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Ebola is highly lethal but hard to catch; victims die quickly, before they can pass it on. COVID-19 is the opposite, which means that people tend not to take it as seriously as they should, and so it has, and will continue to, spread widely across the globe, causing vast numbers of deaths.
埃博拉病毒病死率很高,但很难被感染;患者在传播疾病之前就会很快死去。而新冠病毒恰好相反,这意味着人们往往不会重视它,因此它得以在全球范围内广泛传播,而且未来还会继续传播,造成大量死亡。
Spoon-feeding education causes students' loss of interest in learning. But quality education is the opposite, which focuses on the whole — social, emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive — development of each student.填鸭式教育使学生失去了学习的兴趣,而素质教育相反,它关注学生的全面发展——社交、情绪、思想、身体和认知。
Many people believe that the technology will only make things worse, but the truth is quite the opposite.
Since elite universities tend to produce higher-earning graduates than less selective institutions do, you might expect them to teach more practical courses. Yet data from Britain’s department for education show the opposite.
与普通高校相比,精英大学培养出的毕业生往往收入更高,你可能认为这些精英大学教授更多实践性课程。然而,英国教育部的数据显示,情况恰恰相反。
However, figures for the taxi-saturated CBD tell the opposite story. During the two years to June 2015, Uber’s pickups in the CBD rose from an estimated 175,000 to 1.8m, while yellow cabs’ hails in the area fell by around 1.4m.
然而,来自出租车密集的中央商务区的数据则显示了另一番景象。在截至2015年6月的两年时间里,Uber在CBD的载客量从约17.5万增长到180万,而该地区黄色出租车的载客量减少了约140万。
There will be no moment when countries will be able to declare victory over the disease; rather, economies will open up slowly and tentatively, with progress slowed by subsequent waves of infections. Hopes for a V-shaped recovery appear wildly optimistic.
各国宣布战胜疾病的时间遥遥无期,而经济会缓慢、试探性地开放,随后的感染潮将减缓复苏的进展。对V型复苏的希望似乎过于乐观。
Hopes for excelling at work while raising a child appear wildly optimistic.一边带着孩子,一边还要在工作上出类拔萃,这想得似乎过于乐观了。
Only large companies with deep pockets will be able to ride out the storm, with the technology giants gaining most of all, as digital interactions become ever more important.
只有资金雄厚的大公司才能渡过难关,因为数字交互变得愈加重要,科技巨头从中受益最多。
The quickening pace of modern life has made competition increasingly fierce, but we must have the courage to ride the storm out.当代生活节奏不断加快,使竞争日趋激烈,但我们必须有勇气渡过难关。
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