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Too many managers can't identify their own staff members' deliverables, leaving only the face-time metric as a way to evaluate whatever they value, be it performance or docility.

太多的经理们弄不清他们的下属有多大的产能，不得不用上班时间这把尺子来衡量他们所看重的方面，不管是业绩还是遵守纪律。

Starting to see the reason in another religion can also help you develop mental flexibility – when you really look at all the different ways people comprehend the same mysteries, and the fact that they generally manage to survive regardless of what they believe, you start to see the limitations of whatever dogma or doxy you follow, a revelation that will transfer quite a bit into the non-religious parts of your life.

理解其他宗教的意义也有助于发展思想的灵活性——当你真正看到人们是如何用不同的方式诠释同样的神秘的时候，实际上不管信仰如何，他们只是为着生存而已，你会开始发现你所信仰的教条和教义的局限性，你的生活就会发生极大的转变，过渡到一种无信仰状态。

Eccles's own empirical study of residential construction in Massachusetts shows not only that subcontracting relationships are long term in nature but also that it is very rare for a general contractor to employ more than two or three subcontractors in a given trade, whatever number of projects is handled in the course of a year 1981, pp.

Eccles自己对麻州民用建筑业的经验性研究不仅表明转包关系在本性上是长期的，并且还表明了总承包商在一个特定的项目中雇用超过两个或三个分包商的情况是很非常罕见的，无论在一年的过程中所拿到的项目数量有多少。

It is likely the Russians wanted to emasculate Germany and/or take whatever reparations they could against a Germany that had decimated Russia's population.

可能俄国人想要削弱德国的生产能力，也或者想拿一切来赔偿弥补由于战争而带来的巨大的人口损失。

You have been wisely admonished to "accustom yourselves to think and speak of the Union as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety, discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of any attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."

你们曾被理智地告诫过："你们要习惯于像对待护佑你们政治上的安全与繁荣的守护神那样想到它或谈论它；要小心翼翼、无微不至地保护它：要驳斥一切抛弃它的想法，即使对它抱有丝毫怀疑亦不允许；要义正词严地反对刚冒头的、一切可能使我国的任何部分与其他部分疏远并削弱连接全国各地的神圣纽带的种种企图。"

But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.

但是，正如人们很容易预见的是，从不同的原因和从不同的四分之三，但将采取的痛苦，许多技巧来削弱你的头脑的信念这个真理；因为这是指向您的政治堡垒，用以电池内部和外部的敌人将是最经常，积极导演，这是无限的时刻，你应该适当估计的巨大价值的国家联盟的集体和个人的幸福，你应该珍惜了亲切，习惯，和不动产查封的情况； accustoming自己去思考和谈论它的钯的政治安全和繁荣；看其保存嫉妒焦虑； discountenancing任何可能暗示甚至怀疑，它可以在任何情况下，被遗弃；和愤怒时皱着眉头的第一个到来的每一个企图疏远的任何部分，我国从其他国家，或enfeeble神圣的关系联系在一起，现在的各个部分。

You have been wisely admonished to "accustom yourselves to think and speak of the Union as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with Jealous anxiety, discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of any attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts." Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they never can be maintained.

你们曾被理智地告诫过："你们要习惯于像对待护佑你们政治上的安全与繁荣的守护神那样想到它或谈论它，要小心翼翼、无微不至地保护它；要驳斥一切抛弃它的想法，即使对它抱有丝毫怀疑亦不允许；要义正词严地反对刚回头的、一切可能使我国的任何部分与其他部分疏远并削弱连接全国各地的神圣纽带的种种企图"。

But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth, as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.

然而，不难预见，会有某些力量试图削弱你们心里对这个真理的信念，这些力量起因不一，来源各异，但均煞费苦心，千方百计地産生作用。其所以如此，是因爲统一是你们政治堡垒中的一个攻击重点，内外敌人的炮火，会不断加紧(虽然常是隐蔽地和阴险地)攻击。因此，当前最重要的是你们应当正确估量民族团结对于你们集体和个人幸福的巨大价值。对于它你们应当怀有诚挚的、一贯的和坚定不移的忠诚；你们在思想上和言谈中应习惯于把它当作政治安定和繁荣的保护神，你们要小心翼翼地维护它。如果有人提到这种信念在某种情况下可以拋弃，即使那只是猜想，也不应当表示支持，如果有人企图使我国的一部分脱离其余部分，或想削弱现在联系各部份的神圣纽带，只要他们一提出来，你们就应当予以怒斥。

Don't externalize whatever indecision or inner conflict you have by doubling up on majors.

不要让你的优柔寡断或是内心的矛盾在选择专业上犯错误——选择两个专业。

We can be certain that whatever artificial closed systems we fabricate will sooner or later be opened.

我们可以肯定的是，无论哪一个人工制造的封闭系统，都或早或晚地会被打开的。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。