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The likely explanation is that the withdrawal was rushed, and they didn’t want the local Caledonians getting their hands on 10 tons of weapon-grade iron.

可能的解释是，撤退十分仓促，而他们不想让当地的喀里多尼亚人得到这10吨可用于制造武器的铁。

Why are people who live within a day’s drive of London entitled to go and see the Elgin Marbles whenever they want, but the people of Athens aren’t?

为什么住在距伦敦一天车程以内的人有权随时去看埃尔金大理石雕，而雅典人却没有？

There are groups aimed at new parents, at those who want to [try] a new sport for the first time, or networking events for those in the same profession to meet up and [share] ideas.

有面向新手父母的团体，有面向想第一次{{12}}一项新运动的人的团体，还有供同行聚会、{{13}}想法的交流活动。

Horn said similar registration requirements could benefit struggling cities and towns, but “if we want to make a change in the housing market, the main one is we have to build a lot more.”

霍恩说，类似的登记要求可能会让处境艰难的城镇受益，但“如果我们想改变住房市场，最主要的是我们必须建造更多的房子。”

That means prioritising our activities so that we spend most time on the things we really want to do.

这意味着要给我们的活动排好优先次序，以便把大部分时间花在我们真正想做的事情上。

Ferraro wanted to see if Indonesia’s poverty-alleviation program was affecting deforestation.

费拉罗想看看印度尼西亚的扶贫计划是否正在影响森林砍伐。

You want to predict if something needs attention now and point to where it’s useful for employees to go to.

你需要预测某样东西现在是否需要关注，并指明员工应该去哪里处理才有用。

The US Federal Trade Commission says it wants to find the answer to that question.

美国联邦贸易委员会表示，它想找到这个问题的答案。

Maybe you haven’t finished thinking the problem through, or you want to get a clearer sense of what the group thinks.

也许你还没把问题想透，或者你想更清楚地了解团队的想法。

The researchers also argued that when we shy away from casual interactions with strangers, it is often due to a misplaced anxiety that they might not want to talk to us.

研究人员还认为，当我们回避与陌生人随意交流时，往往是出于一种不必要的担心，即担心他们可能不想和我们说话。

wanted to display their intelligence.

想要展示自己的智力。

Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.

每个人都想知道，即将入驻那些空置办公隔间的人会与他们的前辈有何不同。

“Millennials wanted more flexibility in their lives,” notes Tanya Michelsen, Associate Director of YouthSight, a UK-based brand manager that conducts regular 60-day surveys of British youth, in findings that might just as well apply to American youth.

“千禧一代希望生活更具灵活性，”YouthSight的副总监塔尼娅·米歇尔森指出。YouthSight是一家总部位于英国的品牌管理公司，定期对英国青年进行为期60天的调查，其调查结果可能同样适用于美国青年。

This advice is more relevant now than ever before, even as more parents want to embrace the ideas of their children, despite the current housing crunch.

尽管当前住房紧张，越来越多的父母仍希望采纳孩子的想法，因此这一建议在今天比以往任何时候都更有意义。

We want more for our kids, and rightfully so.

我们希望孩子们得到更多，这无可厚非。

What political journalist, what party whip, would not want to know the makeup of the WhatsApp groups in which Theresa May’s enemies are currently plotting?

哪个政治记者、哪个党鞭会不想知道特蕾莎·梅的政敌们目前正在密谋的那些WhatsApp群组的成员构成呢？

Suppose you are in a room with someone you don’t know and something within you says “I want to talk with this person” — this is something that mostly happens with all of us.

假设你和一个不认识的人待在一个房间里，你的内心有个声音在说“我想和这个人聊聊”——这是我们大多数人都会遇到的情况。

You wanted to say something — the first word — but it just won’t come out, it feels like it is stuck somewhere.

你想说点什么——说出第一个词——但它就是说不出口，感觉像是卡在了什么地方。

It’s a problem all of us face; you have limited time with the person that you want to talk with and you want to make this talk memorable.

这是我们所有人都会面临的问题：你和想要交谈的人相处的时间有限，而你又想让这次交谈令人难忘。

It’s a problem all of us face; you have limited time with the person that you want to talk with and you want to make this talk memorable.

这是我们所有人都会面临的问题：你和想要交谈的人相处的时间有限，而你又想让这次交谈令人难忘。

So, remember the little details of the people you met or you talked with; perhaps the places they have been to, the places they want to go, the things they like, the things they hate — whatever you talk about.

所以，要记住你见过或交谈过的人的小细节；也许是他们去过的地方、他们想去的地方、他们喜欢的东西、他们讨厌的东西——无论你们谈论的是什么。

The Olympic bidders, by contrast, wanted to get more people doing sport and to produce more elite athletes.

相比之下，奥运会申办者既想让更多人参与运动，又想培养出更多精英运动员。

Do we want instead to redirect those funds to concentrate on lower-hazard parts of the landscape?”

我们是否想把这些资金转而集中用于风险较低的地区？”

They really want to live their lives,” she says.

他们真的想过自己的生活，”她说。

For someone moving from finance to advertising, maybe they want to look more “SoHo.”

对于从金融业转行到广告业的人来说，他们也许想看起来更“苏荷范儿”。

The researchers wanted to know if the [optimism] and inclination for risk-taking that come with happiness would [change] the way companies invested.

研究人员想知道，伴随快乐而来的{{4}}和冒险倾向是否会{{5}}公司的投资方式。

The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want — the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that — the better.

他们越早了解计算机如何思考、如何哄着机器产出他们想要的东西——越早认识到自己有能力做到这一点——就越好。

This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.”

这种影响不仅会通过《科学》杂志本身的出版物体现，而且有望通过更多可能效仿《科学》做法的出版机构体现出来。”

But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit.”

但“是我们，是人类，是我们人民创造了我们想要的社会，而不是利润。”

There are lots and lots of CEOs in very different companies, but most think of themselves as coaches and this is their team and they want to win.”

形形色色的公司里有许许多多的首席执行官，但大多数都把自己看作教练，把公司看作自己的团队，并且想要获胜。”

Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs.

许多从事兼职工作的人其实想要全职工作。

The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.

调查接着会问，他们那一周工作不足35小时，是因为他们想做非全职工作，还是因为别无选择。

I want to share these old truths I’ve learned along the way.

我想分享一路走来学到的这些古老真理。

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。

Ask anyone newly unemployed what they want and the answer is always: a job.

问问任何一个刚失业的人想要什么，答案总是：一份工作。

These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.

这些捐助者说，他们已经在自己选择的领域取得了成功，想用自己的财富让人们关注那些在科学上取得成功的人。

Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research.

有些人想引起轰动，有些人想吸引人们投身科学，或者更好地奖励那些以研究为事业的人。

The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money.

当然，诺贝尔奖本身也是由一位非常富有的人设立的，他决定了要如何使用自己的钱。

In December 2010 America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed adding a “do not track” (DNT) option to internet browsers, so that users could tell advertisers that they did not want to be followed.

2010年12月，美国联邦贸易委员会（FTC）提议在网络浏览器中增加“禁止追踪”（DNT）选项，以便用户可以告诉广告商他们不希望被追踪。

But if Congress wanted to prevent states from using their own resources to check immigration status, it could.

但如果国会想阻止各州利用自身资源核查移民身份，它本可以这样做。

The Administration was in essence asserting that because it didn’t want to carry out Congress’s immigration wishes, no state should be allowed to do so either.

政府实质上是在宣称，因为它自己不想执行国会的移民意愿，所以也不应允许任何州这样做。

According to the author, today’s birds of passage want ____

作者认为，当今的“候鸟”想要____

When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.

当戈特曼博士真正想评估一对夫妇能否继续在一起时，他会邀请他们到他的海岛休养所进行时间长得多的评估：是两天，而不是两秒钟。

John Donahue at Harvard's Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

哈佛大学肯尼迪学院的约翰·多纳休指出，西方公务员体系的文化规范适合那些安于现状的人，却不利于有能力的高成就者。

District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling; teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want.

学区管理者说，家庭作业仍将是学校教育的一部分；老师想布置多少就可以布置多少。

Today, we want empathy, not inspiration.

如今，我们想要的是共情，而不是激励。

McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run.

麦吉说，在没有找好下家的情况下离职，使他有时间思考自己想经营一家什么样的公司。

Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade ago, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

十年前，埃伦·马拉姆辞去纯果乐公司总裁一职，称她想当首席执行官。

It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

很难想象会有很多人蠢到仅仅因为瑞茜和安吉丽娜让养孩子看起来如此光鲜迷人就想要孩子：大多数成年人都明白，生孩子可不像换个发型那么简单。

Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students require fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

同样不足为奇的是，最终只有大约一半的人得到了他们当初读研究生时所追求的教授职位。职位实在太少了。部分原因是大学不断培养出越来越多的博士。但想学习人文学科的学生却越来越少：英语系在1970—1971学年授予的学士学位比20年后还要多。学生越少，所需的教师也就越少。因此，在花了十年时间撰写论文之后，许多人文学科的学生离开了这一行，去做他们没有受过训练的工作。

Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded: “We do not attract what we want, but what we are.”

由于与欲望不一致的想法的存在会损害欲望和意志，艾伦得出结论：“我们吸引来的不是我们想要的东西，而是与我们本身相符的东西。”

Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.

想要在困难时期留住外部董事的公司，可能不得不制定激励措施。

newspapers wanted to reduce costs.

报纸想要降低成本。

A “southern” camp headed by French wants something different: “European economic government” within an inner core of euro-zone members.

以法国为首的“南方”阵营则想要别的东西：在欧元区核心成员国内部建立“欧洲经济政府”。

But senior medical figures want to stop fast-food outlets opening near schools, restrict advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar, and limit sponsorship of sports events by fast-food producers such as McDonald's.

但资深医学人士希望禁止在学校附近开设快餐店，限制高脂、高盐或高糖产品的广告，并限制麦当劳等快餐生产商赞助体育赛事。

Labour likewise wants to discontinue local planning where councils oppose development.

工党同样希望在地方议会反对开发的地方中止地方规划。

The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.

不过，最高法院或许会希望给警方留有余地，让他们可以援引某些有权享有更多自由的情形。

Justices wanted to strengthen its coordination with Congress.

大法官们希望加强与国会的协调。

His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English. However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess. But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like. At Harvard, Mr. Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read” — they form a sort of social glue.

他关注的主要是人文学科：文学、语言、哲学等。这些学科正在变得不受欢迎：如今22%的美国大学毕业生主修商科，而主修历史的只有2%，主修英语的只有4%。然而，许多美国一流大学希望本科生打好基础，掌握每一个受过教育的人都应具备的基本思想经典。但大多数大学难以就“通识教育”应该是什么样子达成一致。梅南先生指出，在哈佛，“名著之所以被阅读，是因为它们一直被人阅读”——它们形成了一种社会黏合剂。

Lansley has alarmed health campaigners by suggesting he wants industry rather than government to take the lead.

兰斯利暗示他希望由产业界而非政府来牵头，这令健康运动人士感到担忧。