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If it’s their vacation home anyway, and it’s just empty, why can’t you make money off it?” Horn said.

如果那反正是他们的度假屋，而且就那么空着，为什么不能用它赚钱呢？”霍恩说。

Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.

每个人都想知道，即将入驻那些空置办公隔间的人会与他们的前辈有何不同。

Half of them found a toy; the other half [discovered] the container was empty — and realized the tester had [fooled] them.

其中一半找到了一个玩具；另一半则{{16}}容器是空的——并意识到测试员{{17}}了他们。

“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.”

加里·埃伯利在他的《神圣时间》一书中写道：“未来像一个个空瓶子沿着一条无法停止、几乎无限长的传送带向我们涌来”，并且“我们感到一种压力，要在这些大小不一的瓶子（日、时、分）经过时将其装满，因为如果它们未被装满就溜走了，我们就浪费了它们。”

The “empty bottles” metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to ____

“空瓶子”的比喻说明人们感到一种压力，要____

Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.

密斯精巧的设计表现手法掩盖了一个事实：他设计的空间小而实用，而非大而空旷。

empty promises.

空洞的承诺。