Like Disney, Miyazaki wasn't afraid to wade into the nitty gritty work of animated filmmaking.

和迪士尼一样，宫崎骏并不惧怕动画制作中琐碎工作。

Gap year experiences can lessen the blow when it comes to adjusting to college and being thrown into a brand new environment, making it easier to focus on academics and activities rather than acclimation blunders.

间隔年经历能够减轻学生在适应大学生活以及身陷全新环境之时所遇到挫折，使他们更容易专注于学业及集体活动上，而不必为适应问题分心。

Recent events have demonstrated to me that my body is too fragile to endure the vicissitudes of the world.

鉴于近来发生事，我意识到我肉身太过脆弱承受不了大千世界。

Charming in private, awkward in public, scrupulously honest and a bit out of touch, Lech Kaczynski exemplified the strengths and weaknesses of the political milieu from which he came.

莱赫·卡钦斯基私下里充满魅力，大庭广众却举止笨拙，严谨正直，有点儿跟时，在他身上，体现了他所出身政治环境优缺点。

Doctors are bombarded with advertising encouraging them to prescribe certain drugs.

医生看到粉饰过“广告”后，也很难在开药时候毫不动摇。

This can give rise to curious situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation.

而这常常会引起现象，在埃尔斯米尔公司当清洁工艾尔弗雷德∙布洛斯就是一个例子。

The project was scuppered in the end by a mix of political queasiness over the fallout

由于政治上对它带来后果不安，该项目最终泡了汤。

Is there any difference in principle between the kind of moral reasoning and the kind of disagreements that arise when we debate about justice and the meaning of free speech and the nature of religious liberty?

我们做道德推理，和我们在讨论公正，言论自由意义，信仰自由本质问题时产生不同意见，是否在本质上存在不同？

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

在生活和事业事务之中，性格比才智更能指导我们，心灵比头脑更能引导我们，而由判断获得克制、耐心和教养比天分更能让我们受益。

Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed: 12-hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on “quality time”.

什么也说服不了我回到过去那凯茜所宣扬、我也曾自得其乐生活中去：每天12小时工作日，压得人喘不过气来最后期限，可怕而紧张办公室争权夺利，以及因为时间有限连做母亲也得“高效率”所造成限制。

It is not without melancholy that I wander among my recollections of the world of letters in London when first, bashful but eager, I was introduced to it.

我刚刚被引进伦敦文学界时候，心情又是热切又是羞涩；现在回忆起当时情况，不无凄凉之感。

While the term AI conjures up anxieties about killer robots or catastrophic levels of unemployment, there are other, deeper implications.

虽然 AI 这个词会让人想到有关机器人杀手或灾难性失业水平忧虑，但它还有其他更深层次影响。

In my line of work, you'll hear a lot about talent, which is an idea we mostly invented to give ourselves an excuse to be lazy.

在我工作中，你会听到很多关于天赋，这只是我们大多数人编造出来给自己一个懒惰借口。

A nation’s greatness is the sum of its citizens: the values, pride, love, devotion, and character of the people who call that nation home.

一个国家就是由其人民和价值奉献以及不同个性人结合起来，国家才会更加强大。

And the whole thing just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and you're just trying to live your life through all this weirdness.

当整件事情（当上总统） 推进发展得越来越壮大时，生活中充满着不可思议事情。

Gen X got to experience the aftermath of all the changes the boomers made.

X 世经历了婴儿潮一所带来变革结果。

I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago when I was 8 , I was confused about being called “bossy, ” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents—but the boys were not.

很久之前我就开始质疑基于性别预设，当我八岁时，因为我想编排给家长们演出就被斥为“专横”，而男孩不会受到同样指责。

What's going on here? The answer is miscommunication, and in some form or another, we've all experienced it. It can lead to confusion, animosity, misunderstanding, or even crashing a multimillion dollar probe into the surface of Mars.

这到底是怎么回事？答案是沟通不良。在不同情况下，我们都会遇到这状况。这(沟通不良)将导致他人困惑，仇恨引发，误会，或者，甚至是不必要误会。

We all are happy, all the different things.

我们都会感到喜悦，不同情绪。

To highlight all of this, I want to tell the tale of two tomatoes.

为了强调以上，我想讲两个西红柿故事。