This was exactly like Muggle chess except that the figures were alive, which made it a lot like directing troops in battle.

巫师棋和麻瓜棋一模一样，但它棋子都是活，所以使人感觉更像是在指挥军队作战。

Well, I decided I wanted a programme that would fit in with what I wanted to do after I graduate, so I looked for a university with emphasis on acting rather than directing for example. It depends on you.

我当初决定学习对我毕业之后要做工作有帮助课程，所以我就找了找表演课很棒大学，而不是导演课之类。还是要根据你自己情况而定。

Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits.

与其否定自己是受习惯影响一成不变生物，不如通过有培养新习惯来改变自己。

Why don't you go to the headmaster direct?

你为什么不直接去找校长呢？

Oh, yeah. We should let the staff know the channels of communication, you know, who they can contact or direct questions to about these changes.

是。我们应该让员工知道沟通渠道，你懂得，他们应该联系谁，应该问谁关于这些改变问题。

Overeating and no exercise are the direct cause of her becoming corpulent.

过度饮食和不锻炼是她变胖直接原因。

There’s still some English words with SK like skirt and skull but they’re direct borrowings from Old Norse that come after the SK to SH shift.

现在仍有些英语词汇有着SK，比如裙子和头盖骨，但是它们来自于古斯堪纳维亚语，但在SK变成SH之后才进了英语。

The guidance system isn't putting us on a direct collision course.

制导系统没有把我们带入碰撞航线。

I got my undergrad degree in directing.

我获得了导演本科学位。

Can you direct me to the elevator?

你能告诉我电梯在哪里吗?

Usually, the U.S. communicated with them through diplomacy, direct communications.

通常，美国通过外交手段，直接通信与他们沟通。

For example, a content provider like Netflix is in direct competition with Comcast, which owns NBC Universal and controls access to the Internet for more than 20 million customers.

举例来说，一家像Netflix网络内容提供商就会和康卡斯特形成直接竞争，因为康卡斯特拥有美国国家广播环球公司，并且还控制着超过两千万人消费者网络接入权。

Porter McConnell directs the Financial Transparency Coalition.

波特·麦康奈尔是财政透明度联盟负责人。

We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education -- that of direct tuition or schooling.

因此，我们要在从一直考虑整个教育过程中辨认出一种比较正规教育--直接教育或者学校教育。

I applaud the graduates for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.

我为在座各位毕业生而喝彩，你们拿到学位可比我轻松多了。

The vote for the presidency is not direct.

总统选举不是民众直接投票。

Much of the criticism is directed at the British Airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving London.

众多指责焦点是英国机场管理局。该机构运营着七家大型机场，其中三家在伦敦。

To really be honest and really be direct.

坦诚直接地与他们进行交流。

Generally, if you aren't sure, it's better to be less direct.

通常来说，如果你不确定，最好还是委婉些。

Okay, so there is a direct contradiction.

好，所以这里是直接矛盾。