There's no hard-and-fast line when it comes to achieving the ideal consistency.

不需要严格固定的比例也能煮到完美稠度。

So I admittedly am really bad at pretty much any and all rituals.

所以我承认，我真的不擅长何固定的模式。

Your major isn't necessarily set in stone.

你的专业不一定是固定不变的。

Even though they don't even acknowledge the existence of a fixed self, they do meditate to learn about the nature of existence, including the tangle of thoughts and emotions that we refer to as the self.

尽管他们甚至不承认固定自我的存在，但他们通过冥想来了解存在的本，包括我们称之为自我的思想和情感的混乱。

Telepathy could be called, indeed, the glue that holds the physical universe in precarious position, so that anyone can agree upon what a particular object is, or where it is at any given time.

心灵感应可以被称为，确实是，宇宙固定在不稳定的位置上的粘合剂，这样何人都可以同意一个特定的体是什么，或者它在何特定时间的位置。

Legend says the citizens became so drunk they started to dance with abandon in an unsteady gate. One of Tokushima's most famous dance teams is called the Ahou Ren.

有传说说，人们烂醉如泥，开始在一个不固定的门上没有何顾舞。德岛市最著名的一个舞蹈队叫做Ahou Ren。

Okay, Intelligence isn't exactly clear-cut, so maybe we can think of it as more like a flexible set of skills: A toolbox.

好了，智慧并不是非常清晰、明了的东西，因此，或许我们能认为它更接近一组不固定的技能组：工具箱。

Even friends who don't want permanent jobs are doing pretty well, hopscotching the country looking for evidence of ancient human activity, Mr. Oberdier said.

奥伯迪尔说，即使是那些不想要固定工作的朋友也过得很好，他们在全国各寻找远古人类活动的证据。

It was a capricious breeze, coming from the coast, and after it passed the sea became smooth.

是一种很不固定的微风，有一阵没一阵从大陆上吹来，它掠过了海面，立即飞向不知名的远方，海上波纹也就马上随着消失。

Most families... ...have... four, five, six, seven... there is no regular number of people that a family have. It depends on you.

大部分家庭。有。家庭成员的数量是不固定的。这个取决于你。

Nomads are groups of people who move place to place instead of living in one place all the time.

游牧民族是一些游牧迁徙，所居之处长年不固定的人群。

Almost everything, from currency to nuclear weapons, would be on the table, making for a fluid, uncertain picture.

从货币到核武器，几乎所有的事情都会摆上桌面谈，为了达成一个既不固定也不确定的共识而努力。

You don't need the fixed salaries or the stable careers.

你不需要固定的薪水或稳定的职业。

(eerie tone) Number two is an unhealthy fixation.

（ 怪异的语气）第二个是不健康的固定。

Maybe you work a job with irregular hours.

也许你有一份不固定工作时间的工作。

Why did you not take a fixed rate mortgage?

你为什么不选择固定利率的抵押贷款呢？

It is so great for, you know, really an in-between sleeper.

它非常适合，你知道的，那种睡觉姿势不固定的人。

There's no number of items to strive for with minimalism.

极简主义并不追求某种固定的品数量。

He knew of no fixed policy or conspiracy.

他不知道有什么固定的政策或阴谋。

Sara, you wrote a companion column for this cover story about your daughter actually kind of pining for a time when phones weren't omnipresent. How did being a parent affect how you came to this story?

萨拉（Sara），您为这个封面故事写了一个伴侣专栏，讲述了您的女儿实际上是在手机不清晰的时候固定的。成为父母如何影响您如何进入这个故事？