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But the thing is, [whether] your self-worth really is being undermined is, to a large degree, subjective.

但问题是，你的自我价值是否真的受到了削弱，在很大程度上是主观的。

When you take things personally, you’re interpreting these situations as saying something significant and negative about you as a person.

当你把事情往自己身上揽时，你就是在把这些情形解读为对你这个人作出了某种重大而负面的评价。

Among other things, she says, all cities should create a vulnerability map to help focus responses on the populations most at risk.

她说，除此之外，所有城市都应绘制一张脆弱性地图，以帮助将应对措施集中在风险最高的人群身上。

After writing two books about the history of inventions, one thing I’ve learnt is that while it is the enchantingly sophisticated technologies that get all the hype, it’s the cheap technologies that change the world.

在写了两本关于发明史的书之后，我明白了一件事：虽然备受追捧的是那些精妙迷人的复杂技术，但真正改变世界的却是廉价的技术。

One thing that does seem to work is requiring drivers to report in person for license renewal.

有一项措施看来确实有效，那就是要求司机亲自到场办理驾照更新。

“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。

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”。

Christopher Kettle, Biodiversity International’s director for forest genetic resources and restoration in Rome, says that the need for infrastructure — things such as mechanisms for collecting and storing seeds, and nurseries to raise seedlings — might be most desperate here because many trees are ‘masting’ species, which don’t produce seeds every year.

国际生物多样性中心驻罗马的森林遗传资源与恢复主任克里斯托弗·凯特尔表示，这里对基础设施——诸如收集和储存种子的机制以及培育幼苗的苗圃——的需求可能最为迫切，因为许多树木属于“大年结实”物种，并非每年都结种子。

The thing itself is the medium that delivers the information.

物品本身就是传递信息的媒介。

Nearly 2,000 years ago, as the Romans began to pull out of Scotland, they left behind a curious treasure: 10 tons of nails, nearly a million of the things.

大约2000年前，罗马人开始撤出苏格兰时，留下了一批奇特的宝藏：10吨钉子，将近一百万枚。

I was keen to read more, but was surprised to find that Oman’s appendix, published in 1914, was the only considered thing that had been written about this secret war.

我很想读到更多相关内容，却惊讶地发现，欧曼1914年出版的这篇附录是唯一一篇经过深思熟虑写就的关于这场秘密战争的文字。

This all seems random, but it’s by design, part of what the $6.1 billion U.S. egg industry bets will be its next big thing: climate-friendly eggs.

这一切看似随意，实则是精心设计的，是价值61亿美元的美国鸡蛋行业押注的下一个重头戏的一部分：气候友好型鸡蛋。

“Whatever we mean by the economy growing, by things getting better, the gains will have to be more evenly shared than in the recent past,” she writes.

她写道：“无论我们所说的经济增长、情况变好指的是什么，收益都必须比近年来分配得更加均衡。”

Things changed, [however], when an innovative project-marketing manager came aboard, [created] a growth team and sparked the kind of [fresh] perspective they needed.

{{8}}，当一位富有创新精神的项目营销经理加入后，情况发生了变化：他{{9}}了一个增长团队，并激发出他们所需要的那种{{10}}视角。

But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

但即便你接受弗里德曼的前提，认为企业社会责任（CSR）政策是在浪费股东的钱，事情也未必那么泾渭分明。

You can be easily caught up by life problems that you forget to pause and appreciate the things you have.

你很容易陷入生活的种种问题之中，以至于忘了停下来珍惜自己所拥有的东西。

For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy.

首先，与数字经济内部的变化速度相比，它非常缓慢。

For one thing, conversations about wildfires need to be more inclusive.

首先，关于野火的讨论需要更具包容性。

Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning — or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need.

坐下来读书时，与工作相关的思绪像飞轮一样转个不停——要不然就是你累得筋疲力尽，最不需要的就是一本有难度的书。