Studies have shown that music can buoy mood, fend off depression and improve sleep.

研究表明，音乐以提振情绪，抑郁，改善睡眠。

They calibrate our immune systems, ward off pathogenic bacteria, even affect our weight.

它们帮助我们调整免疫系统、原菌、甚至还会影响到我们的体重。

Builders erected these walls for protection from invasion by those from the north.

筑长城是为了北方少数民族的入侵。

And could it borrow those lessons to weather fears of a recession?

它能借鉴这些经验，经济衰退的恐惧吗？

For another, Slack has rising competition to fend off.

另方面，Slack还要不断加剧的竞争。

The highway was not built according to today's strict standards to resist earthquakes.

那条高速公路并不是按照当今地震的严格标准造的。

You'll have to build your own defences against a world of complex realities that will insist on trying to intrude on you at the most inconvenient times.

你还需要为自己堵墙，这复杂的现实世界，这无时无刻不来打扰你的真实世界。

Our atmosphere guards Earth from most impacts, like a force field.

地球大气层很好的了大多数袭击像力场。

Brief stints of movement and exercise throughout the day can fend off those sedentary blues.

天中短暂的运动锻炼以久坐带来的死气沉沉。

For some of us, the problem lies with the insatiable addiction to chocolate.

对某些人来说，巧克力的诱惑无法。

Even if Mr Romney could devise a workable plan, overcoming political resistance is another matter.

即便罗姆尼以想出行的计划，要政治上的阻力又是另回事了。

That's enough to fend off economy-harming deflation.

这些就足以有害于经济的通货紧缩的影响了。

Seems that to beat the heat, it pays to be fleet.

看起来，为了酷热，就得跑得快。

We humans weren't built to withstand a landscape as hostile as this.

上帝创造人类时并没有想到我们要如此恶劣的环境。

No amount of genius can stop your dumb mediocre vacuous roots from digging into everything and everyone around you and draining them of any ability to fend you off.

再天才的人也无法阻止你愚蠢、平庸、空虚的根伸向你身边的切人与物，把他们你的能力吸干二净。

All we require, since nature did not dress us properly, is one garment to keep us warm, and some shelter from rain and wind.

因为大自然没有给我们配备合适的衣服，因此我们只需要件衣服来严寒，以及借以遮风避雨的住处。

So, why not take a break between meetings and soak up some rays to combat the tiredness and jet lag?

既然如此，何不在会议之间的空当偷闲，吸收点阳光，疲劳与时差呢?

Sleeping better may help fight off illness.

好的睡眠能够疾。

ALESCI : Here's why using so many antibiotics is a problem: Antibiotics are vital that can help us to defend from bacteria that make us sick, or even kill us.

这就是为什么使用这么多的抗生素是问题: 抗生素是至关重要的，它以帮助我们让我们生的细菌，甚至杀死我们自己。

She's built the sway back and forth to withstand the fury of stormy weather, to stand the test of time because storms are always coming.

她来回摆动， 以暴风雨的肆虐，经受住时间的考验， 因为暴风雨总是会来临。