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Today we fret about the isolating culture of smartphone-staring and selfie-vanity, but already in 1939 there was that lady regretting how, when all her street got wirelesses, it lost the neighbourly habit of “talking on the brush handle”.
如今我们为盯着智能手机、沉迷自拍虚荣所造成的孤立文化而烦恼，但早在1939年，就有那位女士惋惜，当她所在的整条街都装上了无线电后，邻里间“拄着扫帚柄聊天”的习惯就消失了。
Science education today revolves around the idea of scientific literacy — the base-level knowledge about science that nonscientists require to effectively get on in the world.
当今的科学教育围绕着“科学素养”这一理念展开——即非科学工作者在世界上有效立足所需的基础科学知识。
(47) A return to that version of scientific literacy, which focused more on teaching what science is and how it works and less on memorizing scientific facts, seems like something society today desperately needs.
(47) 回归那种版本的科学素养——更注重教授科学是什么以及科学如何运作，而较少注重记忆科学事实——似乎正是当今社会迫切需要的。
“Insects that today are a minor problem may become a major problem if they can produce three or four generations in a year,” says forest ecologist John Stanturf.
森林生态学家约翰·斯坦图夫说：“如今只是小问题的昆虫，如果一年能繁殖三四代，就可能变成大问题。”
Librarians’ selfless devotion can act against us when users point to universality of access by holding up a cellphone and saying, “it’s all in here” as evidence that libraries are less vital for researchers today.
当用户举起手机说“一切都在这里面”，以这种获取的普遍性作为证据，证明图书馆如今对研究人员不那么重要时，图书馆员的无私奉献反而可能对我们不利。
The amounts have risen from 10% or less in the 1950s to 15% around the year 2000 to 20% or higher today.
小费比例已从1950年代的10%或更低，升至2000年前后的15%，再到如今的20%或更高。
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It is [believed] that around 12,000 to 15,000 caravanserais were built along the Silk Road, [although] only about 3,000 are known to remain today, many of which are in [ruins].
据信丝绸之路沿线曾修建约12,000至15,000座商队客栈，尽管如今已知仅存约3,000座，而且其中许多已成废墟。
Here’s a common scenario that any number of entrepreneurs face today: you’re the CEO of a small business, and though you’re making a nice [profit], you need to find a way to take it to the next level.
这是当今许多创业者都会面临的一个常见情形：你是一家小企业的首席执行官，尽管你赚到了可观的{{1}}，但你需要找到办法让企业更上一层楼。
We now live in an age of plastic, she says, “and what we decide to collect today, what we decide to preserve...will have a strong impact on how in the future we’ll be seen.”
她说，我们现在生活在一个塑料时代，“我们今天决定收藏什么、决定保存什么……将对未来人们如何看待我们产生重大影响。”
has an impact on today’s cultural life.
对当今的文化生活有影响
Today, 28 percent of graduates in the UK are in non-graduate roles, a percentage which is double the average among OECD countries.
如今，英国28%的大学毕业生从事的是无需大学学历的工作，这一比例是经合组织国家平均水平的两倍。
And today, even writers who are fairly [well-known] often have to do other work to [supplement] their writing income.
而如今，即使是相当知名的作家也常常不得不做其他工作来补贴写作收入。
But it can be done: Glasgow’s year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of a complex series of factors that have turned the city into the powerhouse of art, music and theatre that it remains today.
但这是可以做到的：格拉斯哥作为“欧洲文化之都”的那一年，无疑可以被看作是一系列复杂因素之一，正是这些因素使这座城市成为了至今仍是艺术、音乐和戏剧重镇的地方。
Today, we live in a world where GPS systems, digital maps, and other navigation apps are all available on our smart phones.
如今，我们生活在这样一个世界里：GPS系统、数字地图和其他导航应用都能在智能手机上使用。
Today the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) raises fundamental questions: “What is intelligence, identity, or consciousness?
如今，人工智能（AI）的快速发展引出了一些根本性问题：“什么是智能、身份或意识？
AI “vision” today is not nearly as sophisticated as that of humans.
如今人工智能的“视觉”远不如人类的视觉精密。
involves some concerns raised by AI today.
涉及如今人工智能引发的一些担忧。
We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.
今天，单是当时创作的剧本数量，以及同时为这座拥有二十万居民的伦敦城写作的剧作家人数，就令我们惊叹不已。
Sadly, all is not well with astronomy in Hawaii today.
遗憾的是，如今夏威夷的天文学并非一切顺利。
Hawaiian culture is not a relic of the past; it is a living culture undergoing a renaissance today.
夏威夷文化不是过去的遗迹；它是一种鲜活的文化，如今正在经历复兴。
The same curiosity to find what lies beyond the horizon that first brought early Polynesians to Hawaii’s shores inspires astronomers today to explore the heavens.
当初把早期波利尼西亚人带到夏威夷海岸的那种探寻地平线以外有什么的好奇心，同样激励着今天的天文学家去探索太空。
The runaway success of The Pickwick Papers, as it is generally known today, secured Dickens’s fame.
《匹克威克外传》（今天人们通常这样称呼它）的巨大成功奠定了狄更斯的名声。
Today, the [virtue] of work may be a bit overblown.
如今，工作的{{15}}也许有点被夸大了。
Today, widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year.
如今，要求立即上大学的普遍社会压力，再加上在这个快速变化的世界里日益提高的期望，常常使学生完全忽略了间隔年的可能性。
In effect, fewer federal funds today are going towards the agency’s other work — such as forest conservation, watershed and cultural resources management, and infrastructure upkeep — that affect the lives of all Americans.
实际上，如今投入该机构其他工作的联邦资金减少了——比如森林保护、流域与文化资源管理以及基础设施维护——而这些工作影响着所有美国人的生活。
Such a view would require a corresponding shift in the way US society today views fire, researchers say.
研究人员说，这种观点需要当今美国社会看待火灾的方式发生相应的转变。
“It is really important to understand and try and tease out what is the human connection with fire today.”
“理解并设法理清当今人类与火之间的联系，真的非常重要。”
the political life in today’s Britain.
当今英国的政治生活。
The difference between today’s workplace and the “dress for success” era is that the range of options is so much broader.
如今的职场与“着装成就成功”的时代相比，区别在于可选择的范围要广泛得多。
But just some 22,000 birds remain today, occupying about 16% of the species’ historic range.
但如今只剩下约2.2万只，占据着该物种历史分布范围的约16%。
Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.
年轻人和老年人在一个关键点上看法一致：两个群体中的绝大多数人都表示，他们认为如今的年轻人比前几代人更难开启人生。
While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those “just getting started in life” face a tougher climb than earlier generations in reaching such signpost achievements as securing a good-paying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.
尽管年轻人对如今刚起步者的前景比长辈们稍微乐观一些，但两个群体中的大多数人都认为，那些“刚刚开启人生”的人在实现诸如获得一份高薪工作、成家、管理债务和找到负担得起的住房等标志性成就方面，要比前几代人面临更艰难的攀登。
Pete Schneider considers the climb tougher today.
皮特·施耐德认为如今的攀登更艰难。
housing loans today are easy to obtain.
如今住房贷款很容易获得。
Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history — and sometimes the way they behave today — embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities.
尽管他们自称是民族团结的象征，但他们的历史本身——有时还有他们如今的行为方式——却体现着过时且站不住脚的特权和不平等。
In today’s world, it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organisations that they run.
在当今世界，高薪的高管们不对自己所管理的机构中发生的事情负责，已经成为常态。
The “mommy wars” of the 1990s are still going on today, prompting arguments about why women still can’t have it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, whose title has become a buzzword in its own right.
20世纪90年代的“妈妈战争”至今仍在继续，引发了关于女性为何仍不能兼得一切的争论，也催生了谢丽尔·桑德伯格的《向前一步》这类书，其书名本身就已成为流行语。
Today many people find it difficult to trust their own opinion and seek balance by gaining objectivity from external sources.
如今，许多人觉得很难相信自己的看法，而是通过从外部获取客观意见来寻求平衡。
Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas — such as free markets and self-reliance — as falling outside the boundaries of routine, and sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation.
如今，教授们习惯性地把进步主义的历史解读和进步主义的公共政策当作正当的研究对象，而把保守主义或古典自由主义的思想——如自由市场和自力更生——描绘成不属于常规的、有时甚至是不属于正当的学术研究范围。
To find their sites, archaeologists today rely heavily on systematic survey methods and a variety of high-technology tools and techniques.
为了找到遗址，如今的考古学家在很大程度上依赖系统的勘测方法以及各种高科技工具和技术。
Today we have a(n) [tendency] to label obesity as a disgrace.
如今我们有一种把肥胖视为耻辱的{{14}}。
The potential evolution of today’s technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it’s perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.
当今技术可能的演变及其社会影响复杂得令人眼花缭乱，也许最好留给科幻作家和未来学家去探索我们所能设想的种种可能。
Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.
如今，社会科学主要关注学科内部问题和内部学术争论，而不是具有外部影响的话题。
In an essay entitled “Making It in America”, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog.
在一篇题为《在美国成功》的文章中，作者亚当·戴维森讲了一个来自产棉区的笑话，说明现代纺织厂的自动化程度究竟有多高：如今一家普通的纺织厂只有两名雇员，“一个人和一条狗。
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。
But, today, average is officially over.
但如今，“一般”的时代已正式终结。
Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants.
如今，我们对待移民要僵化得多。
Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes, including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
超越文化战争中非对即错的逻辑，意味着开辟中间地带，并认识到如今的移民管理需要多种途径和多种结果，其中包括一些在现行体制下难以合法实现的结果。
The author suggests that the birds of passage today should be treated ____
作者建议，对待当今的“候鸟”应该____
discoveries today inspire future research.
今天的发现会启发未来的研究。
If the trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa were alive today, he would probably represent civil servants.
如果工会领袖吉米·霍法今天还活着，他很可能会代表公务员。
Today, we want empathy, not inspiration.
如今，我们想要的是共情，而不是激励。
These recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today's live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener's choosing.
这些录音价格低廉，随处可得，而且其艺术水准往往远高于当今的现场演出；此外，听众可以在自己选择的时间和地点“消费”它们。
While traditional “paid” media — such as television commercials and print advertisements — still play a major role, companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media.
虽然传统的“付费”媒体——如电视广告和平面广告——仍然发挥着重要作用，但如今的公司可以利用许多其他形式的媒体。
Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood — materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.
和其他现代建筑师一样，他采用金属、玻璃和层压木材——这些材料我们今天习以为常，但在20世纪40年代却象征着未来。
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Today’s tip requests are often not connected to the salary and service norms that used to determine when and how people tip.
如今的小费要求往往与过去决定人们何时、如何付小费的薪资和服务规范无关。
Compared with tips in the past, today’s tips ____
与过去的小费相比，如今的小费____
But exposure times were much quicker by the 1880s, and the introduction of the Box Brownie and other portable cameras meant that, though slow by today’s digital standards, the exposure was almost instantaneous.
但到了19世纪80年代，曝光时间已经快多了，而布朗尼盒式相机和其他便携式相机的问世意味着，尽管按今天的数码标准来看仍然很慢，但曝光几乎是瞬间完成的。
Today’s CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many more skills than simply being able to “run the company.”
如今的首席执行官，至少就美国大公司而言，必须具备的技能远不止于能够“经营公司”。
Compared with their predecessors, today’s CEOs are required to ____
与前任相比，如今的首席执行官被要求____
CEOs’ Challenges of Today
当今首席执行官面临的挑战
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Today's farm laborers, while still predominantly born in Mexico, are more likely to be settled rather than migrating and more likely to be married than single.
如今的农场劳工虽然仍以墨西哥出生者为主，但他们更可能是定居者而非流动者，而且已婚的可能性高于单身。
It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that progress in today’s astronomy ____
从第5段可以推断出，当今天文学的进步____
Today is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again [warning] that technology is replacing human workers.
今天也不例外，学者、作家和社会活动人士再次{{1}}，技术正在取代人类劳动者。
[Indeed], today’s unemployed don’t seem to be having a great time.
{{6}}，如今的失业者似乎过得并不好。
This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts.
这使得如今法学院毕业生在本科债务之外平均还要背负10万美元的债务。
Yet this enormous resource is not contributing enough to today’s global challenges, including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.
然而，这一庞大的资源并没有为应对当今的全球性挑战做出足够的贡献，这些挑战包括气候变化、安全、可持续发展和健康。
Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.
抱怨资金不足的社会科学家在当今的经济环境下不应期望得到更多。
Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aides and physicists are among today’s birds of passage.
农作物采摘工、小提琴手、建筑工人、企业家、工程师、家庭护工和物理学家都属于当今的“候鸟”。
According to the author, today’s birds of passage want ____
作者认为，当今的“候鸟”想要____
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He has [compared] it with plumbing, pointing out that a plumber doesn’t wake up and say that he can’t work with pipes today.
他把写作比作水管工的活儿，指出水管工不会一觉醒来就说自己今天不能修水管。
The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today.
《科学》杂志主编玛西娅·麦克纳特今天宣布，该杂志将在同行评审流程中增加一轮统计审查。
But a comparative study of linguistic traits published online today supplies a reality check.
但今天在线发表的一项关于语言特征的比较研究提供了一次现实检验。
Leading doctors today weigh in on the debate over the government's role in promoting public health by demanding that ministers impose “fat taxes” on unhealthy food and introduce cigarette-style warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet.
今天，一些顶尖医生加入了关于政府在促进公众健康中应扮演何种角色的辩论，他们要求部长们对不健康食品征收“脂肪税”，并像对香烟那样向儿童发出警示，告诫他们不良饮食的危害。