英语六级真题中的不定式多功能

Contact the airport staff to find our missing bag.

联系机场工作人员以找到我们丢失的包。

We must be willing to stay alone at least for some time in order to plot our own course.

我们必须愿意至少独处一段时间，以便规划自己的人生道路。

W: We are down to two candidates for one position, and we need to decide by the end of the day in order to finalize this whole procedure.

W：我们只剩下两个候选人竞争一个职位，并且我们需要在今天结束前做出决定，以便完成整个流程。

To explore this question, we showed 15-month-old babies one of two things—an experimenter working hard to achieve two different goals, or an experimenter who effortlessly reached each goal.

为了探究这个问题，我们向15个月大的婴儿展示了两种情况中的一种——一位实验者努力实现两个不同的目标，或者一位实验者毫不费力地达成每个目标。

To find out, a new study examined whether stray dogs could understand human gestures.

为了查明，一项新研究考察了流浪狗是否能够理解人类手势。

Imagine you're an alien sent to Earth to document the behaviour of the mammals inhabiting the planet.

想象你是一个被派往地球记录栖息在这个星球上的哺乳动物行为的外星人。

It may not be possible to change your own genes, but can you train yourself to need less sleep?

改变你自己的基因可能是不可能的，但你能训练自己需要更少的睡眠吗？

When people talk about the brain, they sometimes say things like "It is important to exercise your brain" or "To stay mentally fit, you have to give your brain a workout."

当人们谈论大脑时，他们有时会说诸如“锻炼你的大脑很重要”或“为了保持精神健康，你必须让你的大脑得到锻炼。”之类的话。

To test this, we asked workers to complete an online survey and rank how much time they spent cyberloafing, checking non-work emails and shopping.

为了测试这一点，我们要求员工完成一项在线调查，并对他们花在网络闲逛、查看非工作邮件和购物上的时间进行排名。

Protection policies were originally designed to suppress bad development and boost historic preservation in our urban areas.

保护政策最初被设计用来抑制不良发展并促进我们城市地区的历史保护。

The 2004 paper was specifically designed to address those concerns.

2004年的那篇论文是专门为解决那些担忧而设计的。

Referring to a line from Jurassic Park(侏罗纪公园), he adds: "People are too busy thinking about what they can do to think about whether they should do it."

提及《侏罗纪公园》中的一句台词，他补充道：“人们太忙于思考他们能做什么，而不去思考他们是否应该做这件事。”

Social distancing is millions of people making hundreds of sacrifices to keep the elderly alive.

社交距离是数百万人做出数百种牺牲以让老年人活着。

Take some drug to relieve the side effect.

服用一些药物来缓解副作用。

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

马特·鲁比诺夫指导“我是第一”，一个去年十月发起的旨在接触这一特定学生群体的非营利组织。

We need to expose ourselves to more art and literature in order to tell the superior from the inferior.

我们需要让自己接触更多的艺术和文学作品，以便区分优劣。

To win, players must use fake coins to purchase everyday grocery items from various shops around the board, and give the other players who visit their shop the correct change.

要想获胜，玩家必须使用仿制硬币，在棋盘周围的各家商店购买日常杂货，并为光顾自己商店的其他玩家找回正确的零钱。

While younger children should not be on platforms where 13 is the minimum age, it is neither practical nor desirable to imagine a world in which teenagers are prevented from accessing the platforms and messaging systems that the adults around them use to organise their lives.

虽然年龄较小的儿童不应使用最低年龄要求为 13 岁的平台，但设想一个禁止青少年访问身边成年人用来安排日常生活的平台和消息系统的世界，既不现实，也不可取。

What does the woman advise people to do in their work?

这位女士建议人们在工作中做些什么？

The only effective measure to end it would be to make bankers personally liable for losses, but no government has ever passed such a law, and no single government could do so on its own, since this would immediately cause their entire national banking sector to move wholesale to another jurisdiction.

要结束这种局面，唯一有效的措施就是让银行家对损失承担个人责任。但迄今没有任何政府通过过这样的法律，单个政府也无法独自采取这一措施，因为这会立即导致本国整个银行业整体迁往另一个司法管辖区。

To overcome this kind of internal obstacle, recall your other positive traits and personality characteristics.

为了克服这种内在障碍，回忆你其他的积极特质和人格特征。

Cities need to monitor and update signal light time schedules at least every two years to keep these systems effective.

城市需要至少每两年监控和更新信号灯时间安排，以保持这些系统的有效性。

To combat this sense of impersonal sameness, travelers are taking advantage of in-home hospitality or Bed and Breakfast arrangements.

为了对抗这种冷漠的雷同感，旅行者正在利用居家招待或民宿安排。

"Automation systems designed to make the process more idiot-proof are trying to bridge that gap," says Stefan Chomka, the editor of Restaurant magazine.

“旨在使流程更加防呆的自动化系统正试图弥合这一差距，”《餐厅》杂志编辑斯特凡·乔姆卡说道。

To offset this bias, deliberately refocus your thinking on the gains so you can more objectively weigh the alternatives.

为了抵消这种偏见，故意将你的思维重新聚焦于收益，以便你能更客观地权衡这些选择。

The study we're looking at today aims to give us a better understanding of how good electronic books are for young children.

我们今天正在研究的这项研究旨在让我们更好地理解电子书籍对幼儿有多好。

People raced to address increasing traffic problems along with the expansion of cities and traffic.

人们争相解决日益增长的交通问题，以及随城市和交通扩张而来的问题。

It is ideal, then, for people to start exercising when they are children or adolescents, and it is good to maintain an active lifestyle at all times regardless of your age.

那么，对于人们来说，在他们还是儿童或青少年时开始锻炼是理想的，并且无论你的年龄如何，在任何时候保持积极的生活方式都是有益的。

In this setting, individuals give up their own interests to serve the common good.

在这种环境中，个体放弃自身利益以服务于共同利益。

Perhaps in order to explore self-awareness further, we should stop looking at responses to the mirror as a decisive test.

也许为了进一步探索自我意识，我们应该停止将对镜子的反应视为决定性测试。

While there are some existing technologies to purify indoor air, they can be inefficient, expensive or produce harmful by-products.

尽管存在一些净化室内空气的现有技术，但它们可能效率低下、价格昂贵或产生有害副产品。

A test designed to test machines is now used by machines to test humans.

一个旨在测试机器的测试现在被机器用来测试人类。

The illusion of control can also interfere with our best judgment, leading us to overestimate our ability to control events and attain a positive outcome.

控制的错觉也会干扰我们最好的判断，导致我们高估自己控制事件和获得积极结果的能力。

While letting go can be difficult, it will free up your time, energy, and mental space to imagine new possibilities and pursue new opportunities.

虽然放手可能是困难的，但它将腾出你的时间、精力和心理空间去想象新的可能性和追求新的机会。

They have come to see the consequences of racial discrimination.

他们已经来看到种族歧视的后果。

To counteract this bias, consider your situation and make a simple two-column list of what's in your control and what's not.

为了抵消这种偏见，考虑你的情况并制作一个简单的两列清单，列出你能控制的和不能控制的内容。

But for your well-being, it's important to learn how to distinguish quitting too soon and clinging to a losing course of action.

但是，为了你的福祉，学会如何区分过早放弃和执着于一个注定失败的行动方针是很重要的。

It is best to set boundaries in a way that takes into account the individual's underlying reasons for doing what they are doing to avoid unnecessary conflict and more stress.

最好以一种考虑到个人做他们正在做的事情的根本原因为方式来设定界限，以避免不必要的冲突和更多的压力。

Although we may be living in a society that treasures the independent pursuit of achievement, having people to support and love you on the way is far more important than any end result.

尽管我们可能生活在一个珍视独立追求成就的社会中，但在这条路上有支持你和爱你的人比任何最终结果都重要得多。

Airlines inventory their mishandled baggage, and many use a database to match the contents with owners' descriptions.

航空公司清点他们的处理不当行李，并且许多公司使用数据库来将物品内容与所有者的描述进行匹配。

Consequently, individuality and autonomy are sacrificed to maintain the unity of the group.

因此，个性和自主性被牺牲以维持群体的统一性。

This means simply that it is possible to observe ourselves having a craving, or a happy thought, or even a scary emotion, without reacting in the moment in a way that amplifies the feeling or sends the mind spiraling off into thinking about old memories or anticipating events.

这仅仅意味着，我们有可能观察到自己正产生一种渴望、一个愉快的想法，甚至一种可怕的情绪，而不会在当下以放大这种感觉或让思绪陷入回忆旧记忆或预期事件的方式做出反应。

Many fields will be a hybrid, where some humans find a lucky place, but most of the work is done by computers, like in manufacturing today, where much of the work is accomplished by robots, but some humans must be there to oversee the machines.

许多领域将是混合体，在这些领域中一些人找到幸运的位置，但大部分工作由计算机完成，就像如今的制造业一样，在制造业中大部分工作由机器人完成，但一些人必须在那里监督机器。

As students, we use this excuse to shrug off losing people who we once thought to be loved ones.

作为学生，我们用这个借口来摆脱失去那些我们曾经认为是亲人的人。

The system allowed police officers to move from the middle of the street to a corner.

该系统允许警察从街道中间移动到一个角落。

When someone is giving advice in order to make themselves feel more powerful, there is underlying anxiety to their behavior that recipients of the advice tend to notice.

当有人为了让自己感觉更有权力而提供建议时，他们的行为中存在潜在的焦虑，建议的接受者往往会注意到这种焦虑。

In the early 2000s, researcher Eddie Yoon conducted a survey to ascertain Americans' attitudes to cooking.

在21世纪初，研究员Eddie Yoon进行了一项调查以确定美国人对烹饪的态度。

The author suggests that one should direct their thoughts to the gains of quitting timely so as to move on.

作者建议人们应该将他们的思想导向及时戒烟的好处，以便继续前进。

So, to gain access to an automated service that will benefit financially from my input, I first have to do some unpaid labor to help improve the performance of autonomous vehicles.

所以，为了获得一项能从我的输入中获得经济利益的自动化服务，我首先必须做一些无偿劳动来帮助提高自动驾驶汽车的性能。

An effective simulation can be better than experience as a learning tool because it accelerates time, compresses space, and unlike reality, is specifically designed to maximize participant learning.

作为一种学习工具，有效的模拟可能比经验更好，因为它加快时间、压缩空间，并且与现实不同，是专门设计用来最大化参与者学习效果的。