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ad. 现今，在当代55 次
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。
Science education today revolves around the idea of scientific literacy — the base-level knowledge about science that nonscientists require to effectively get on in the world.
当今的科学教育围绕着“科学素养”这一理念展开——即非科学工作者在世界上有效立足所需的基础科学知识。
(47) A return to that version of scientific literacy, which focused more on teaching what science is and how it works and less on memorizing scientific facts, seems like something society today desperately needs.
(47) 回归那种版本的科学素养——更注重教授科学是什么以及科学如何运作，而较少注重记忆科学事实——似乎正是当今社会迫切需要的。
“Insects that today are a minor problem may become a major problem if they can produce three or four generations in a year,” says forest ecologist John Stanturf.
森林生态学家约翰·斯坦图夫说：“如今只是小问题的昆虫，如果一年能繁殖三四代，就可能变成大问题。”
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。
The amounts have risen from 10% or less in the 1950s to 15% around the year 2000 to 20% or higher today.
小费比例已从1950年代的10%或更低，升至2000年前后的15%，再到如今的20%或更高。
n. 现在15 次
Today’s tip requests are often not connected to the salary and service norms that used to determine when and how people tip.
如今的小费要求往往与过去决定人们何时、如何付小费的薪资和服务规范无关。
Compared with tips in the past, today’s tips ____
与过去的小费相比，如今的小费____
But exposure times were much quicker by the 1880s, and the introduction of the Box Brownie and other portable cameras meant that, though slow by today’s digital standards, the exposure was almost instantaneous.
但到了19世纪80年代，曝光时间已经快多了，而布朗尼盒式相机和其他便携式相机的问世意味着，尽管按今天的数码标准来看仍然很慢，但曝光几乎是瞬间完成的。
Today’s CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many more skills than simply being able to “run the company.”
如今的首席执行官，至少就美国大公司而言，必须具备的技能远不止于能够“经营公司”。
Compared with their predecessors, today’s CEOs are required to ____
与前任相比，如今的首席执行官被要求____
CEOs’ Challenges of Today
当今首席执行官面临的挑战
ad. 在今天4 次
He has [compared] it with plumbing, pointing out that a plumber doesn’t wake up and say that he can’t work with pipes today.
他把写作比作水管工的活儿，指出水管工不会一觉醒来就说自己今天不能修水管。
The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today.
《科学》杂志主编玛西娅·麦克纳特今天宣布，该杂志将在同行评审流程中增加一轮统计审查。
But a comparative study of linguistic traits published online today supplies a reality check.
但今天在线发表的一项关于语言特征的比较研究提供了一次现实检验。
Leading doctors today weigh in on the debate over the government's role in promoting public health by demanding that ministers impose “fat taxes” on unhealthy food and introduce cigarette-style warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet.
今天，一些顶尖医生加入了关于政府在促进公众健康中应扮演何种角色的辩论，他们要求部长们对不健康食品征收“脂肪税”，并像对香烟那样向儿童发出警示，告诫他们不良饮食的危害。