reason简单

The term caravan was used to [describe] groups of people who travelled together across the ancient network for safety reasons, [such as] merchants, travellers or pilgrims.

“商队”一词用来描述出于安全原因结伴穿越这一古老路网的人群，例如商人、旅行者或朝圣者。

For this reason, caravanserais were strategically placed [so that] they could be reached in a day’s travel time.

因此，商队客栈的位置经过精心规划，以便旅行者走一天的路程就能到达。

Moreover, increased privatization would certainly undercut one of the major reasons why 300 million visitors come to the parks each year: to enjoy nature and get a break from the commercial drumbeat that overwhelms daily life.

此外，加大私有化力度必定会削弱每年3亿游客前来公园的主要原因之一：享受自然，暂时摆脱充斥日常生活的商业喧嚣。

Other reasons, according to the study, include personal fulfillment such as staying mentally fit, preventing boredom or avoiding depression.

根据这项研究，其他原因还包括个人满足感，比如保持头脑健康、防止无聊或避免抑郁。

One reason for the change in retirement patterns: Americans are living longer.

退休模式发生变化的一个原因是：美国人的寿命更长了。

The regulations aim to ban dark patterns — this means prohibiting companies from using “confusing language or unnecessary steps such as forcing them to click through multiple screens or listen to reasons why they shouldn’t opt out.”

这些法规旨在禁止暗黑模式——这意味着禁止公司使用“令人困惑的语言或不必要的步骤，例如强迫消费者点击多个页面，或听取他们为什么不应该选择退出的理由”。

They chose this particular behavior for three reasons, according to study co-author Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher at the University of California, Riverside: students’ attitudes on the topic are variable and unstable, behavior is easily measurable, and ethics literature largely agrees that eating less meat is good because it reduces environmental harm and animal suffering.

据该研究的合著者、加州大学河滨分校的哲学家埃里克·施维茨格贝尔说，他们选择这一特定行为有三个原因：学生对这一话题的态度多变且不稳定；这种行为很容易衡量；伦理学文献大体上认同少吃肉是好的，因为这能减少环境危害和动物痛苦。

Least rousing, he thinks, was rational argument, although his co-authors say reason might play a bigger role.

他认为，最不能打动人的是理性论证，尽管他的合著者说理性可能发挥了更大的作用。

Which of the following is a reason for the researchers to study meat eating?

下列哪一项是研究人员研究吃肉行为的原因？

One reason for the turnaround may be the country’s antipoverty program.

这一转变的原因之一可能是该国的扶贫计划。

In the UK, it has become a big talking point recently too, for a rather particular reason: Brexit.

在英国，它最近也成了一个热门话题，原因相当特殊：脱欧。

There is a good reason why the UK is dominated by animal husbandry: most of its terrain doesn’t have the right soil or climate to grow crops on a commercial basis.

英国以畜牧业为主是有充分理由的：其大部分地区没有适合商业化种植农作物的土壤或气候。

Critically, another group was asked to spend a minute writing down reasons for their judgment, before giving the rating.

关键的是，另一组参与者被要求在打分前花一分钟写下他们做出判断的理由。

I have reasons to think that won’t work.

我有理由认为那行不通。

I’d like to lay out my reasoning.

我想说明一下我的理由。

It was with these great revelations that a new kind of philosophy founded in reason was born.

正是伴随着这些伟大的发现，一种以理性为基础的新哲学诞生了。

(49) As many took on the duty of trying to integrate reasoning and scientific philosophies into the world, the Renaissance was over and it was time for a new era — the Age of Reason.

(49) 随着许多人承担起将理性推理和科学哲学融入世界的职责，文艺复兴结束了，一个新的时代——理性时代到来了。

It’s not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S. economy.

这么说并不讨喜，但他们的薪酬上涨如此之多的一个原因是，相对于美国经济中的许多其他从业者，首席执行官们确实提升了自己的水平。

These views of arguments also undermine reason.

这些对争论的看法也会损害理性。

Next time you talk with someone who takes a stand, ask them to give you a reason for their view.

下次你和持有某种立场的人交谈时，请他们为自己的观点给出理由。

Of course, many discussions are not so successful. Still, we need to be careful not to accuse opponents of bad arguments too quickly. We need to learn how to evaluate them properly. A large part of evaluation is calling out bad arguments, but we also need to admit good arguments by opponents and to apply the same critical standards to ourselves. Humility requires you to recognize weaknesses in your own arguments and sometimes also to accept reasons on the opposite side.

当然，许多讨论并没有这么成功。尽管如此，我们仍需注意不要过快地指责对手的论证糟糕。我们需要学会如何恰当地评价论证。评价的很大一部分是指出糟糕的论证，但我们也需要承认对手的好论证，并用同样的批判标准要求自己。谦逊要求你认识到自己论证中的弱点，有时还要接受对立一方的理由。

reasons

原因

A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is “reader error,” more so than made-up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

巴纳研究集团的一项调查发现，美国人认为假新闻现象的首要原因是“读者的错误”，其程度超过了编造的报道或报道中的事实错误。

There are many reasons this formerly stable federal institution finds itself on the verge of bankruptcy.

这个曾经稳定的联邦机构如今濒临破产，原因有很多。

It has not gotten anywhere close to that, and one big reason is sticker shock: Passengers must pay $85 every five years to process their background checks.

它离这一目标还差得很远，一个重要原因是价格令人咋舌：乘客每五年必须支付85美元用于办理背景审查。

There is no reason why everyone cannot be welcomed on Mauna Kea to embrace their cultural heritage and to study the stars.

没有理由不让每个人都受到欢迎，来到莫纳克亚山拥抱自己的文化遗产、研究星辰。

But while this may be true, it’s not a good enough reason to condemn gap years.

但尽管这可能是事实，它却不足以成为否定间隔年的理由。

One of the reasons for high-school graduates not taking a gap year is that ____

高中毕业生不选择间隔年的原因之一是____

The crash was a major reason the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided to formally list the bird as threatened.

数量的骤减是美国鱼类及野生动物管理局（USFWS）决定正式将这种鸟列为受威胁物种的一个主要原因。

The major reason for listing the lesser prairie chicken as threatened is ____

将小草原鸡列为受威胁物种的主要原因是____

The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you’ll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you’ll buy.

原因很简单：你在店里待得越久，看到的东西就越多；看到的东西越多，买的就越多。

There are many reasons for this.

造成这种情况的原因有很多。

The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.

费用如此之高的另一个原因是这一行业类似行会的限制性所有权结构。

(46) It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.

(46) 这也是为什么当我们试图用语言描述音乐时，我们所能做的只是表达我们对音乐的感受，而无法把握音乐本身。

reason

理由

This is apparently the reason McDonald’s restricts the availability of its popular McRib — a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.

这显然就是麦当劳限量供应其广受欢迎的麦肋排堡的原因——这一营销手段让这款猪肉三明治成了人们痴迷的对象。

And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

然而，《拉动的力量》等书的作者约翰·黑格尔说，布林约尔松和麦卡菲没有看到这些工作从一开始就如此容易受到技术冲击的原因。

But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged.

但也许最重要的原因是，这个问题一直带有强烈的政治色彩。

That’s one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.

这正是我们创办《弧》这本专注于近未来的新刊物的原因之一。

Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.

戴维森的文章是近来出现的众多文章之一，这些文章都指出：如今失业率居高不下、中产阶级收入不断下降，很大程度上是由于大衰退导致需求大幅下滑，但也是由于全球化和信息技术革命的推进，它们正以前所未有的速度用机器或外国工人取代劳动力。

If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face (one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling), we can take a moment before buying.

如果我们知道自己看到一张笑脸时会对消费品或住房选择反应过度（这正是优秀的销售代表和房地产经纪人总是面带微笑的原因之一），我们就可以在购买前稍作停顿。

“We reason together, challenge, revise, and complete each other's reasoning and each other's conceptions of reason.”

“我们一起推理，相互质疑、修正并完善彼此的推理和对理性的理解。”

There are three reasons for the public-sector unions' thriving.

公共部门工会的兴盛有三个原因。

But for all the reasons there are to celebrate the computer, we must also act with caution.

但尽管有种种理由为计算机喝彩，我们也必须谨慎行事。

I call it a secret war for two reasons.

我称之为一场秘密战争，原因有二。

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium — television — and television is defined by downloading.

这种生产金字塔之所以持续存在，原因之一是在过去半个世纪里，世界上大部分媒体文化都由单一媒介——电视——所定义，而电视的本质就是下载。

explore reasons for the unemployment.

探究失业的原因。

One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

然而，这一任命之所以如此出人意料，原因之一是吉尔伯特相对来说名气不大。

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools. Many students experience both varieties. Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

此类课程难以设计和讲授的原因之一在于，它们与美国顶尖大学的一贯主张相抵触，即博雅教育和职业教育应当分开，由不同的学院讲授。许多学生两种教育都会经历。虽然超过一半的哈佛本科生最终从事法律、医学或商业，但未来的医生和律师在攻读职业资格之前，必须先读一个非专业性的文科学位。

reason

理由

The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those “surprise” disappearances by directors under the age of 70.

离开董事会最可能的原因是年龄，因此研究人员把注意力集中在70岁以下董事的那些“意外”离职上。