A good speaker is able to anticipate an audience’s needs and concerns.

【anticipate】好的演讲者够预先考虑到听众的需求以及他们关注的事。

Because without some forethought into preserving our ecosystem, well, we could go the way of the dinosaurs.

因为如果没有预先考虑保护我们的生态系统，我们可蹈恐龙的覆辙。

So there are studies that show that

因此，有研究表明，预测或预见困难是非常非常要的环，因为这样你就不被突然出现的困难打个措手不及，对吧？当人们想到房时，他们通常只想到积极的一面，而不预先考虑可遇到的负面因素。然而，一旦他们真正开始行动时遭遇了这些负面因素带来的痛苦，这种经历就让他们感到意外。

I am talking about gender as an intentional forethought in every green project, every green investment, every green legislation.

我说的是性别是每个绿色项目、每项绿色投资、每项绿色立法中有意识的预先考虑。

And I think it's interesting because there's always going to be more variables on the day than you are able to account for.

我认为这很有趣，因为当天总有比你预先考虑到的更多的变数。

So with some research and some forethought about deal breakers, we really can narrow down the hundreds of possible colleges to just a few that we're actually excited about applying to.

因此，通过一些研究和对各种影响因素的预先考虑，我们真的可以将数百所可的大学缩小到我们真正想申请的那几所。