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They were told they would be assigned to a taste test of either fresh-squeezed orange juice or a gelatinous, clumpy and rather unappealing veggie smoothie, depending on whether they saw a farm animal or sea creature.

受测者被告知正在进行品味测试，如果从图片中看到农场动物，就说明你喜欢鲜榨果汁，如果看到海洋生物就说明你喜欢果冻样、块状、毫无吸引力的蔬菜冰砂。通常受测者会选择和果汁对应的图像。

You may decide not to name the person or thing and use a pronoun rather than a proper noun or common noun.

你可能不想通过说出事物的名字来提及它，并且想使用代词而不是专有名词或普通名词

Concubinage is not to be allowed by the tolerance of superiors, or as an evil custom of a great number of sinners, which should rather be called a corruption, or under any other excuse; but let those involved be punished severely in accordance with the judgment of the law .

纳妾是不能容许的公差的上级，或者作为一个邪恶定制了大量的罪人，而应该称为腐败，或任何其他藉口；但是，让那些参与被严惩按照判决该法。

The objective is not to provide a whole living place to the affected families rather to help the Households to initiate the building of their own household areas by extending as per their own design and necessities - using the leaves, straws, polythene, or the corrugated iron shits that they have or get/collect from other sources.

这样做的目的并不是为受灾家庭提供整个生活空间，而是协助他们启动自己房屋的建造，使用他们自己的设计和物资，使用树叶、稻草、聚乙烯或废旧钢铁，以及任何他们能收集到的材料。

Like an index, this book does not summarize or inclusively represent, but rather points to or "indicates" a cross-fertilization of ideas between theory and practice and between education and the world of making.

就像一般索引的一样，这本书并不是在总结或是做归纳性地陈述，而更多的是指示和提纲挈领，简要地"点"出在理论与实践，学院教育与实际建造交叉过程中产生的想法。

Justmyfish wants to crossbreed my clone and asks: Would you rather be a cloud or a bird a lion or lamb?

问：你想做一朵云，一只鸟，一只老虎还是小羊羔？

Lower-level fraud, however, is much harder to detect: the data point invented or erased to make a graph look better, or to make a result that was not quite statistically significant into that scientific desideratum, the "minimum publishable unit"; the results "mined" retrospectively for interesting correlations, rather than used to test pre-existing hypotheses; the photograph that has been "enhanced" to bring out what the researcher regards as the salient features.

不过，更难被发现的是低级造假：生造或抹掉一个数据点来美化图表；或者让原本统计学意义并不显著的结果摇身一变，竟成了科学上需要的东西，即"最小出版单位"（也就是说文章所提供的数据量刚好够上发表条件，说的其实就是宁要数量，不要质量）；把既往研究的结果"开采出来"，是为了寻找有意义的关联，而不是用来检验已有的假设；对图片进行"深加工"以表现出研究人员心目中的显著特征。

But loyalty—whether to one's friends, to one's school or place of employment, or to any institution—is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force.

但忠诚——无论是对于自己的朋友、学校、工作单位，还是对任何机构的忠诚——在太多的时候是一种具有破坏性的而非建设性的力量。

Thus, in point of fact, I did not apprehend the object rightly when I defined it as a "commonness" or community with others, or as continuity; and must rather, taking account of the determinateness of the property, isolate parts within the continuity and set down the object as a "one" that excludes.

因此我对于客观实在的认识事实上是不正确的，当我把它规定为和他物的一种共同体或者把它规定为连续体，而且由于特质的规定性，我必须分割开这连续体，并把它设定为排他的单一体。

You ask me if I love you And I choke on my reply I'd rather hurt you honestly Than mislead you with a lie For who am I to judge you In what you say or do I'm only just beginning To see the real you And sometimes when we touch The honesty's too much And I have to close my eyes And hide I wanna hold you till I die Till we both break down and cry I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides Romance's an honest strategy Leaves me grappling with my pride But through the years of maturity Some tenderness survives I'm just another writer Still trapped within my truth A hesitant prize-fighter Still trapped within my youth At times I'd like to break you And drive you to your knees At times I'd like to break through And hold you endlessly At times I understand you And I know how hard you try I've watched whil love commands you And I've watched love pass you by At times I think we're drifters Still searching for a friend A brother or a sister But then the passion flares again....

我只是开始看到了越来越真实的你有时候我抚摸着你真实让我几乎无法承受我不得不闭上双眼来掩饰真想拥抱着你直到我离开这个世界直到我们因崩溃而哭泣真想拥抱着你到我心中的恐惧能平静的那一天浪漫的传奇，个中滋味在与我的自尊心的斗争中消失不见只在那不安全的感受过后残留了一些温存我变成了另外一个著者被我自己的真实俘获一个犹豫不决的荣誉战士被我自己的真实俘获不时地我想冒犯你狠狠的打击你有时我又想克服这个想法，把你深深地拥在怀里到永远有时候我明白你的心知道你努力的有多么辛苦我看到爱情支配你的行动我亦看到你是怎么错过了它有的时候我会想我们都是流浪的孩子仍在寻找自己的好伙伴一个兄弟或者姐妹可是激情，它又一次爆发了出来有时候我们抚摸着对方真实让我几乎无法承受我不得不闭上双眼来掩饰真想拥抱着你直到我离开这个世界直到我们因崩溃而哭泣真想拥抱着你到我心中的恐惧能平静的那一天

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。