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You might have [concerns] about losing control of whatever it is you are asking for help with.

你可能会{{6}}，担心对你所求助的事情失去控制。

Perhaps most encouraging of all is a paper from 2022 by researchers at Stanford University, in California, that involved a mix of contrived help-seeking interactions and asking people to [recall] times they’d sought help in the past.

也许最令人鼓舞的是加州斯坦福大学研究人员2022年发表的一篇论文，该研究既设计了求助互动情境，又让人们{{16}}自己过去求助的经历。

So bear all this in mind the next time you need to ask for help.

所以，下次你需要求助时，请记住这一切。

[Also], take care over who you ask and when you ask them.

{{19}}，要谨慎选择向谁求助以及何时求助。

[Also], take care over who you ask and when you ask them.

{{19}}，要谨慎选择向谁求助以及何时求助。

The prevalence of digital payment devices has made it easier to ask customers for a tip.

数字支付设备的普及让向顾客索要小费变得更容易。

However, many customers are frustrated because they feel they are being asked for too high of a tip too often.

然而，许多顾客感到不满，因为他们觉得自己被要求支付过高小费的次数太多了。

So whether you’re suggesting a (seemingly) benign change like streamlining outdated protocol, or a bigger change like adding an hour to each workday so people can leave early on Fridays, you’re asking others to reimagine their workflow or schedule.

因此，无论你提出的是（看似）无害的改变，比如精简过时的规程，还是更大的改变，比如每个工作日多工作一小时以便大家周五能早点下班，你都是在要求别人重新设想自己的工作流程或日程安排。

While hunter-gatherer children learnt from observation and imitation in mixed-age playgroups, researchers said that western “instructive teaching”, where pupils are asked to sit still, may contribute to conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

狩猎采集社会的孩子在混龄游戏群体中通过观察和模仿来学习，而研究人员称，西方要求学生安静坐好的“指令式教学”可能会导致注意缺陷多动障碍等问题。

I would ask that the foreign nations and the original country discuss the terms of transfer.

我希望外国与原属国商讨移交的条件。

To those of you in the comments section who are having strong feelings about artifacts being removed from cities in the US and Britain and returned to their countries of origin, I would ask you to consider: why do you think Americans have more of a right to easily access the Benin Bronzes than the people of Nigeria?

对于评论区里那些对文物从美国和英国的城市移走、归还原属国反应强烈的人，我想请你们思考一下：为什么你们认为美国人比尼日利亚人更有权利便捷地看到贝宁青铜器？

And for authors who wish to steer clear of citation cartel activities: when an editor, a reviewer, or a support service asks you to add inappropriate references, do not oblige and do report the request to the journal.

对于希望远离引用联盟活动的作者来说：当编辑、审稿人或支持服务机构要求你添加不恰当的参考文献时，不要照办，并且一定要向期刊举报这一要求。

ask authors to include extra citations.

要求作者加入额外的引用。

As an effective Washington operator, Hayden sensed that he could capitalize on the expedition’s stunning visuals. He asked Jackson to print out large copies and distributed them, along with reproductions of Moran’s paintings, to each member of Congress. “The visualization, particularly those photographs, really hit home that this is something that has to be protected,” says Murphy.

作为一名在华盛顿很有手腕的人物，海登意识到他可以利用这次考察所获得的震撼影像。他让杰克逊冲印出大幅照片，并将这些照片连同莫兰画作的复制品一起分发给每一位国会议员。“这些视觉呈现，特别是那些照片，真正让人深刻认识到这是必须加以保护的东西，”墨菲说。

In 2011, Sparrow led a study in which participants were asked to record 40 factoids in a computer (“an ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain,” for example).

2011年，斯帕罗主持了一项研究，要求参与者把40条趣闻琐事录入电脑（例如“鸵鸟的眼睛比它的大脑还大”）。

In the same study, a group was asked to remember both the information and the folders it was stored in.

在同一项研究中，有一组人被要求既记住信息，又记住存放信息的文件夹。

This week, it asked the five most valuable US tech companies for information about their many small acquisitions over the past decade.

本周，它要求美国市值最高的五家科技公司提供过去十年中它们众多小型收购的信息。

In one study of the ability she called “thin slicing” the late psychologist Nalini Ambady asked participants to watch silent 10-second video clips of professors and to rate the instructor’s overall effectiveness.

已故心理学家纳里妮·安巴迪在一项针对她称之为“薄片撷取”能力的研究中，让参与者观看教授们10秒钟的无声视频片段，并对授课者的整体教学效果打分。

Critically, another group was asked to spend a minute writing down reasons for their judgment, before giving the rating.

关键的是，另一组参与者被要求在打分前花一分钟写下他们做出判断的理由。

College students’ ratings of strawberry jams and college courses aligned better with experts’ opinions when the students weren’t asked to analyze their rationale.

当大学生不被要求分析自己的理由时，他们对草莓酱和大学课程的评分与专家意见更加一致。

And people made car-buying decisions that were both objectively better and more personally satisfying when asked to focus on their feelings rather than on details, but only if the decision was complex — when they had a lot of information to process.

而当人们被要求关注自己的感受而非细节时，他们做出的购车决定在客观上更好，个人也更满意，但这仅限于决策复杂的情况——即他们有大量信息需要处理时。

Ask permission to disagree

请求允许提出异议

Next time you talk with someone who takes a stand, ask them to give you a reason for their view.

下次你和持有某种立场的人交谈时，请他们为自己的观点给出理由。

They could even be harmful, satisfying a need to have "done our bit" without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions — a kind of "moral licensing" that eases our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.

它们甚至可能有害，因为它们满足了我们“已尽了自己一份力”的需要，却从未推动我们采取更大、更大胆、更有效的行动——这是一种“道德许可”，它缓解了我们的担忧，却让我们不再做更多的事，也不再对掌权者提出更多要求。

Imagine you are pouring your heart out to someone and they are just busy on their phone, and if you ask for their attention you get the response “I can multitask.”

想象一下，你正在向某人倾诉衷肠，而他们却只顾着忙手机，如果你请他们注意听，得到的回答是“我可以一心多用”。

Ask for an opinion.

征求意见。

Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the then-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story. With characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour’s pictures illustrate his own story instead. After the first installment, Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt was not faithful enough to his prose. Seymour made the change, went into his backyard, and expressed his displeasure by committing suicide. Dickens and his publishers simply pressed on with a new artist. The comic novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, appeared serially in 1836 and 1837, and was first published in book form in 1837.

《博兹随笔》问世后不久，一家出版公司找到狄更斯，请他按月分期创作一个故事，作为当时著名画家罗伯特·西摩一系列木刻画的背景故事，而这个故事的构想最初正是出自西摩。狄更斯以他特有的自信，成功地坚持让西摩的画反过来为他自己的故事配图。第一期刊出后，狄更斯写信给这位画家，要求他修改一幅狄更斯认为不够忠实于其文字的插图。西摩改了画，走进自家后院，以自杀的方式表达了他的不满。狄更斯和他的出版商干脆换了一位新画家继续推进。这部喜剧小说《匹克威克俱乐部遗稿》于1836年和1837年连载，并于1837年首次以书籍形式出版。

In it, a mother is asked to interact with her child in a normal way before putting on a blank expression and not giving them any visual social feedback: the child becomes increasingly distressed as she tries to capture her mother’s attention.

实验中，母亲先被要求以正常方式与孩子互动，然后摆出一副面无表情的样子，不给孩子任何视觉上的社交反馈：孩子在试图吸引母亲注意的过程中变得越来越苦恼。

A young man can [decide on] a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to [arrange] the marriage negotiations, or the young man’s parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

年轻男子可以自己选定一位合适的配偶，然后请父母安排婚事商谈；也可能由男方父母来选择配偶，孩子在选择中几乎没有发言权。

If you’re not sure, ask for honest feedback from trusted friends, colleagues and professionals.

如果你不确定，可以向信赖的朋友、同事和专业人士征求坦诚的反馈。

Ask for help

寻求帮助

California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

加利福尼亚州已请求大法官们不要做出全面性的裁决，尤其是推翻“当局可在逮捕嫌疑人时搜查其随身物品”这一旧有观念的裁决。

In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a [conversation].

在2011年的一项实验中，行为科学家尼古拉斯·埃普利和朱莉安娜·施罗德让通勤者做一件难以想象的事：开启一段对话。

“When Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to [predict] how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their [ride] would be more pleasant if they sat on their own,” The New York Times summarizes.

《纽约时报》总结道：“当埃普利博士和施罗德女士请同一火车站的其他人预测自己与陌生人交谈后会有何感受时，这些通勤者认为独自坐着旅程会更愉快。”

In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education.”

2010年，国会中民主党和共和党的领袖人物致信美国艺术与科学院，要求其确定“联邦、州和地方政府、大学、基金会、教育工作者、个人捐助者及其他各方”可以采取哪些行动，以“保持国家在人文社会科学学术和教育方面的卓越地位”。

Yet its report may well set back reform by obscuring the depth and breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate.

然而，它的报告掩盖了国会要求其阐明的这一挑战的深度和广度，很可能会阻碍改革。

Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.

他没有简单地让人们将自己的相貌与他人比较打分，而是让他们从一组照片中认出自己的原始照片，这组照片中包含经过修改、显得更有吸引力或更没有吸引力的版本。

ask for a moderate salary.

要求适中的薪水。

ask for expert advice.

征求专家的建议。

have asked for a different educational standard.

要求采用不同的教育标准。

In an experiment published in 1988, social psychologist Fritz Strack of the University of Würzburg in Germany asked volunteers to [hold] a pen either with their teeth — thereby creating an artificial smile — or with their lips, which would produce a(n) [disappointed] expression.

在1988年发表的一项实验中，德国维尔茨堡大学的社会心理学家弗里茨·斯特拉克让志愿者要么用牙齿咬住一支笔——由此制造出一个假笑——要么用嘴唇含住笔，这会产生一种失望的表情。

It would be absurd to try to track the changing price of sports cars since 1695, but to ask the same question of nails makes perfect sense.

试图追踪自1695年以来跑车价格的变化是荒谬的，但对钉子提出同样的问题却完全合理。

Next time you state your position, formulate an argument for what you claim and honestly ask yourself whether your argument is any good.

下次你陈述自己的立场时，为你的主张构建一个论证，并诚实地问问自己这个论证是否站得住脚。

Asking them questions about what they like about the backyard of a potential home will make them feel like they're being included in the decision-making process, Bailey said.

贝利说，问问他们喜欢候选房屋后院的什么地方，会让他们觉得自己参与了决策过程。

The tester would ask, “What’s in here?” before looking into the container, smiling, and exclaiming, “Wow!”

测试员会先问：“这里面有什么？”然后往容器里看，面带微笑地惊呼：“哇！”

So don’t be afraid to ask more personal questions.

所以不要害怕问一些更私人的问题。

Trust me, you’ll be surprised to see how much people are willing to share if you just ask.

相信我，只要你开口问，你会惊讶地发现人们愿意分享的东西有那么多。

Asked about his choice of career, he says at high school he considered medical school before switching to electrical engineering.

当被问及他的职业选择时，他说上高中时曾考虑过读医学院，后来才转向了电气工程。

Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.”

当被问及是否有特定论文促成了这一变化时，麦克纳特说：“设立‘统计委员会’是出于对科学研究中统计和数据分析应用的广泛担忧，也是《科学》杂志提高所发表研究的可重复性这一整体努力的一部分。”

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived.

令人震惊的发现之一是，丽贝卡·布鲁克斯对自己新闻编辑部里发生的事知之甚少，她也很少想到过问，而且她从未询问过那些报道是如何得来的。

Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions — nor received traceable, recorded answers.

布鲁克斯女士对她的记者如何获得新闻也许有过怀疑，也许没有，但她不提问、不下指示——也没有得到可追溯、有记录的答复。

The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.

劳工部所用的调查会询问人们在参考周内的工作时间是否少于35小时。

The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.

调查接着会问，他们那一周工作不足35小时，是因为他们想做非全职工作，还是因为别无选择。

Ask anyone newly unemployed what they want and the answer is always: a job.

问问任何一个刚失业的人想要什么，答案总是：一份工作。

Soon you’ll feel comfortable asking if they’ve any knuckles of ham for soups and stews, or beef bones, chicken carcasses and fish heads for stock which, more often than not, they’ll let you have for free.

很快你就能自在地问他们有没有火腿肘可以用来煲汤炖菜，或者有没有牛骨、鸡架和鱼头可以用来熬高汤，而他们往往会免费送给你。