figure简单

Many of the most celebrated national figures have participated in historical events that have taken place within the EEOB’s granite walls. Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, and George H. W. Bush all had offices in this building before becoming President. It has housed 16 Secretaries of the Navy, 21 Secretaries of War, and 24 Secretaries of State. Winston Churchill once walked its corridors and Japanese emissaries met here with Secretary of State Cordell Hull after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

许多最著名的国家人物都参与过在艾森豪威尔行政办公大楼花岗岩墙内发生的历史事件。西奥多·罗斯福和富兰克林·D·罗斯福、威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱、德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔、林登·B·约翰逊、杰拉尔德·福特以及乔治·H·W·布什在成为总统之前都曾在这座大楼里办公。这里曾是16位海军部长、21位陆军部长和24位国务卿的办公地。温斯顿·丘吉尔曾走过它的走廊，珍珠港遭轰炸后，日本使节曾在这里与国务卿科德尔·赫尔会面。

There were Pickwick coats and Pickwick cigars, and the plump, spectacled hero, Samuel Pickwick, became a national figure.

市面上出现了匹克威克外套和匹克威克雪茄，那位胖乎乎、戴眼镜的主人公塞缪尔·匹克威克成了家喻户晓的人物。

But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.

但与海湾地区和亚洲的专制君主不同，大多数王室之所以得以存续，是因为它们让选民免于艰难地寻找一位没有争议又受人尊敬的公众人物。

to give voters more public figures to look up to.

为了给选民更多可以仰慕的公众人物。

Among the commission’s 51 members are top-tier-university presidents, scholars, lawyers, judges, and business executives, as well as prominent figures from diplomacy, filmmaking, music and journalism.

该委员会的51名成员中有顶尖大学的校长、学者、律师、法官和企业高管，还有外交、电影、音乐和新闻界的知名人士。

Influential figures in the Congress required that the AAAS report on how to ____

国会中有影响力的人物要求美国艺术与科学院就如何____提交报告

There are many caveats to those figures, but they are still grave.

这些数字有许多需要说明的前提，但它们依然令人担忧。

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly funded research; both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.

荷兰巨头爱思唯尔声称出版了全世界25%的科学论文，去年利润超过9亿英镑；而仅英国的大学在2016年就花费了2.1亿多英镑，让研究人员能够查阅他们自己由公共资金资助的研究；尽管人们为改变这一状况所作的努力越来越孤注一掷，这两个数字似乎仍在势不可挡地上升。

For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention — so better grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money.

对公立院校来说，州政府的拨款有时部分取决于它们在毕业率和学生保留率等指标上的表现——因此，更好的成绩可以通过提升这类数据而带来更多资金。

By most recent measures, the UK’s GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

按照最近的大多数衡量标准，英国的GDP一直令西方世界羡慕，失业率创历史新低，增长数据也很高。

But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.

但是，那些把精力重新集中在提升福祉上、而不是只担心GDP数据的政策制定者，可能会避免所预测的厄运，甚至可能看到进步。

GDP Figures, a Window on Global Economic Health.

GDP数据：洞察全球经济健康状况的窗口。

figures

（figure out）弄清

It’s especially vulnerable to light damage, and by the mid-1990s, Gilardi’s pumpkins, roses, and other figures were splitting and crumbling.

它特别容易受到光照损害，到20世纪90年代中期，吉拉尔迪的南瓜、玫瑰和其他造型都在开裂、碎裂。

“There is a coalition growing within artist industries to figure out how to tackle or mitigate this,” says Ortiz.

“艺术行业内部正在形成一个联盟，研究如何解决或缓解这一问题，”奥尔蒂斯说。

In one study, participants completed a battery of eight tasks, including four that tapped reflective thinking (discerning rules, comprehending vocabulary) and four that tapped intuition and creativity (generating new products or figures of speech).

在一项研究中，参与者完成了一组共八项任务，其中四项调用反思性思维（辨别规则、理解词汇），四项调用直觉和创造力（构想新产品或修辞手法）。

California is leading the way, as it does on so many climate efforts, in figuring out the details.

正如在许多应对气候问题的努力中一样，加州正率先研究其中的细节。

Taking a gap year to figure things out initially can help prevent stress and save money later on.

一开始就利用间隔年把事情想清楚，有助于避免日后的压力并节省开支。

“Figuring out a way to accelerate that transition would make sense for them,” he said, “but if you discontinue it, you’re going to have your most loyal customers really upset with you.”

他说：“想办法加快这一转型对他们来说是合理的，但如果你直接停掉印刷版，你最忠实的客户会对你非常不满。”

The problem with being a grownup is that there’s an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with — work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.

作为成年人的问题在于，有非常多严肃的事情要处理——工作、房贷、琢磨晚饭做什么。