1.How can we reap the benefits of connectivity without becoming its slaves? One solution is ? ? digital dieting.
-digital dieting “電子的節(jié)食”
2.Take depression. It at least doubles an?otherwise healthy?person's heart-attack risk.
? ??Otherwise-sane people check their smartphones obsessively, even during pre-dinner ? drinks, and send e-mails first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
? ? The new medicine saved me from an illness which might otherwise have been hopeless. ?
-an?otherwise healthy?person 一個本來健康的人
??Otherwise-sane people 本來神志清晰的人
-本來樂于助人的人,對這種事情也變得熟視無睹
? Otherwise-helpful people are blind to the kind of thing. ?
3.three-to five- year-olds/three- and four-year-olds
? ? 三到四歲的人 三或四歲的人
-?under-threes ?三歲以下的孩子(只需要用數(shù)字表達)
十八歲以上的成年人 over-eighteens?
4.Where fathers have been offered paternity leave, they have been slow to take it up, for fear that having more than a few days off?might harm their career.But if parental leave is offered on a use-it-or-lose basis to the parent who is not the main carer, usually the father, uptake increases, as Germany has been finding after a series of recent reforms.
use-it-or-lose ?要么用要么沒有
-想一想贬芥,我對媽媽說我不想吃芝士東西,有別的嗎嚎货?
? 媽媽回答說 要么吃要么沒有
?eat-it-or-lose
5.to illustrate the difficulty of weighing “he-said-she-said” evidence
描述衡量各執(zhí)一詞的證據(jù)的難處
he-said-she-said
可以根據(jù)這種形式仿寫單詞
-感覺這種句子適合書面語纫溃,在口語中不會這么說吧
6.Such inns as there were generally dirty and flea-ridden.
flea-ridden 跳騷猖獗的
蚊子猖獗的 mosquito-ridden
犯罪猖獗的 crime-ridden
交通很多的 traffic-ridden
7.