A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

  • -- Pam Brown 帕姆·布朗

猫可以在你的膝盖上保持一种蜷缩睡意的姿势,直到你几乎站起来。直到最后一分钟,她还希望你问心无愧,重新安定下来。

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The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

我们越快摆脱游说体系,对我们所有人就越有利。我不认为在今天这个时代,有这些点头和眨眼,公开和非正式的简报是站得住脚的。

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

我们正在努力弥补这些其他因素,通过我们的重新设计过程和通过公开的筹款活动提高成本效率,以更好地支持研究生教育。

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

你必须在希望和绝望之间保持良好的平衡。说到底,这都是一个平衡的问题。

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

我们能做的最冒险的事情就是维持现状。