quite简单

I’ve found quite a few, and — since I started posting them on Twitter — they have been causing quite a stir.

我已经找到了不少，而且自从我开始在推特上发布它们，这些照片就引起了不小的轰动。

The robot rats were quite minimalist, resembling a chunkier version of a computer mouse with wheels to move around and colourful markings.

这些机器鼠的设计相当简单，看起来像是一个更厚实的电脑鼠标，装有用来四处移动的轮子，并带有彩色标记。

They have trouble seeing a financial future and they are quite risk averse.”

他们很难看到经济上的前景，而且相当厌恶风险。”

Unfortunately, the long-term costs of using simple quantitative metrics to assess researcher merit are likely to be quite great.

不幸的是，用简单的量化指标来评估研究人员价值的长期代价可能相当大。

He thinks his job as a technician quite challenging.

他认为自己的技师工作很有挑战性。

But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students.

但这篇文章实际上相当乐观，因为它概述了解决这一问题的一个可能方案，提出一种方法（包括一个时长一小时、几乎零成本的项目）可以将第一代大学生与其他学生之间的成就差距（以成绩等因素衡量）缩小63%。

(48) Algorithms that are used to simulate human interactions are creating many of these concerns, especially as no-one is quite sure what the outcomes of using AI to interact with customers will be.

(48) 用于模拟人际互动的算法正在引发许多此类担忧，尤其是因为没有人能确定使用人工智能与客户互动会带来什么结果。

The growth of higher education manifests itself in at least three quite different ways, and these in turn have given rise to different sets of problems.

高等教育的增长至少表现为三种截然不同的方式，而这些方式又相应地引发了不同的问题。

Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.

金钱或许买不到幸福，但富裕国家的人通常比贫穷国家的人更幸福。

It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless.

那么，拿为人父母者的遗憾与无子女者的遗憾作比较，似乎就不太公平了。

The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr. Menand, is to alter the way in which “the producers of knowledge are produced.” Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise. “Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.” Yet quite how that happens, Mr. Menand does not say.

梅南先生总结道，改革高等教育的关键在于改变“知识生产者被培养出来”的方式。否则，学者们的思维将继续危险地趋同，与他们所研究、调查和批评的社会日益脱节。“至少在某些领域，学术探究可能需要减少排他性，变得更加全面。”然而，究竟如何做到这一点，梅南先生并没有说。

I’ve found quite a few, and — since I started posting them on Twitter — they have been causing quite a stir.

我已经找到了不少，而且自从我开始在推特上发布它们，这些照片就引起了不小的轰动。