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A woman says there have been fewer street fights since the arrival of the wireless but also less stopping and “talking on the brush handle”.

一位女士说，自从有了无线电，街头打架少了，但人们停下来“拄着扫帚柄聊天”的情况也少了。

Today we fret about the isolating culture of smartphone-staring and selfie-vanity, but already in 1939 there was that lady regretting how, when all her street got wirelesses, it lost the neighbourly habit of “talking on the brush handle”.

如今我们为盯着智能手机、沉迷自拍虚荣所造成的孤立文化而烦恼，但早在1939年，就有那位女士惋惜，当她所在的整条街都装上了无线电后，邻里间“拄着扫帚柄聊天”的习惯就消失了。

The expression “talking on the brush handle” in Paragraphs 3 and 6 refers to the act of ____

第3段和第6段中的“talking on the brush handle”指的是____的行为

According to our research, around one in five workers in the UK talk to AI like a friend, looking for guidance on personal and professional problems.

根据我们的研究，英国约有五分之一的员工像对待朋友一样与人工智能交谈，就个人和工作问题寻求指导。

Researchers analysed the frequency and impact of gaps greater than 2 seconds during conversations, including an overview of previous studies which indicate that the fear of awkward silences can be so extreme that people avoid talking to strangers, even though doing so is likely to be an enjoyable experience.

研究人员分析了谈话中超过2秒的停顿出现的频率及其影响，其中包括对以往研究的综述，这些研究表明，人们对尴尬沉默的恐惧可能极其强烈，以至于会避免与陌生人交谈，尽管与陌生人交谈很可能是一种愉快的经历。

They also provide an opportunity to talk to the people responsible for growing or raising your food, support your local economy and pick up fresh seasonal produce — all at the same time.

它们还提供了一个机会，让你可以与种植或养殖你的食物的人交谈，支持当地经济，并挑选新鲜的时令农产品——这一切可以同时完成。

“When you talk about conservation or restoration, the first question has to be restoration by whom, for whom?” says Daniel Janzen, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

宾夕法尼亚大学的生物学家丹尼尔·詹曾说：“当你谈论保护或恢复时，首先要问的问题必须是：由谁来恢复，为谁而恢复？”

Instead of saying what is wrong, broken, or suboptimal, talk about what is right, fixable, or ideal.

不要说什么是错的、坏的或不够好的，而要谈什么是对的、可修复的或理想的。

“We’re talking about disruption,” she says.

“我们谈论的是颠覆，”她说。

“The publishing industry talks about diversity in terms of authors and staff but it also needs a plurality of ways of delivering intellectual contact, choice and different voices.

“出版业谈论作者和员工方面的多样性，但它也需要以多元的方式来传递思想交流、选择和不同的声音。

Older generations often talk about their degree in the present and personal tense: ‘I am a geographer’ or ‘I am a classicist’.

老一辈人常常用现在时和第一人称谈论自己的学位：“我是地理学家”或“我是古典学家”。

If you’re breathing too hard to talk in complete sentences, back off.

如果你喘得厉害，连完整的句子都说不出来，那就放慢节奏。

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。

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。

The idea that “housing crisis” equals “concreted meadows” is pure lobby talk.

认为“住房危机”就等于“草地被混凝土覆盖”的观点纯属游说者的说辞。

America's Federal Trade Commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers.

美国联邦贸易委员会发起了一轮关于如何拯救报纸的讨论。

Some people like small talk in a meeting before digging into important matters, while other are more straightforward.

有些人喜欢在会议中先闲聊几句再深入讨论重要事项，而另一些人则更加直截了当。

Skip the small talk

跳过寒暄

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。

The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

自2009年突然宣布任命艾伦·吉尔伯特以来，纽约爱乐乐团聘请他担任下一任音乐总监的决定一直是古典音乐界热议的话题。