【2011年Text 4】Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping,baby-size holes in their lives.
【2005年Text 1】l However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
【2011年Text 4】l But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
【2011年Text 3】l The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more(and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.
【2002年Text 2】l What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain’s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented—and human perception far more complicated—than previously imagined.
【2011年Text 3】l In fact, the way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketing’s impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.
【2011年Text 3】l We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.
【2005年Text 2】l Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn’t know for sure?
还记得科学家们认为吸烟会致人死亡,而怀疑者们却坚持认为我们对此尚不能确定的那些年吗?(关系副词when引导的定语从句修饰先行词all those years)
【2011年Text 1】l Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.
【2010年Text 2】l Now the nation’s top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.
【2008年Text 2】l Other models exist that are hybrids of these three, such as delayed open-access, where journals allow only subscribers to read a paper for the first six months, before making it freely available to everyone who wishes to see it.