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复杂
Complex
Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.
无论什么时候设计的东西很复杂,它都是为了让你保持简单。
People are so complex. They want to hear the truth, but they want you to lie to them.
人是如此复杂。他们想听真话,但他们想让你对他们撒谎。
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
很多广告都是这样写的:首先,要对自己有一个复杂的认识。
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
有很多关于复杂主题的真实陈述,它们太长了,不适合放在幻灯片上。
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
特立尼达可能看起来很复杂,但对任何了解它的人来说,它是一个简单、殖民、庸俗的社会。
I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.
我觉得有责任继续为黑人女性创造复杂的角色,尤其是年轻的黑人女性。
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
写一本儿童读物意味着你不能写出冗长的故事或有复杂的性格发展。
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
没有什么是完美的。生活是混乱的。人际关系是复杂的。结果是不确定的。人是非理性的。
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
所有的生物都是粗糙的,因为它们不可避免地会做一些比人们想象的要复杂得多的事情。
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
今天的嘻哈音乐很聪明,很有见地。他们能在很短的时间内传达复杂的信息,这是非常了不起的。
I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.
我不让别人利用我。这就是为什么我喜欢我生命中的一小部分人。在我的生活中,人越多,事情就越复杂,所以我尽量把它控制在最低限度。
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
霍尔与奥茨的歌曲创作看似复杂。当你听这首歌的时候,有一些关键的变化会从你身边溜走,因为它们是如此的天衣无缝和巧妙。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时,真理就会受到相当大的歪曲,而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单,假设变成教条,相对变成绝对。
The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.
除了北欧人之外,“劣等情结”如今已扩展到整个欧洲。
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
物理学变得如此复杂,以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上,要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间,以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。
If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.
如果你想解决非常复杂的问题,你将不得不让机器自己解决很多细节,而这些细节是我们无法理解的。
I must be very complex, judging by the number of days determined to define me.
我一定很复杂,从决定定义我的天数来判断。