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person

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n. 人；身体；容貌，外表；人称
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The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.

I definitely feel things more strongly than the average person.

You can't just say, ‘Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off, Dr.Robison said.

On the other hand, indicators of a person's accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn't think that's the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

It varies from person to person.

It is essential to a person's future academic success.

It is an interaction between the person and the place, not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences.

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted -86 living ( ' , even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home.

A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.

When employees log in to their computers, they're shown a picture of one of their coworkers and asked to guess that person's name.

They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did not need to work hard to do well.

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

They vary from person to person.

They can affect a person's ability to get a job and qualification for benefits.

The first person I told was my mother.

The criticism the author received from his mother changed him as a person.

That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.

Many of these penalties are imposed regardless of the seriousness of the offense or the person's individual circumstances.

Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint ( ' , 印记 ) on you as a person.

And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person.

Kenyan police say one person was killed and 26 injured in an explosion at a bus station in central Nairobi.

"Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend," Soupios says.

A drug user is the person who takes the drug.

An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted living even if her children preferred it than in a nursing home.

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

But almost any drug, when it's misused, can make a person think he needs it all the time.

By this time it's too late, and the person is hooked.

Crowdfunding can be part of researchers’ efforts to reach the public, and people give because "they feel a connection to the person" who is doing the fundraising—not necessarily to the science.

Drug abuse is the use of a drug, legal or illegal, that hurts a person or someone close to him.

Either side of a person infected with flu, as well as those sitting one roe in font of or behind this individual, had about an 80 person chance of getting sick.

Everybody is making me out by a some sort of superhero, I'm just an ordinary person, and a father of two.

finally, she addresses self-respect and the notion that a person's sense of beauty must include more than how much a person weighs.

Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint on you as a person.

Having a person, instead of a computer, reach out to you is particularly important in combating that sense of isolation.

If a person stays in the same room the following night they tend to sleep more soundly.

I'm interested in how these things are expressions of that person, their ideas, and their interactions with the world.

Sometimes I don't really want to talk to the person.

That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.

The family turned to social media expressing their gratitude saying, "From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to deeply thank each and every person that stopped by!"

The first person I told was my mother.

The lawyer argued that it is wrong to execute a person for a crime he committed while he was a minor.

The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a "measured haste" to get big new things done while there is still time.

These are processes that you are developing so that you are able, over time, to tackle more interesting problems, more challenging problems 一 problems that require many people instead of one person, and many skills instead of one.

You're the only person you should be comparing yourself with.

Perhaps in the face of impersonal and intimidating globalization, a young person's family feels more like a friendly haven than an oppressive trap.

Another, discussing national politics, said, I feel like one person can't do that much, and I get the impression most people don't think a group of people can do that much.

No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.

We deal with the external factors that impact a person’s situation and outlook.

We can’t expect kids to turn off that admiration when the same person is selling sugar.

Social work is different from other professions, because we focus on the person and environment.

Operationally, you could think intimacy as you share secrets: you share information with this person that you don’t share with anybody else.

People's conception of a person has much to do with the way he or she is labeled.

Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

A person is judged by their worth.

Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murdervictims.

A high-tech test that can tell when a person is not telling the truth sounds too good to be true.

A person shouldn't buy an insurance protection that really isn't necessary.

A person, for example, who is allergic to cats would probably never become an animal doctor.

A selected person pours water or juice from the unity cup into a bowl.

As one person ironically put it in the comments section of Schwartz's online article, "As I was reading this very excellent article, I stopped at least half a dozen times to check my email.

Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.

But Elop was not the only person at fault.

But there's still someone who deserves scrutiny—the person holding the phone.

But with simultaneous interpreting, you start translating almost as soon as the other person starts speaking.

He points to a classic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University used functional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of people while concentrating on either socially relevant cue

I always tell people to make sure they're drinking enough fluids, which for the average person is 60 to 70 ounces a day, which translates into eight 8-ounce glasses of water or liquid per day.

I am the kind of person that if my personal life is hurting, I can go to work and the music will take over.

I'm sorry, do you mean to say, it's a real-life series about a real person?

In 2005, as the authors observe, real consumption per person in France was only 60% as high as the U.S., making it appear that Americans were economically much better off than the French on average.

It is a grim reality that you can have one person who only makes around 13,000 dollars a year, while across town another is making millions.

It's tough to quantify how good a person is at remembering.

Longevity statistics reveal that the average person doesn't last very long after retirement.

Machines also had difficulty adjusting for people who look a lot alike—either doppelgangers, whom the machine would have trouble identifying as two separate people, or the same person who appeared in different photos at different ages or in different ligh

No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.

Now, imagine the same dinner, but instead of checking their phone, the person belches—loudly.

Once one person looks at their phone, other people feel compelled to do the same, starting a chain reaction.

Operationally, you could think intimacy as you share secrets: you share information with this person that you don't share with anybody else.

That person then drinks from the cup and raises it high, saying "Harambee!" which means "Let's all pull together!" All repeat "Harambee!" seven times and each person drinks from the cup.

The average person turns on their phone 150 times every day.

The image which also contained novel descriptions of ants, fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it.

Then when the person doesn't turn out to be who they thought he or she was, they start thinking "Maybe I can change him or her".

Thus, body weight is not always the best indicator of health and a thin person still needs to eat well and exercise regularly.

"I'm a fashionable person, so now I'm back in my 3-inch heels, " she says.

Today, I'm going to talk about a very special kind of person.

While by no means perfect, it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality.

While the candle is being lit, a principle is recited; then each person present takes a turn to speak about the importance that principle has to himself or herself.

A coin is put into the cake, which signifies 预示 success in the new year for the person who receives it.

A group of people sitting in the hall stopped talking and stared at us.

A home environment in blue can help people reduce food intake.

A man should try to satisfy people around him.

A recent study of public opinion shows that in modern Britain people regard themselves socially different.

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

A website links people through books.

Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong gonk, says it regularly arranges quick getaways here for people living in Shanghai and Hong gonk.

According to a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

According to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

According to the Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

Advantages small talk can help people form new friendships.

After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

After receiving the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Anne Benedict went on to thank all the people who had helped in her career.

All around her, people were suffering, especially the elderly.

All the dogs sit, play, or run around while people drink coffee and eat sandwiches.

Although he is known to only a few people here, his reputation abroad is very great.

Although we may not be aware of chemicals like pheromones consciously, we give and receive loads of information through smell in every interaction with other people.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

An avalanche once closed the path, killing 63 people.

An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about.

And people have been warned not to go out of their homes — not if you walk on foot, at least — between 11 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before?

And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia.

And there are many people skating over there.

And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French republic since 1946.

Anger is a particularly strong feeling and Maybe people think that they have reasons to feel angry.

Another study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view "volunteer" as an important social role.

Another trend is off-site or virtual management, where teams of people linked by e-mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses.

Armed with this knowledge, they're able to carry out individually targeted campaigns to cheat people.

Around the world, people are adapting in surprising ways, especially in some poor countries.

As a child, few people guessed that he was going to be a famous scientist whose theories would change the world.

As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at work in people of all ages.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

As a result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing.

As a retired ear doctor, I heartily recommend TV ears to people with normal hearing as well as those with hearing loss.

As busy people, we are always looking for ways to save time and make our lives easier.

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

As shown here, Lainey can become excited about reading when presented with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

As soon as you get the answer you need, move on to the next person.

As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

As Tolstoy once said, "one can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."

As you approach people, be polite.

As you go through this book, you will find that each of the millions of people who lived through world war ii had a different experience.

At least the weather is similar, and the people aren't much different.

At the time, people did not have dishwashers in their homes.

At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

Before people retire, they usually plan to do a lot of great things, which they never had time to do while working.

Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on the New York time's website.

Body movements change the way people think.

Bookcrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the "real" and not the virtual (虚拟).

Bruce Pederson, the managing director of Bookcrossing, says, "the two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read."

Bruce Peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.

Building snowmen helped people develop their skill and thought.

Building snowmen was a way for people to express themselves.

Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement.

But driverless car ownership could increase as the prices drop and more people become comfortable with the technology.

But he is also working at a far more fundamental level: his staff show people how to make floating gardens and fish ponds prevent starvation during the wet season.

But he said that they were all nice people and he couldn't imagine any of them had done that.

But it seems that many people don't cook fish at home.

But now a study has found it really does help people nod off—if it is milked from a cow at night.

But one thing is certain, all people encounter mountains in their life.

But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars.

But the person who tries to do something and fails is a lot better off than the person who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

But through all this, Hannah still has the normal life of a Winnipeg schoolgirl, except that she pays regular visits to homeless people.

By contrast, there are some people who actually enjoy work.

By the day of the show, more than 300 people had said they would attend.

Campers, in my eyes, were people who enjoyed insect bites, ill-cooked meals, and uncomfortable sleeping bags.

China today attracts a worldwide readership, which shows that more and more people all over the world want to learn about China.

Companies spend millions hiring top business people.

Compliment (赞美) the other person to make him or her feel comfortable, and ask questions to show interest.

Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and were too violent for use at the table.

Considering how much time people spend in offices, it is important that work spaces be well designed.

Cooking is a burden for many people.

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.

Different cultures have different ways of managing people.

Donations began flooding in from hundreds of people.

Don't handle it too lightly, as people can be offered, especially if your error suggests a misunderstanding of their culture.

Dunn believes that people who reach out to strangers feel a significantly greater sense of belonging, a bond with others.

During the breeding (繁殖) season, between April and June, they are very active at night and very noisy and people can't sleep.

Each person, no matter who they are, has psychological imbalances.

Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the "digital divide" between the rich countries and the poor countries.

Even worse, the amount of fast food that people eat goes up.

Every day in our work, we are inspired by the people we meet doing extraordinary things to improve the world.

Every year about 40, 000 people attempt to climb kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

Every year more than 10, 000 people head for the city of albuquerque, new mexico.

Every year since 1818, the people of Zurich, Switzerland, celebrate the beginning of spring by blowing up a snowman.

Excuse yourself and let the person know you're busy so they can get the hint than when the door is closed, you're not to be disturbed.

Explain your frustrations calmly and sensibly—see it as an opportunity to clear up any difficulties you may have with this person.

Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.

Failure is probably the most exhausting experience a person ever has.

Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook.

For Dutch people, Hilversum is all about textile and media industries, and modern architecture.

For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships.

For example, Russian, French, and Spanish persons may use silence to show agreement between parties about the topic under discussion.

For example, she received the 2007 Brick Award recognizing the efforts of young people to change the world.

For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement； you don‘t “ get” success but become it.

Part of the fame of Allen‘s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person， they reveal him.

Nevertheless， as any biographer knows， a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.

However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

By all accounts he was a freethinking person, and a courageous one, and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding, let alone the performance, of his works.

This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

Are you looking to refresh your image or pivot it? For one person, the goal may be to be taken more seriously and enhance their professional image.

It does not include important factors such as environmental quality or education outcomes – all things that contribute to a person’s sense of well-being.

A Canadian study found that children as young as 14 months can differentiate between a credible person and a dishonest one.

Consider the person that you re dealing with in advance and what will get you to your desired outcome.

Conversations are links, which means when you have a conversation with a new person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.

For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on: and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initi

For instance, failure can help you discover how strong a person you are.

For one person, the goal may be to be taken more seriously and enhance their professional image.

If appropriate public policies were in place to help all women—whether CEOs or their children's caregivers—and all families, Sandberg would be no more newsworthy than any other highly capable person living in a more just society.

In a social situation, eye contact with another person can show that you are paying attention in a friendly way.

It's a problem all of us face: you have limited time with the person that you want to talk with and you want to make this talk memorable.

Jokes that work one person won't necessarily land with another, So, adapt your style accordingly to type.

Knowing the results of Epley's study, it makes sense that many people hate photographs of themselves viscerally—on one level, they don't even recognize the person in the picture as themselves.

Personality can affect how a person reacts to eye contact.

Suppose you are in a room with someone you don't know and something within you says" I want to talk with this person"—this is something the mostly happens with all of us.

The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

When you meet a person for the first time, make an effort to find the things which you and that person have in common so that you can build the conversation from that point.

You all came into a conversation where you first met the person, but after some time you may have met again and have forgotten their name.