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This is a reaction to Hollywood’s decline, which is reaching a critical point for the industry and Southern California.

这是对好莱坞衰落的一种反应，对整个行业和南加州而言，这种衰落正在逼近临界点。

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。

Despite the turnout, gate donations reached their lowest point in our history.

尽管人气很旺，入口捐款却跌至我们历史上的最低点。

As demand for healthcare continues to grow, pressures on the workforce — which is already near breaking point — will only become more acute.

随着医疗需求持续增长，医护队伍——已经接近崩溃边缘——所承受的压力只会更加严峻。

Often appearing as trodden dirt tracks through otherwise neat green spaces, these routes of collective disobedience cut corners, bisect lawns and cross hills, representing the natural capability of people (and animals) to go from point A to point B most effectively.

这些集体“违规”的路线常常表现为穿过原本整洁的绿地、被踩出来的土路，它们抄近道、横穿草坪、翻越山丘，体现了人（和动物）以最高效的方式从A点到达B点的天然能力。

Often appearing as trodden dirt tracks through otherwise neat green spaces, these routes of collective disobedience cut corners, bisect lawns and cross hills, representing the natural capability of people (and animals) to go from point A to point B most effectively.

这些集体“违规”的路线常常表现为穿过原本整洁的绿地、被踩出来的土路，它们抄近道、横穿草坪、翻越山丘，体现了人（和动物）以最高效的方式从A点到达B点的天然能力。

So, instead of saying, “Martha, our current slogan is confusing and should be updated,” you could try, “Martha raises a great point that our current slogan has a long history for our stakeholders, but I wonder if we might be able to brainstorm a tagline that could build on that — and be clearer for new customers.”

所以，与其说“玛莎，我们现在的口号令人困惑，应该更新了”，你不妨试着说：“玛莎提出了很好的一点，我们现在的口号对利益相关者来说有着悠久的历史，但我想知道我们能否集思广益，在此基础上想出一句标语——并且让新客户更容易理解。”

By looking at engineering issues from a marketing point of view, it became clear that the [lack] of upgrades wasn’t due to a quality issue.

从营销的角度审视工程问题后，人们清楚地看到，升级用户的{{11}}并非由质量问题造成。

In the UK, it has become a big talking point recently too, for a rather particular reason: Brexit.

在英国，它最近也成了一个热门话题，原因相当特殊：脱欧。

presents its main points with conflicting views on them.

介绍了其要点以及对这些要点的不同看法。

But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all — and the subtle devaluing of anything less — misses an important point: That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.

但是，一味推动人人都获得学士学位——以及对低于这一学历的一切的隐性贬低——忽略了重要的一点：这并不是美国经济唯一需要的东西。

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。”

Grade inflation — the gradual increase in average GPAs (grade-point averages) over the past few decades — is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

分数膨胀——过去几十年来平均GPA（平均绩点）的逐步上升——常被认为是高等教育消费时代的产物，在这个时代，学生被当作需要取悦的顾客。

The scores were [then] used in conjunction with an applicant’s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is [marked] out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.

随后，这些分数会与申请者在研究生管理科入学考试（GMAT，一种满分为800分的标准化考试）中的成绩结合起来，用以决定是否录取该申请者。

Dr. Simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one [before] that, then the score for the next applicant would [drop] by an average of 0.075 points.

西蒙松博士发现，在一天的一系列面试者中，如果前一位候选人的分数比再前一位高出0.75分或更多，那么下一位申请者的分数平均会下降0.075分。

Dr. Simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one [before] that, then the score for the next applicant would [drop] by an average of 0.075 points.

西蒙松博士发现，在一天的一系列面试者中，如果前一位候选人的分数比再前一位高出0.75分或更多，那么下一位申请者的分数平均会下降0.075分。

This might sound small, but to [undo] the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been [necessary].

这听起来可能不多，但要抵消这种下降的影响，候选人需要比原本所需的GMAT成绩多考30分。

Librarians’ selfless devotion can act against us when users point to universality of access by holding up a cellphone and saying, “it’s all in here” as evidence that libraries are less vital for researchers today.

当用户举起手机说“一切都在这里面”，以这种获取的普遍性作为证据，证明图书馆如今对研究人员不那么重要时，图书馆员的无私奉献反而可能对我们不利。

pointing at

指向

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。

point

指向

points

（point out）指出

As the latest crop of students pen their undergraduate application form and weigh up their options, it may be worth considering just how the point, purpose and value of a degree has changed and what Generation Z need to consider as they start the third stage of their educational journey.

在新一批学生填写本科申请表、权衡各种选择之际，或许值得思考一下：学位的意义、目的和价值究竟发生了怎样的变化，以及Z世代在开启教育旅程的第三阶段时需要考虑些什么。

The point of a style upgrade isn’t to become more vain or to spend more time fussing over what to wear.

提升风格的目的不是变得更虚荣，也不是花更多时间纠结穿什么。

Madrid’s back and forth on clean air is a pointed reminder of the limits to the patchwork, city-by-city approach that characterises efforts on air pollution across Europe, Britain very much included.

马德里在清洁空气问题上的反复，尖锐地提醒人们：整个欧洲（英国也绝不例外）治理空气污染所特有的那种拼凑式、各城市各自为政的做法存在局限。

This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

这是工业规模的窃听，2001年受雇于《世界新闻报》担任电话窃听负责人的格伦·马尔凯尔也承认了这一点。

DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for Windows 8 — though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google’s on that count before.

DNT似乎并不是Windows 8一个明显的重大卖点——尽管该公司以前曾在这一点上拿自己的其他一些产品与谷歌的产品作比较，以显示自身的优势。

It’s just you made some [mistakes] in the report and she wanted to point these out so that you do better next time.

只不过是你在报告中犯了一些错误，她想把这些指出来，好让你下次做得更好。

Williams pointed to rising production costs and declining attendee donations as primary reasons the Silver Room Block Party could not continue, highlighting a reality that all street festival organizers face right now.

威廉姆斯指出，不断上涨的举办成本和不断减少的参与者捐款是银屋街区派对无法继续的主要原因，这凸显了当下所有街头节庆组织者都面临的现实。

The price of nails fell by 90% between the late 1700s and mid-1900s, as economist Daniel Sichel points out in a research paper.

正如经济学家丹尼尔·西切尔在一篇研究论文中指出的，从18世纪末到20世纪中叶，钉子的价格下降了90%。

Branch points out that, even if a growing number of official guidelines and textbooks reflect scientific consensus on climate change, unofficial educational materials that convey more slanted perspectives are being distributed to teachers.

布兰奇指出，即便越来越多的官方指南和教科书反映了关于气候变化的科学共识，传达更多偏颇观点的非官方教材却正在被分发给教师。

However, short-term rentals also provide housing for tourists, pointed out Ryan Castle, CEO of a local association of realtors.

然而，当地一家房地产经纪人协会的首席执行官瑞安·卡斯尔指出，短期租赁也为游客提供了住处。

However, supporters of fake grass point out that there is also an environmental impact with natural lawns, which need mowing and therefore usually consume electricity or petrol.

然而，假草坪的支持者指出，天然草坪同样会对环境造成影响，因为它们需要修剪，因此通常要消耗电力或汽油。