ask简单

In return for all of this, you’ll be asked for precisely nothing.

作为这一切的回报，你不需要付出任何东西。

There will be no charge and you will never be asked to justify or explain yourself; you will simply be welcomed in, offered help if you need it, and left alone if you do not.

不收任何费用，也永远不会要求你为自己说明或解释什么；你只会被欢迎进门，需要时得到帮助，不需要时则无人打扰。

They were split into target and control groups and asked to write, for example, a message in a bottle as Ferdinand following the shipwreck in The Tempest.

他们被分为实验组和对照组，并被要求写作，例如以《暴风雨》中船只失事后的费迪南德的身份写一封漂流瓶信。

There are many understandable reasons why you might find it difficult to ask for help when you need it.

你在需要帮助时可能难以开口求助，这背后有许多可以理解的原因。

Psychologists have been interested in this [question] for decades, not least because people’s widespread [reluctance] to ask for help has led to some high-profile failures.

几十年来，心理学家一直对这个{{1}}很感兴趣，尤其是因为人们普遍{{2}}求助，已经导致了一些备受瞩目的失败。

Asking for help takes [courage].

求助需要{{3}}。

But inventions shape all of us and it is worth noticing when techno-social habits do change, and asking whether to control them a bit or shield the youngest.

但发明塑造着我们所有人，当技术带来的社会习惯确实发生变化时，值得我们留意，并思考是否要对其稍加控制，或者保护好年龄最小的孩子们。

asking

询问

Ask people about public libraries and a certain image springs to mind: dusty, old-fashioned, the sort of place you enjoyed as a child but, rather like a British seaside town, would you go there now?

问起公共图书馆，人们脑海中会浮现出某种印象：布满灰尘、过时老旧，是你小时候喜欢去的那种地方——但就像英国的海滨小镇一样，你现在还会去那里吗？

We often hear people ask why we solicit donations at our entry points, especially when the city’s largest festivals like the Chicago Jazz Festival do not request donations.

我们经常听到有人问，为什么我们要在入口处募捐，尤其是像芝加哥爵士音乐节这样的城市大型节庆都不要求捐款。

“But if you ask a farmer in Brazil if he or she is concerned about climate change, they would say, ‘No, I am concerned about water,’ ” he says.

“但如果你问巴西的农民是否担心气候变化，他们会说：‘不，我担心的是水。’”他说。

Reform wants to ask how power and resources should be distributed in our health system.

改革智库想探讨的是，权力和资源应如何在我们的卫生体系中分配。

Further arrangements — and there may be many — between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinised to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned.

NHS与DeepMind之间今后的安排——可能会有很多——将受到仔细审查，以确保已征得患者所有必要的许可，并清除所有不必要的数据。

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

电视对任何人提出的最难的任务，就是打开之后再把它关掉。