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I loved the man from the Thirties research who found that wireless suddenly offered “a lot of variety...things I thought I’d never be interested in...ice hockey perhaps”.

我很喜欢20世纪30年代那项调查中的一位男士，他发现无线电突然提供了“大量多样的内容……一些我以为自己永远不会感兴趣的东西……比如冰球”。

“If you don’t look at the soil at the start, you can spend a lot of money and time putting in species that aren’t going to survive there.”

“如果一开始不考察土壤，你可能会花费大量金钱和时间去种植那些在那里无法存活的物种。”

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”。

But it’s also a lot more personal, Ortiz says, arguing that because art is so closely linked to a person, it could raise data protection and privacy problems.

但奥尔蒂斯说，这还涉及更多个人层面的问题。她认为，由于艺术与个人联系如此紧密，这可能引发数据保护和隐私问题。

(48) One possibility was that they merely used their eyes and tried out the plants they found, but that would probably result in a lot of wasted time and energy, not least because their eyesight is actually not very good.

（48）一种可能是，它们仅仅靠眼睛观察，并尝试所发现的植物，但这很可能会浪费大量时间和精力，尤其是因为它们的视力其实并不好。

Some of us feel energised by spending lots of time with others, [whereas] some of us may feel drained, even if it’s doing something we enjoy.

我们中有些人和别人待在一起很长时间会觉得精力充沛，{{1}}有些人则可能感到筋疲力尽，即便做的是自己喜欢的事。

But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.

但我们现在已经掌握了足够的知识，能够降低许多曾威胁早期人类生存的风险，并改善后人的命运。

Readers of Happy Money are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfillment, not hunger.

《快乐的金钱》的读者显然是优越的一群人，他们焦虑的是满足感，而不是温饱。