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n. 事情16 次
And just read a single poem. In his Oxford lectures, Seamus Heaney argued that a poem draws a picture of reality, a “glimpsed alternative” that sets up a contradiction with your own, in ways little and large. The negotiation, between you and it, is the heart of the matter. What does the poet see that you don’t? What does the difference mean? It could be one of the best conversations you ever have. Forget self-help books; reading is self-help in action.
再读一首诗就好。谢默斯·希尼在牛津的讲座中提出，一首诗描绘了一幅现实图景，即一种“瞥见的另一种可能”，它在大大小小的方面与你自己的现实形成矛盾。你与诗之间的协商才是问题的核心。诗人看到了什么你没看到的东西？这种差异意味着什么？这可能是你一生中最好的对话之一。忘掉那些自助类书籍吧；阅读本身就是付诸行动的自助。
Flo Health and the FTC settled the matter with a Consent Order requiring the company to get app users’ express affirmative consent before sharing their health information as well as to instruct the third parties to delete the data they had obtained.
Flo Health与联邦贸易委员会以一份同意令了结此事，该同意令要求该公司在共享应用用户的健康信息之前须获得用户明确的肯定同意，并指示第三方删除其已获取的数据。
It added: “We prefer to help people and organizations make the right choice rather than legislating on such matters.
政府还补充道：“我们更愿意帮助个人和组织作出正确的选择，而不是就此类事务立法。
The rise of home prices is a temporary matter.
房价上涨是暂时的。
Some people like small talk in a meeting before digging into important matters, while other are more straightforward.
有些人喜欢在会议中先闲聊几句再深入讨论重要事项，而另一些人则更加直截了当。
Younger children should feel like they're choosing their home — without actually getting a choice in the matter, said Adam Bailey, real estate attorney based in New York.
纽约的房地产律师亚当·贝利说，应该让年幼的孩子感觉是自己在选房子——但实际上并不让他们在这件事上做选择。
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“When I come home from a hard day’s work, I often feel [tired],” Danaher says, adding, “In a world in which I don’t have to work, I might feel rather different” — perhaps different enough to throw himself [into] a hobby or a passion project with the intensity usually reserved for [professional] matters.
“当我辛苦工作一天回到家时，我常常感到{{18}}，”丹纳赫说，并补充道，“在一个我不必工作的世界里，我的感觉可能会大不相同”——也许不同到足以让他以通常只留给{{20}}事务的那种热情{{19}}一项爱好或一个热衷的项目。
simplify routine matters.
简化日常事务。
“The Heart of the Matter,” the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.
美国艺术与科学院（AAAS）刚刚发布的报告《问题的核心》值得称赞，因为它肯定了人文社会科学对美国自由民主的繁荣与安全的重要性。
Unfortunately, despite 2½ years in the making, “The Heart of the Matter” never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.
遗憾的是，尽管历时两年半才完成，《问题的核心》却始终没有触及问题的核心：我国一流高校中博雅教育的“不博雅”本质。
Unfortunately, despite 2½ years in the making, “The Heart of the Matter” never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.
遗憾的是，尽管历时两年半才完成，《问题的核心》却始终没有触及问题的核心：我国一流高校中博雅教育的“不博雅”本质。
Ways to Grasp “The Heart of the Matter”.
把握《问题的核心》的方法。
Illiberal Education and “The Heart of the Matter”.
“不博雅”的教育与《问题的核心》。
But on the more important matter of the Constitution, the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration’s effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.
但在更为重要的宪法问题上，这一裁决以8比0的结果挫败了政府打破联邦政府与各州之间权力平衡的企图。
The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings.
在负责制定教育政策的学校董事会调查此事并举行公开听证会期间，这些作业规定应当暂缓执行。
Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.
直到20世纪初，儿童根本没有用颜色来区分：在家用洗衣机出现之前的年代，出于实际考虑，所有婴儿都穿白色，因为把衣服洗干净的唯一办法就是用水煮。
v. 有关系，要紧12 次
Sir John Reith said that it would end “isolation of the spirit” and rejoiced: “It does not matter how many thousands may be listening, there is always enough for others...the genius and the fool, the wealthy and the poor listen simultaneously.”
约翰·里思爵士说，它将终结“精神上的孤立”，并欣喜地表示：“无论有成千上万的人在收听，总还有足够的空间留给其他人……天才与傻瓜、富人与穷人都在同时收听。”
Modern (Sebastian Barry or Olga Tokarczuk), classic (Virginia Woolf or James Baldwin) or genre (Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Georges Simenon) — it doesn’t matter.
现代作品（塞巴斯蒂安·巴里或奥尔加·托卡尔丘克）、经典作品（弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫或詹姆斯·鲍德温）还是类型小说（斯蒂芬·金、玛格丽特·阿特伍德、乔治·西默农）——都无所谓。
This is why the recent severe delays caused by numerous maintenance works have thrown the rail industry into chaos at a time when most people head on holiday, which matters for business in a country where tourism accounts for 10 percent of GDP.
正因如此，近期大量维修工程造成的严重延误，在大多数人外出度假之际让铁路行业陷入混乱，而在一个旅游业占GDP 10%的国家，这对经济事关重大。
Again, the story an exhibit is trying to tell is what matters.
再说一遍，重要的是展览想要讲述的故事。
However, college admissions experts say that the quality of a college hopeful’s extracurricular activities matters more than the number of activities he or she participates in.
然而，大学招生专家表示，一名有志上大学者的课外活动质量比他或她参加的活动数量更重要。
What matters is that they will belong to a private monopoly which developed them using public resources.
重要的是，这些算法将归属于一个利用公共资源开发它们的私人垄断企业。
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It measures things that do not matter and misses things that do.
它衡量的是无关紧要的东西，而遗漏了真正重要的东西。
Those things might be social, sporting, creative or completely random (dancing around the living room, anyone?) — it doesn’t matter, so long as they’re enjoyable, and not likely to have negative side effects, such as drinking too much alcohol or going on a wild spending spree if you’re on a tight budget.
这些事情可能是社交的、运动的、创造性的，或者完全随性的（有人想在客厅里跳舞吗？）——这都无所谓，只要它们令人愉快，并且不太可能带来负面影响，比如饮酒过量，或者在手头拮据时疯狂购物。
The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation.
重要的字眼是效率、灵活性、股东价值、有利于商业、创造财富、销售额、影响力，在报业则是发行量。
Moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper.
编辑报纸时道德意识很重要。
Finally, there is perspective, which involves acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesn’t matter.
最后是换个角度看问题，即承认从人生的大格局来看，一堂课真的无关紧要。
Conversely, if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade.
反之，如果家庭作业重要，它就应当在成绩中占相当大的比重。
n. 物质，物体2 次
Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act another.
由于我们大多数人相信精神与物质是分离的，我们便认为思想可以被隐藏起来，并使其失去作用；这使得我们可以想的是一套，做的却是另一套。
There is no gap between mind and matter.
精神与物质之间并没有鸿沟。
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No matter how you “enhance” enclosures, they do not allow for freedom, a natural diet or adequate exercise.
无论你如何“改善”围栏，它们都无法给予动物自由、天然的饮食或充分的运动。
Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate.
那一天究竟何时到来尚存争议。
No matter how formal or informal the work environment, the way you present yourself has an impact.
无论工作环境正式与否，你展现自己的方式都会产生影响。
(48) Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are.
(48) 心理健康使我们在他人遇到麻烦时报以同情，在他人痛苦时报以善意，并且无论对方是谁，都报以无条件的爱。
No matter how isolated you might feel and how serious the situation is, you should always remember that you are not alone.
无论你感到多么孤立，情况多么严重，你都应该始终记住，你并不孤单。
Obesity is probably less a matter of weight than body fat.
肥胖与其说是体重问题，不如说是体脂问题。
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Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year — about 64 items per person — and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.
她发现，美国人每年购买约200亿件衣服——人均约64件——无论他们捐出多少，这种过量消费都会造成浪费。
After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top positions — no matter how much “soft pressure” is put upon them.
毕竟，四十年来的证据已经表明，无论对欧洲和美国的公司施加多大的“软压力”，它们都在回避按照能力录用女性并将其提拔到高层职位。