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v. 使愉快,使满意3 次
pleasing
取悦
Grade inflation — the gradual increase in average GPAs (grade-point averages) over the past few decades — is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.
分数膨胀——过去几十年来平均GPA(平均绩点)的逐步上升——常被认为是高等教育消费时代的产物,在这个时代,学生被当作需要取悦的顾客。
Be easily pleased
容易满足
v. 请2 次
This universal protection sends the [message]: “please don’t approach me.”
这种普遍的自我保护传递出这样的信息:“请不要靠近我。”
“Dare to be different, please don't smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers — teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.
“敢于与众不同,请不要吸烟!”一则旨在减少青少年吸烟的广告牌宣传如此恳求——而青少年最渴望的恰恰就是融入群体。
v. 喜欢,愿意2 次
It is fair to criticize and question the mechanism — that is the culture of research, after all — but it is the prize-givers’ money to do with as they please.
批评和质疑这种机制是合理的——毕竟这就是科研文化——但那是颁奖者的钱,他们想怎么用就怎么用。
For: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.”
因为:“人们创造自己的历史,但是他们并不是随心所欲地创造;并不是在他们自己选定的条件下创造,而是在直接碰到的、既定的、从过去承继下来的条件下创造。”