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1·Photography did indeed make certain kinds of painting obsolete — the daguerreotype virtually did away with the portrait miniature.

摄影确实使某些种类的绘画过时了——银版照相几乎使微型肖像消失了。

2·As a parent trainer I am now dealing with helicopter parents—the ones who take away all the difficulties and make it smooth sailing for their kids.

作为一名家长培训师，我现在面对的是直升机家长——他们会为孩子排除所有的困难，让一切顺利进行。

3·Most of these things don’t have to be dealt with straight away, so turn off instant notifications if these make you click through and waste another half hour replying and checking around.

其中绝大多数的事并不需要立刻处理，所以在不停切换、检查和回复浪费掉你一个又一个半小时之前，关掉这些软件和即时提醒。

4·Death is ugly, and we cannot-indeed, should not-try to make it palatable or explain it away with pious platitudes.

死亡是令人厌恶的，而我们不能——确实不应该——尝试使其成为愉快的事，或用伪善的陈词滥调对其加以解释。

5·Different parents will have different approaches, so make sure that your child takes away with them respect that they can teach their own children.

不同的家长会有不同的方式，因此确保你的孩子不要失去他们教育他们自己的孩子的那份重视。

6·Make the wrong choices and we will wind up with a fortress society of small bands of wealthy people barricaded away from a world of miserable poverty.

如果做出错误的选择，我们的未来将是一个少数富人躲在避难所中与世隔绝，绝大多数人外面悲惨受难的社会。

7·If you make a conscious decision to begin each day with a positive outlook, negative conditions at work can't take that away from you.

假如你作出一个理智的决定去用一个积极的展望开始每一天，工作中消极的的情况就会远离你。

8·Touch screens make computing feasible in new places, especially public ones, by doing away with keyboards, which can get gummed up with grime or spilled drinks.

触摸屏使计算在新的场所更简单易用，尤其是公共场所，由于没有键盘而不必担心染上污垢和碰到打翻的饮料。

9·Far away, I can just make out the black bulk of the Chenoua, rooted in the hills around the village, moving with a slow and heavy rhythm until finally it crouches in the sea.

我能模模糊糊地看见遥远的西纳瓦山黑黢黢的轮廓。西纳瓦山和环绕小村的小山相连，以缓慢而沉重的节奏绵延起伏，一直延展到大海。

10·Do away with death and you do away with the need for birth: in fact if you went on breeding, you would finally have to kill old people to make room for young ones.

如果没有死亡，你也就抛掉了出生的需要：事实上，如果你不断地繁殖生育，最终就必须要使老年人死亡，为新生儿留出生存的空间。