1、"The thing you have to remember about domesticated animals," she responded, "is that people began keeping them because they, in fact, had a purpose." They worked.(“对于家养的动物，你要记住一点，”她回应道：“人们一开始之所以要把它们养起来，实际上都有某种动机。”)
2、One thing I do know: I won't have an excuse to not blog about something just because I didn't have a laptop handy.(但有一点我知道，我不会仅仅因为没有一个手持的笔记本电脑而找一个不写博客的理由。)
3、I have to be honest, when you told us we had to write about a furniture company, it didn't sound like the kind of thing that would interest me, but since then, I've changed my mind.(我必须诚实地说，当你告诉我们要写一家家具公司时，它听起来并不是我会感兴趣的那类东西，但从那以后，我改变了主意。)
4、The awesome thing about being a freelancer is that you don't have to meet your clients in person.(作为一名自由职业者，最棒的事就是你不需要亲自去见客户。)
5、I have an idea.Don't worry about a thing.(我有个想法。什么事儿都不用担心。)
6、The thing to understand is this is a relative statistic, so if you're talking about a society where people don't have many cars and TVs, then the proportion will be quite high.(事情是要认识，这是一个相对的统计，因此，如果你在谈论的社会里，人们不会有很多汽车和电视，然后比例将很高。)
7、Well,on the body view,we have to say the same thing about being a person.(从身体角度来看，也能给作为人同样的说法。)
8、Speaking about her role on the committee Michelle Obama said: "The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it.(谈到她在委员会中的角色，米歇尔·奥巴马说：“如果有足够的时间和金钱，那么艺术就不仅仅是一种美好的让人不得不拥有或者不得不参与的一件事了。”)
9、She doesn't have much of a sense of humour about the vegetarian thing, but then, why should she?(她对于这拿素食者开涮的玩笑没有什么幽默感，但为什么她要有呢？)
10、The cool thing about this strategy is that it lets fans have a sense of ownership of the film.(这些策略最酷的地方在于它让影迷们产生了一种电影的主人翁的意识。)
11、The other cool thing about it is when you have a family reunion like that you know that there's going to be a big change involved.(另外就是在这样好像家人重逢的时候也清楚知道很多事情都不一样了。)
12、The next thing we might want to ask about a plant like that is what chances does it have to survive into the future.(我们对那类植物可能提出的下一个问题是，它存活到未来的机率有多大。)
13、So many, in fact, that I spent almost the entire evening trying to write a post about them, until I realized I'd have to break the whole thing down into several pieces.(事实上，我有太多的想法以至于我花了整个晚上尝试写出来，直到我意识到不得不把整个事情分解成几个部分。)
14、One thing that physicists have learned about complex systems, such as stock markets, earthquakes, and forest fires, to name just a few, is that when changes occur they are scale invariant.(对于象股市、地震和森林火灾等复杂的系统，物理学家们了解的一点是，当变化发生时，它们的规模不变。)
15、A cradle is such a nice homely thing to have about a house.(摇篮在家庭中是一件很好的家常用品。)
16、The good thing about the Internet is that it offers a vast amount of information to jobhunters, especially once they have secured an interview.(网络很好的一点就是它为求职者提供了海量的讯息，这一优点在获得面试后尤其明显。)
17、Can we have a debate about marriage in which all parties are talking about exactly the same thing?(我们能讨论下婚姻吗，所有讨论婚姻的聚会都是在讲相同的事吗？)
18、The nice thing about it is that we can really have a knob, if you like, which we can control to adjust the rate at which we inject these particles.(非常棒的是我们真的可以得到一个能控制调节粒子注入大气速率的大球体。)
19、Over time, its members have learned a thing or two about responsibility.(随着时间的推移，其成员了解了一些有关责任的事情。)
20、It's never a bad thing to learn as much as you can about the computer that you're working on, nor is it bad to have fun in the process.(了解关于您所使用的计算机的尽可能多的信息，绝不是件坏事，并且还可以从这个过程中获得乐趣。)
21、When you've been running marathons for 25 years and have an advanced degree in exercise physiology, you should eventually learn a thing or two about training.(当你跑了25年的马拉松，并且在体育锻炼方面取得了一定的等级，你应该多多少少会了解有关训练的事情。)
22、But she's kept her wits about her for so long-who would have imagined such a thing!(但她老早就长着心眼的——谁会想到会有这种事！)
23、But when a lot of people lie about the same thing-for example, their weight-that can have serious consequences.(但是很多人对相同的事儿也撒谎——比如，他们的体重——这样就会有严重的后果了。)
24、Most people have a thing or two in their lives that they're deeply passionate about.(大多数人在一生中只会对一两件事情倾注全部的热情。)
25、Instead it is more helpful to try to accept what happened, look for positive aspects and - if it is a small thing - have a laugh about it.(相反，试图去接受发生的事情会更有益，寻找积极的一面，如果是小事情就微笑而过。)
26、The whole discussion about the costs, ROI or marketing of SOA boils down to one thing: Business and IT have to adopt a common mindset - a service-oriented mindset.(整个关于SOA的成本、ROI或市场营销的讨论，总结成一句话：业务和IT必须达成共识——一种面向服务的共识。)
27、The most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn't have to be a genius to set its wheels in motion.(然而，语言最非凡之处在于，一个人不必成为天才也能驾驭语言。)
