand for healthcare continues to grow, pressures on the workforce — which is already near breaking point — will only become more acute.
随着医疗需求持续增长，医护队伍——已经接近崩溃边缘——所承受的压力只会更加严峻。
The Nagpur project has already created a risk and vulnerability map, which enabled Kotharkar to tell officials which neighborhoods to focus on in the event of a heat wave this summer.
那格浦尔项目已经绘制了一张风险与脆弱性地图，这使科塔卡尔能够告诉官员们，今年夏天一旦出现热浪，应重点关注哪些社区。
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“If you already know your major, having an extracurricular that fits into that major can be a big plus,” says Mayghin Levine, the manager of educational opportunities with The Cabbage Patch Settlement House, a Louisville, Kentucky, nonprofit community center.
肯塔基州路易斯维尔市非营利社区中心“卷心菜地睦邻之家”的教育机会经理梅金·莱文说：“如果你已经确定了自己的专业，拥有一项与该专业契合的课外活动会是一大加分项。”
In New Hampshire, where the rental vacancy rate has dropped below 1 percent, housing advocates fear unchecked short-term rentals will put further pressure on an already strained market.
在租赁空置率已降至1%以下的新罕布什尔州，住房倡导者担心，不受约束的短期租赁会给本已紧张的市场带来更大压力。
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It comes at a time when authors are already worried about the consequences of the proposed merger between PRH and another big publisher, Simon & Schuster — the reduction in the number of unaligned UK publishers is likely to lead to fewer bidding wars, lower advances, and more conformity in terms of what is published.
此事发生之时，作者们本已在担忧企鹅兰登书屋与另一家大型出版商西蒙与舒斯特拟议合并的后果——英国独立出版商数量的减少很可能导致竞价战减少、预付稿酬降低，以及出版内容更加趋同。
A Twitter account, which claims to “cut through the greenwash” of artificial grass, already has more than 20,000 followers.
一个声称要“揭穿”人造草坪“漂绿”行为的推特账号已经拥有超过2万名关注者。
The moves are the most significant change to building regulations in years, and industry experts say they will inevitably lead to higher prices at a time when a shortage of materials and high labour costs are already driving up bills.
这些举措是多年来对建筑法规最重大的一次修改。业内专家表示，在材料短缺和高昂人工成本已经推高费用之际，这些举措必然会导致价格进一步上涨。
“All this comes at an increased cost during a time when prices are already sky high.
“在价格已经高得离谱的时候，这一切都会带来更高的成本。
Materials prices are already up 25% in the last two years.
过去两年里，材料价格已经上涨了25%。
“Whilst admirable in their intentions, they will add to the cost of housebuilding at a time when many already feel that they are priced out of homeownership,” says Jonathan Rolande of the National Association of Property Buyers.
全国购房者协会的乔纳森·罗兰德说：“尽管这些规定的初衷值得称道，但在许多人已经觉得房价高到自己买不起房的时候，它们会增加建房成本。”
Many people feel that home prices are already beyond what they can afford.
许多人觉得房价已经超出了自己的承受能力。
“The object you make is already a time bomb.”
“你做出来的东西本身就已经是一颗定时炸弹。”
Thankfully, there are signs that this is already happening, with Generation Z seeking to learn from their millennial predecessors, even if parents and teachers tend to be still set in the degree mindset.
值得庆幸的是，已有迹象表明这种情况正在发生：Z世代正设法从他们的千禧一代前辈身上吸取经验，尽管家长和老师往往仍固守着学位至上的思维。
Their sons or daughters would never say such a thing; it’s as if they already know that their degree won’t define them in the same way.
他们的子女绝不会说这样的话；仿佛他们早已知道，自己的学位不会以同样的方式定义他们。
They’re already used in dozens of countries worldwide.
它们已在全球数十个国家得到采用。
Just 25 percent of the country’s land is suitable for crop-growing, most of which is already occupied by arable fields.
该国仅有25%的土地适合种植农作物，而其中大部分已被耕地占用。
But it has already sparked significant controversy, with the United States trade representative opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France.
但它已经引发了重大争议，美国贸易代表已就该税是否歧视美国公司展开调查，而这反过来可能导致对法国的贸易制裁。
(50) Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase “sapere aude” or “dare to know”, after Immanuel Kant used it in his essay “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”.
(50) 在伊曼努尔·康德在其论文《回答这个问题：什么是启蒙？》中使用了拉丁语短语“sapere aude”（即“敢于求知”）之后，这一短语便概括了这种探求知识、理解已知信息的行为。
The ruling is a victory for big chains with a presence in many states, since they usually collect sales tax on online purchases already.
这项裁决对在许多州都有实体存在的大型连锁店来说是一场胜利，因为它们通常已经在对网购商品征收销售税。
Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.
自2010年以来，干旱和虫害已经导致加州超过1亿棵树木死亡，其中大部分仅在2016年就已死亡，而野火已烧毁了数十万英亩土地。
New research on transportation biofuels is already under way.
关于交通生物燃料的新研究已经在进行中。
In many parts of the world renewable energy is already a principal energy source.
在世界许多地方，可再生能源已经成为主要能源。
With Britain voting to leave the European Union, and GDP already predicted to slow as a result, it is now a timely moment to assess what he was referring to.
随着英国投票脱离欧盟，且GDP已被预测将因此放缓，现在正是评估他所指为何的适当时机。
“It’s already a huge problem from a public expenditure perspective for the whole country,” he says.
“从公共支出的角度来看，这对整个国家来说已经是一个大问题，”他说。
The French measures have already failed.
法国的举措已经失败。
In other words, if you’re going to make a print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it.
换句话说，如果你要做印刷产品，就为那些已经对它着迷的人去做。
Which may be what the Times is doing already.
而这或许正是《纽约时报》已经在做的事。
[For example], he theorised that a judge [fearful] of appearing too soft [on] crime might be more likely to send someone to prison [if] he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.
例如，他提出理论认为，一位害怕显得对犯罪过于手软的法官，如果当天已经对另外五六名被告只判处了强制社区服务，那么他就更有可能把下一个人送进监狱。
The company seems to have concluded that its reputation in Vermont is already so damaged that it has nothing left to lose by going to war with the state.
该公司似乎认定自己在佛蒙特州的声誉已经受损严重，即使与该州开战也没什么可再失去的了。
Little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.
重复和证实已知已信的东西几乎得不到什么回报。
Politicians have repeatedly “backloaded” public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.
政客们一再对公共部门的薪酬协议进行“后置”处理，即保持适度的加薪幅度，却增加本已丰厚的假期，尤其是养老金。
Companies are unlikely to file many more patents for human DNA molecules — most are already patented or in the public domain.
公司不太可能再为人类DNA分子申请更多专利——它们大多已获专利或已进入公有领域。
Google and Microsoft are among companies that already have these “single sign-on” systems that make it possible for users to [log in] just once but use many different services.
谷歌和微软等公司已经拥有这类“单点登录”系统，用户只需登录一次就能使用许多不同的服务。
The recession threatened to remove the advertising and readers that had not already fled to the internet.
经济衰退可能会夺走那些尚未流向互联网的广告和读者。