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“It’s a double-edged sword because wildfires are getting more severe and larger under climate change and we need this work even more, but then the work gets more challenging,” said Susan Prichard, a fire ecologist at the University of Washington.

“这是一把双刃剑，因为在气候变化下野火变得越来越严重、规模越来越大，我们更加需要这项工作，但这项工作也变得更具挑战性，”华盛顿大学的火灾生态学家苏珊·普里查德说。

“It’s a double-edged sword because wildfires are getting more severe and larger under climate change and we need this work even more, but then the work gets more challenging,” said Susan Prichard, a fire ecologist at the University of Washington.

“这是一把双刃剑，因为在气候变化下野火变得越来越严重、规模越来越大，我们更加需要这项工作，但这项工作也变得更具挑战性，”华盛顿大学的火灾生态学家苏珊·普里查德说。

It is undoubtedly true that all work and no play really does make Jack, or Jill, dull. The cure is right at hand. Reading is cheap, easy and, most important, it’s fun. Liberate your imagination this year.

毫无疑问，只工作不玩耍确实会让人变得乏味。解药就在手边。阅读便宜、简单，最重要的是，它很有趣。今年就解放你的想象力吧。

(48) Educators advanced the idea of having students complete detailed laboratory exercises in high schools in the belief that such work was beneficial primarily as a way to enhance logical reasoning and observational skills.

(48) 教育工作者提出让学生在中学完成详细的实验室练习，他们认为这种做法的益处主要在于它是提高逻辑推理和观察能力的一种方式。

And there was the (then-secret) work building the world’s first atomic bomb.

此外还有制造世界上第一颗原子弹的（当时属于机密的）工作。

So if we are to protect our libraries for future generations, we must raise awareness of them and the work they do.

因此，如果我们要为子孙后代保护好图书馆，就必须提高人们对图书馆及其工作的认识。

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工作

work with private institutions.

与私营机构合作。

“The research shows that the way actors work makes a big difference to the way children use language and also how they think about themselves,” Jacqui O’Hanlon of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which commissioned the study, said.

委托开展这项研究的皇家莎士比亚剧团（RSC）的杰姬·奥汉隆说：“研究表明，演员的工作方式对孩子们使用语言的方式以及他们如何看待自己有很大影响。”

pupils may be reluctant to work on other old dramatists.

学生可能不愿学习其他古代剧作家。

With no video production costs, illegal streaming sites have achieved profit margins approaching 90%, according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a trade group representing Hollywood studios that’s working to crack down on the thousands of illegal platforms that have cropped up in recent years.

据美国电影协会（MPA）称，由于没有视频制作成本，非法流媒体网站的利润率已接近90%；美国电影协会是代表好莱坞各制片公司的行业组织，正致力于打击近年来涌现的数以千计的非法平台。

(50) They pool resources, collaborate, think outside the box, and find solutions and ways around obstacles to explore science for the sake of science without the traditional boundaries of working inside a formal setting.

(50) 他们汇集资源、相互协作、跳出固有思维，寻找解决办法和绕开障碍的途径，为科学而探索科学，不受在正规机构内工作的传统界限束缚。

emotion affects understanding of sophisticated works.

情感是否影响对复杂作品的理解。

For example, type in “Wizard with sword and a glowing orb of magic fire fights a fierce dragon Greg Rutkowski,” and the system will produce something that looks not a million miles away from works in Rutkowski’s style.

例如，输入“手持宝剑和发光魔法火球的巫师大战凶猛巨龙 格雷格·鲁特科夫斯基”，系统就会生成一幅与鲁特科夫斯基风格的作品相差无几的图像。

The online search brought back work that had his name attached to it but wasn’t his.

网上搜索的结果却是一些署着他的名字、但并非出自他手的作品。

I probably won’t be able to find my work out there because the internet will be flooded with AI art,” Rutkowski says.

到时我可能在网上都找不到自己的作品了，因为互联网将充斥着人工智能艺术，”鲁特科夫斯基说。

Other artists besides Rutkowski have been surprised by the apparent popularity of their work in text-to-image generators — and some are now fighting back.

除鲁特科夫斯基外，其他艺术家也对自己的作品在文本生成图像工具中明显受欢迎感到吃惊——其中一些人现在正在进行反击。

Karla Ortiz, an illustrator based in San Francisco who found her work in Stable Diffusion’s data set, has been raising awareness about the issues around AI art and copyright.

旧金山插画师卡拉·奥尔蒂斯在 Stable Diffusion 的数据集中发现了自己的作品，她一直在努力提高人们对人工智能艺术与版权相关问题的认识。

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。

Nature’s poll findings suggest that this trend is as strong as ever, but, to make a collaboration work, both sides need to invest time and embrace surprise and challenge.

《自然》的调查结果表明，这一趋势一如既往地强劲，但要让合作取得成功，双方都需要投入时间，并欣然接受意外和挑战。

Constant Complaining Doesn’t Work

不断抱怨无济于事

Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won’t work.

你的老板提出了一项你认为行不通的新举措。

I have reasons to think that won’t work.

我有理由认为那行不通。

The success of Sci-Hub, which relies on researchers passing on copies they have themselves legally accessed, shows the legal ecosystem has lost legitimacy among its users and must be transformed so that it works for all participants.

Sci-Hub依靠研究人员转发他们自己合法获取的副本而取得成功，这表明合法的出版生态系统已在其用户中失去了正当性，必须加以变革，使其对所有参与者都有效。

(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。

the new teaching method may work best with Shakespeare.

这种新教学方法可能用在莎士比亚作品上效果最好。

When it works, it works great — because you’re ready for your stubborn supervisor’s pushback with answers like, “Actually, I connected with a few people in our tech department to discuss how much time these kinds of website updates would take, and they suggested they have the bandwidth.”

这样做奏效时，效果会非常好——因为你已准备好应对固执上司的反对，回答诸如：“其实，我已经联系了技术部门的几个人，讨论这类网站更新需要多少时间，他们表示有精力来做。”

When it works, it works great — because you’re ready for your stubborn supervisor’s pushback with answers like, “Actually, I connected with a few people in our tech department to discuss how much time these kinds of website updates would take, and they suggested they have the bandwidth.”

这样做奏效时，效果会非常好——因为你已准备好应对固执上司的反对，回答诸如：“其实，我已经联系了技术部门的几个人，讨论这类网站更新需要多少时间，他们表示有精力来做。”

Travel on a London bus and you’ll [quickly] see how this works with drivers.

乘坐一次伦敦公交车，你很快就会看到这一点在司机身上是如何体现的。

That misses the way the surveillance economy works.

这忽略了监控经济的运作方式。

This is why the recent severe delays caused by numerous maintenance works have thrown the rail industry into chaos at a time when most people head on holiday, which matters for business in a country where tourism accounts for 10 percent of GDP.

正因如此，近期大量维修工程造成的严重延误，在大多数人外出度假之际让铁路行业陷入混乱，而在一个旅游业占GDP 10%的国家，这对经济事关重大。

In both [examples] — and others that we all experience — there’s another [process] at work that psychologists call mind reading.

在这两个例子中——以及我们都经历过的其他情形中——还有另一个心理过程在起作用，心理学家称之为“读心”。

(46) They sometimes travel more than sixty miles to find food or water, and are very good at working out where other elephants are — even when they are out of sight.

（46）它们有时会跋涉六十多英里去寻找食物或水源，而且非常善于判断其他大象的位置——即使在看不见对方的时候也是如此。

Yet the new system has not worked out any cheaper for the universities.

然而，新体系并没有让大学的花费减少。

There has been a kind of inflationary process at work: (47) nowadays anyone applying for a research post has to have published twice the number of papers that would have been required for the same post only 10 years ago.

一种膨胀的过程一直在起作用：(47) 如今，任何申请研究职位的人发表的论文数量，都必须是仅仅10年前同一职位所要求数量的两倍。

I'm experiencing increased zeal for working out since I no longer carry the burden of a [disappointing] morning weigh-in.

由于不再背负每天早上称重令人失望的负担，我对锻炼的热情增加了。

You meet new people every day: the grocery worker, the cab driver, new people at work or the security guard at the door.

你每天都会遇到新的人：杂货店店员、出租车司机、单位里的新同事或门口的保安。