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For example, try, “I can see lots of applications for this new approach” rather than, “This innovation is the only way.”

例如，试着说“我能看到这个新方法有很多用武之地”，而不是“这项创新是唯一的出路”。

It would be absurd to try to track the changing price of sports cars since 1695, but to ask the same question of nails makes perfect sense.

试图追踪自1695年以来跑车价格的变化是荒谬的，但对钉子提出同样的问题却完全合理。

They should try to prevent parental depression.

它们应该设法预防父母抑郁。

Then he tried searching for his name to see if a piece he had worked on had been published.

后来，他试着搜索自己的名字，想看看自己创作的一幅作品是否已经发表。

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。

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The RHS’s decision comes as campaigners try to raise awareness of the problems fake grass causes.

皇家园艺学会作出这一决定之际，正值活动人士努力让人们认识到假草坪带来的问题。

It is trying to encourage people to sign two petitions, one calling for a ban on the sale of plastic grass and another calling for an “ecological damage” tax on such lawns.

它正在努力鼓励人们签署两份请愿书，一份呼吁禁止销售塑料草坪，另一份呼吁对这类草坪征收“生态破坏”税。

All of which creates huge headaches for institutions, such as museums, trying to preserve culturally important objects.

所有这些都给试图保存重要文物的机构（如博物馆）带来了巨大的麻烦。

In New Zealand, a 2016 private members’ Bill tried to permit firms and high-income employees to contract out of the unjustified dismissal regime.

在新西兰，2016年的一项议员私人法案试图允许企业和高收入员工通过合同约定不受不正当解雇制度的约束。

It took place on many different planes: between Napoleon’s French army and the angry inhabitants; between the British, ever keen to exacerbate the emperor’s difficulties, and the marshals sent from Paris to try to keep them in check; between new forces of science and meritocracy and old ones of conservatism and birth.

这场斗争在许多不同层面上展开：拿破仑的法国军队与愤怒的当地居民之间；一心想加剧皇帝困境的英国人与从巴黎派来试图遏制他们的元帅们之间；科学与任人唯贤的新势力和保守主义与门第出身的旧势力之间。

There’s just one thing you should try to keep at least some time for, [in addition to] your writing — and that’s reading.

除了写作之外，只有一件事你应该尽量至少留出一些时间——那就是阅读。

Brignull identifies 12 types of common dark patterns, ranging from misdirection and hidden costs to “roach motel,” where a user experience seems easy and intuitive at the start, but turns difficult when the user tries to get out.

布里格努尔列出了12种常见的暗黑模式，从误导和隐藏费用到“蟑螂旅馆”不等——所谓“蟑螂旅馆”，是指用户体验一开始看起来简单直观，但当用户想要退出时却变得困难重重。

Business and nonprofit leaders should be aware of dark patterns and try to avoid the gray areas they engender.

企业和非营利组织的领导者应该意识到暗黑模式，并尽量避开它们所造成的灰色地带。

Don’t try to go back to what you were doing before your break.

不要试图一下子回到中断前的运动水平。

Although we try our best, sometimes our paintings rarely turn out as originally planned.

尽管我们尽了最大努力，但有时我们的画作很少能按最初的设想完成。

Changes in the light, the limitations of your painting materials, and the lack of experience and technique mean that what you start out trying to achieve may not come to life the way that you expected.

光线的变化、绘画材料的局限以及经验和技巧的不足，都意味着你一开始想要实现的效果可能无法以你预期的方式呈现出来。

are trying to repair relations with the unions.

正试图修复与工会的关系。

are trying to grow new varieties of grains.

正在尝试种植新的谷物品种。

State it overtly, contextualizing your statements so that you’re seen not as a disagreeable subordinate but as a colleague who’s trying to advance a common objective.

要明确地说出来，并把你的话放在具体情境中，这样你就不会被看作一个难相处的下属，而是一个努力推进共同目标的同事。

Everyone should try hard to promote social justice.

每个人都应努力促进社会公正。

“Whether you’re a politician or a parent, it might be helpful to keep in mind that trying to maintain eye contact may backfire if you’re trying to convince someone who has a different set of beliefs than you,” said Minson.

明森说：“无论你是政治家还是父母，记住这一点或许会有帮助：如果你试图说服一个与你信念不同的人，努力保持眼神交流可能会适得其反。”

“Whether you’re a politician or a parent, it might be helpful to keep in mind that trying to maintain eye contact may backfire if you’re trying to convince someone who has a different set of beliefs than you,” said Minson.

明森说：“无论你是政治家还是父母，记住这一点或许会有帮助：如果你试图说服一个与你信念不同的人，努力保持眼神交流可能会适得其反。”

(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。

A more practical goal is to try to be as calm as you can when faced with [trying] situations involving your children.

一个更切实可行的目标是，在面对与孩子有关的恼人情况时，尽量保持冷静。

tried to practice a means of escape.

试图练习一种逃生方法。

If you have a bone to pick with someone in your workplace, you may try to stay tight-lipped around them.

如果你对工作场所的某个人有意见，你可能会在他们身边尽量守口如瓶。

Carnegie would be right if arguments were fights, which is how we often think of them. Like physical fights, verbal fights can leave both sides bloodied. Even when you win, you end up no better off. Your prospects would be almost as dismal if arguments were even just competitions — like, say, tennis games. Pairs of opponents hit the ball back and forth until one winner emerges from all who entered. Everybody else loses. This kind of thinking is why so many people try to avoid arguments, especially about politics and religion.

如果争论就是争斗——我们常常这样看待争论——那么卡耐基就是对的。和肢体冲突一样，口头争斗也会让双方都头破血流。即使你赢了，最终也不会更好。即便争论只是竞赛——比如说网球比赛——你的前景也几乎同样黯淡。对手们两两对阵，来回击球，直到所有参赛者中产生一个胜者。其他人都是输家。正是这种想法让那么多人尽量避免争论，尤其是关于政治和宗教的争论。

(48) Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant’s papers.

(48) 人们已经尝试遏制这种趋势，例如，在评估申请人的论文时，努力把对质量和数量的某种衡量都纳入其中。

Professionals trying to acquire new skills will be able to do so without going into debt.

想要学习新技能的专业人士将能够做到这一点而不必负债。

Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.

科齐亚泰克所在的曼彻斯特技术高中正努力填补这一缺口。

So when someone tries to communicate with you, just be in that communication wholeheartedly.

所以，当有人试图与你交流时，就全心全意地投入到交流中。

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons — both fake and real — past airport security nearly every time they tried.

去年，美国运输安全管理局（TSA）在一次秘密检查中发现，卧底调查人员几乎每次尝试都能把武器——无论是假的还是真的——偷偷带过机场安检。

Another factor may be that more people are trying to overpack their carry-on bags to avoid checked-baggage fees, though the airlines strongly dispute this.

另一个因素可能是，更多的人为了避免托运行李费而把随身行李塞得过满，尽管航空公司对此强烈反驳。

Infants are wired to look at parents’ faces to try to understand their world, and if those faces are blank and unresponsive — as they often are when absorbed in a device — it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.

婴儿天生会通过看父母的脸来试图理解他们的世界，如果这些脸面无表情、毫无反应——父母沉迷于电子设备时往往如此——孩子们就会极度不安。

In it, a mother is asked to interact with her child in a normal way before putting on a blank expression and not giving them any visual social feedback: the child becomes increasingly distressed as she tries to capture her mother’s attention.

实验中，母亲先被要求以正常方式与孩子互动，然后摆出一副面无表情的样子，不给孩子任何视觉上的社交反馈：孩子在试图吸引母亲注意的过程中变得越来越苦恼。

“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。”

At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the copper coils he’s trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors.

在变压器厂的一张工作台前，年轻的杰森·斯滕奎斯特面对他正试图组装的铜线圈和两位来访者的到来，显得有些慌乱。

In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.

在丹麦、美国和其他一些国家，时尚业正努力为模特和时尚形象制定自愿性标准，这些标准更多依靠同行压力来执行。

“Then increase it at a higher rate each year and essentially try to generate additional revenue.”

“然后每年以更高的幅度提价，实质上就是设法创造额外收入。”

The high-schoolers get the same curriculum, but “we try to gear lessons toward things they’re interested in,” said Victoria Friedman, an instructor.

高中生学习同样的课程，但“我们尽量让课程贴合他们感兴趣的东西”，讲师维多利亚·弗里德曼说。

Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.

一些国会议员正试图阻止该计划，至少十几个行业团体、四个州和三个环保团体正在联邦法院对其提出质疑。

Try to slot it in as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading — useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind.

如果试图把它作为待办事项列表中的一项塞进日程，你就只能做到以目标为中心的阅读——有时有用，但并不是最令人满足的那种。

Having said all of the above, it’s important to add that we shouldn’t try too hard to be happy.

说了这么多，还有一点很重要需要补充：我们不应该太过努力地追求快乐。

Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar.

显然，你会借助自己对英语语法的隐性知识，努力去理解——也就是识别单个词语的意义并弄清它们之间的关系。

Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfils the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.

我们是在研读那篇文本，并试图以满足某门课程要求的方式作出回应吗？是单纯为了消遣而阅读吗？还是为了获取信息而略读？在火车上或床上阅读的方式很可能与在研讨室里阅读大不相同。

In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.

实际上，你会努力重构任何一个句子、意象或指涉可能具有的意义或效果：这些可能正是作者所意图的。

If you are surrounded by problems and cannot stop thinking about the past, try to focus on the present moment.

如果你被问题包围，无法停止回想过去，那就试着专注于当下。

Try to keep in mind that almost everyone respects and wants to help you if you are trying to make a good change in your life, especially your dearest and nearest people.

请记住，如果你正努力让生活发生好的改变，几乎每个人都会尊重你并愿意帮助你，尤其是你最亲近的人。

Try to keep in mind that almost everyone respects and wants to help you if you are trying to make a good change in your life, especially your dearest and nearest people.

请记住，如果你正努力让生活发生好的改变，几乎每个人都会尊重你并愿意帮助你，尤其是你最亲近的人。

If you have no friends or relatives, try to participate in several online communities, full of people who are always willing to share advice and encouragement.

如果你没有朋友或亲人，可以试着加入一些网络社区，那里有很多总是乐于分享建议、给予鼓励的人。

On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

乍一听，这是一位关心社会的财政大臣，力图让人们的生活变得更好，还对一个明显过于纵容的制度进行了“改革”——这个制度对新近失业者找工作要求的努力太少，还在补贴懒惰。

(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。

If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on advertising, it has chosen an indirect method: there is no guarantee that DNT by default will become the norm.

如果微软是想打击几乎完全依赖广告的谷歌，那么它选择的是一种迂回的方式：无法保证默认开启DNT会成为常态。

When I think of a sad memory, I do what everybody does — try to put it to one side.

当我想起一段悲伤的回忆时，我会像其他人一样——尽量把它放到一边。

No one tries harder than the jobless to find silver linings in this national economic disaster.

没有人比失业者更努力地在这场全国性经济灾难中寻找一线希望。

By saying “to find silver linings” (Para.2) the author suggests that the jobless try to ____

作者说“寻找一线希望”（第2段），意在表明失业者努力____

These are the kind of workers that countries like Britain, Canada and Australia try to attract by using immigration rules that privilege college graduates.

这些正是英国、加拿大和澳大利亚等国家试图通过向大学毕业生倾斜的移民规定来吸引的人才。

If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk.

一旦发生这种情况，热情的消费者会设法说服他人抵制产品，从而使目标公司的声誉面临风险。