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建筑
Building
I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.
我不这么认为,因为维珍已经是一个全球品牌。像亚马逊这样的品牌不得不花费数亿英镑来打造自己的品牌,而维珍已经在全球闻名。
Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
建立一家成功的公司(或过上幸福的生活),不是要接受别人的哲学,而是要忠于自己对世界的信念,并从错误中吸取教训。
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
这并不是说要改造一个对颜色有不良品味的人的客厅。这是关于修复历史建筑,并向社区灌输自豪感,这可以通过设计新的公共空间和社交聚会场所来实现。
Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.
在我们国家的学校里,玩耍正受到攻击,而缩短课间休息时间只是问题的一部分。作业正在增加。城市正在建设没有操场的新学校。出于安全方面的考虑,学校开始禁止学生在操场上奔跑、追逐、踢足球。
The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.
艾森豪威尔大厦——家具搭配不当;一切都是糟糕的装饰和质量。每个人都在低头看他们的黑莓手机。这真是一个疯狂的,不匹配的环境。但从外观上看,它是一座粉刷过的华丽建筑。这是一个有趣的对比。
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
我很清楚站在高楼顶上或高处往下看,然后说:‘哦,我的上帝。每次我写这样的场景时,我都试图进入那个地方。当然,当我在写动作场景的时候,我感到很兴奋,我的心跳非常快。我很投入。
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In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
在任何一家这样的餐厅里,厨师都处于同样的位置,建立关系。
In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.
在我住在派克大街的那栋楼里,有十个人可以买下洋基队,但是他们没有一个人能把球击出洋基球场。
As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.
作为一个社会,我们没有花那么多时间来建设公民互联网。
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
如果我想做衣服,或者我想做建筑,或者设计舞蹈,你都能做到——它们都在类似的设计保护伞下。
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
光,上帝的长女,是建筑中最主要的美。
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
当你在塑造一个角色的时候,或者至少当我在塑造一个角色的时候,你开始说,‘我怎样才能让人们喜欢他?’