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If, like most business people, you spend your life dashing from office to plane, train to home, boardroom to washroom, what you really need to do is stay in more, sit down — and read a book.

如果你像大多数商务人士一样，一辈子都在奔波——从办公室到飞机，从火车到家里，从会议室到洗手间——那么你真正需要做的是多待在家里，坐下来——读一本书。

HAPs could also guide efforts to retrofit homes or modify building regulations.

高温行动计划还可以指导房屋改造或建筑法规的修订工作。

As Roma Agrawal explains in her new delightful book Nuts and Bolts, early 17th-century Virginians would sometimes burn down their homes if they were planning to relocate.

正如罗玛·阿格拉沃尔在她妙趣横生的新书《螺母与螺栓》中所解释的，17世纪早期的弗吉尼亚人在打算搬家时，有时会把自己的房子烧掉。

In Germany, one scheme has paired an old people’s home with a nursery.

在德国，有一个项目把一家养老院和一家托儿所结成了对子。

The shallows provide homes for hundreds of species while storing floodwaters, filtering pollutants from water, and protecting nearby communities from potentially destructive storm surges.

这片浅水区为数百种物种提供了栖息地，同时还能蓄积洪水、过滤水中污染物，并保护附近社区免受可能具有破坏性的风暴潮侵袭。

What intrinsic factors make the West a suitable home for these artifacts but preclude them from being preserved and displayed by their countries of origin?

是什么内在因素让西方成为这些文物的合适归宿，却使它们不能由其原属国保存和展出？

Now, with record-high home prices and historically low inventory, there’s an increased urgency in such regulation, particularly among those who worry that developers will come in and buy up swaths of housing to flip for a fortune on the short-term rental market.

如今，房价创下历史新高，房源库存处于历史低位，此类监管变得更加紧迫，尤其是在那些担心开发商会进场大量收购住房、再投放到短租市场上转手牟取暴利的人看来。

“I think individuals being able to rent out their second home is a good thing.

“我认为个人能够出租自己的第二套住房是件好事。

If it’s their vacation home anyway, and it’s just empty, why can’t you make money off it?” Horn said.

如果那反正是他们的度假屋，而且就那么空着，为什么不能用它赚钱呢？”霍恩说。

Its home prices are under strict control.

其房价受到严格控制。

Net-zero rules set to send cost of new homes and extensions soaring

净零排放新规将使新房和扩建费用飙升

New building regulations aimed at improving energy efficiency are set to increase the price of new homes, as well as those of extensions and loft conversions on existing ones.

旨在提高能效的新建筑法规将推高新房价格，以及现有房屋扩建和阁楼改造的费用。

“When I come home from a hard day’s work, I often feel [tired],” Danaher says, adding, “In a world in which I don’t have to work, I might feel rather different” — perhaps different enough to throw himself [into] a hobby or a passion project with the intensity usually reserved for [professional] matters.

“当我辛苦工作一天回到家时，我常常感到{{18}}，”丹纳赫说，并补充道，“在一个我不必工作的世界里，我的感觉可能会大不相同”——也许不同到足以让他以通常只留给{{20}}事务的那种热情{{19}}一项爱好或一个热衷的项目。

What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.

这项研究没有衡量的是，人们在家时是否仍在工作，无论是家务活还是从办公室带回家的工作。

For women who stay home, they never get to leave the office.

而对于居家的女性来说，她们永远无法离开“办公室”。

You never really get to go home from home.

你永远无法真正从家里“下班回家”。

But if your work is your “passion,” you’ll be more likely to devote yourself to it, even if that means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bed.

但如果工作是你的“激情”所在，你就更可能全身心投入其中，哪怕这意味着回家吃完晚饭后，在孩子上床睡觉很久以后还在工作。

It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home.

可能是你上班的通勤路，进城的路，或者回家的路。

Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful, managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier.

心理健康是创造力的源泉，这种创造力可用于解决问题、化解冲突、美化周围环境、打理家庭生活，或者想出有创意的商业点子或发明，让我们的生活更加便利。

Your home colleagues — your family — have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they’re teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.

你在家里的“同事”——你的家人——付出劳动却没有明确的回报；你得说服他们去做，如果他们是青少年，还得威胁要没收他们所有的电子设备。

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”。

Currently only 20 percent of the UK’s wood requirement is home-grown while it remains the second-largest net importer of timber in the world.

目前英国只有20%的木材需求由本国生产，同时它仍是世界第二大木材净进口国。

While around three quarters of Scottish homes are built from Scottish timber, the use of home-grown wood in England is only around 25 percent.

苏格兰约四分之三的住宅是用苏格兰木材建造的，而英格兰本土木材的使用率只有25%左右。

Just 23 percent of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the UK are currently home-grown, so even with the most extreme measures we could meet only 30 percent of our fresh produce needs.

目前英国消费的水果和蔬菜只有23%是本土种植的，所以即使采取最极端的措施，我们也只能满足30%的新鲜农产品需求。

Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.

也许这就是我们探索星空的原因，仿佛是在回应一种认识我们自己和我们真正祖先家园的原始召唤。

leave their home countries for good.

永久离开祖国

the competition among timber traders at home.

国内木材商之间的竞争。

As an effective Washington operator, Hayden sensed that he could capitalize on the expedition’s stunning visuals. He asked Jackson to print out large copies and distributed them, along with reproductions of Moran’s paintings, to each member of Congress. “The visualization, particularly those photographs, really hit home that this is something that has to be protected,” says Murphy.

作为一名在华盛顿很有手腕的人物，海登意识到他可以利用这次考察所获得的震撼影像。他让杰克逊冲印出大幅照片，并将这些照片连同莫兰画作的复制品一起分发给每一位国会议员。“这些视觉呈现，特别是那些照片，真正让人深刻认识到这是必须加以保护的东西，”墨菲说。

is apt to arouse criticism at home and abroad.

容易引起国内外的批评。

But Mauna Kea is also home to some of the world’s most powerful telescopes.

但莫纳克亚山也是世界上一些最强大的望远镜的所在地。

Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous goals for capitalism and freedom.”

为了阐明她的观点，她接着说：“越来越明显的是，在政府、媒体或企业内部缺乏目标、缺乏道德语言，可能成为资本主义和自由所面临的最危险的目标之一。”

With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it’s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.

由于角色界限日益模糊，加之家庭在为职业女性做出调整方面远远落后于职场，女性在家压力更大也就不足为奇了。