4 And that was it. The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non-statement. My student's " whoa" ! was exceeded only by my head-shaking distress.

没了。所有希腊文明和罗马建筑的辉煌居然囊括于一个浓缩的、不完整的语句之！我的学生以" 哇！" 来示她的惊叹，我只能以摇比之更强烈的忧虑。

Given the patchiness of official data, this is hard to prove.

考虑到官方数据的不完整性，所以这很难证实情况是否如官员所说。

And so the brain searches for a way to process that incomplete equation.

于是大脑会寻找一个处理不完整等式的方法。

Sometimes you don't need to give your whole signature, and they'll ask you to initial.

有时您不需要提供完整的签名， 他们会要求您签名。

No bucket list is complete without a visit to this remote island nation.

如果没有去这个偏远的岛国，那你的遗愿清单都是不完整的。

It's simply built entire islands that didn't exist a decade ago.

只是通过建造十年前根本不存在的完整岛屿。

The truth is an incomplete picture is still incredibly useful.

事实上，一张不完整的图片仍然非常有价值。

He gives a partial answer, a preliminary answer, in Book One of the Politics where he tells us that only by living in a polis, and participating in politics, do we fully realize our nature as human beings.

他在《政治学》第一卷给出了一个不完整的初步答案。书他说，只有生活在，只有参与政治，我们才能完全实现人类的本性。

Staff at this New York City toy store had no idea they'd be getting this delivery of books and toys today, or that all of the orders would be incomplete.

这家纽约玩具店的员工不知道他们今天会收到这多书和玩具，也不知道所有订单都是不完整的。

But when we try to understand just how many of these crimes are being committed, we see that the data is incomplete for a lot of reasons.

但当我们试图了解到底有多少此类犯罪正在发生时，我们发现数据是不完整的，原因有很多。

The meaning is still there, even if all the words aren't.

即使整句话不完整，的也是这个意思。

As you can see, it's not complete.

你可以看到，它是不完整的。

Unfortunately, that conclusion puts too much weight on a useful, but flawed and incomplete, statistic.

不幸的是，这个结论过于强调一个有用但有缺陷且不完整的统计数据。

Okay, number thirty, details of a machine capable of interpreting incomplete information.

好的，第30题，能够解释不完整信息的机器的详细信息。

My lyrics cannot be complete without the chorus of truth.

没有真情的合唱，我的歌词是不完整的。

They're clumpy, and have bright stretches that make the rings look more like incomplete arcs.

它们成块状，且有延伸部分十分明亮，使这些环看起来更像不完整的弧线。

As time went on this incomplete feeling only worsened.

随着时间的推移，这种不完整的感觉只会越来越严重。

To learn about those things, we have to study those more common, less complete fossils.

要研究这些问题，我们需要研究那些更常见但不太完整的化石。

The Mystic Valley controversy helps illustrate that both arguments are misleading, or at least incomplete.

神秘谷的争议有助于说明这两种观点都具有误导性，或者至少是不完整的。

But obviously, our understanding of the world is flawed and incomplete.

但显然，我们对世界的理解是有缺陷的、不完整的。