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Takes
Oh yes. There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late.
噢,是的。有比独处更糟糕的事情，但往往需要几十年的时间才能意识到这一点，而大多数时候，当你意识到这一点时已经太晚了，没有什么比这更糟糕的了。
It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
这是一个非常非常大的优势，因为了解我们可能做出的更改需要时间，而制定设置和了解关于新机器的一切都需要时间。
When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
当一个公司面临一个问题时，它总是采取一个立场和一个决定，但同时它想要确保它能从中学到什么，它能做什么改进。
Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
我认为，任何有工作需要带他们离开家的人，都能理解保持一致性的困难，不仅与你的家人和你爱的人，而且与你的朋友。
Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.
我想每个演员都有自己喜欢的戏份。有些演员喜欢在一个场景里演一整天，有些演员想拍两场。我个人喜欢四个。
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构，而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡，播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
你若知道每种谷种你种了多少亩，就可以问那地的土产有多少亩可以种，也可以数一数四分之一种的子粒，便知道子粒的结果，和应当怎样了结。
You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
如果你真的想保持身材，你不需要昂贵的课程和各种奇怪的设备。有很多非常经济的方法可以做到这一点，它只是需要一个时间承诺，即使这意味着每天比其他家庭成员早起半个小时，因为这是你唯一的时间。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
我们大概需要四五天的时间来制作一张专辑。
Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
每个人都有一个杀手故事。讲这个故事不需要天赋，只需要经验。
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
一旦他的妻子入睡，只需轻微的核爆炸就能把她吵醒。
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
好的构图就像一座悬索桥——每条线都增加了力量，却没有带走任何东西。
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
喜剧需要非常特殊的技巧，特殊的技巧。
But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.
但我想说的是，我只是想大胆地朝着我的梦想前进，就像梭罗说的那样，看看它会把我带到哪里。