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They can only afford small apartments.

There's only one problem with the cliché ( ' , 套话).

The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

Worry only about things that you can control.

They were so busy working that they only ate simple meals.

They are dangerous only if programmers are careless.

So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together.

It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machines, if only we can find a way to set out human values as clear rules.

Jody has a Ph.D.in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

They're also only a single layer in what should ideally be a many-sided approach to securing your home, one that includes common sense things like sound locks and proper exterior lighting at night.

The helpless ones believe intelligence is a fixed characteristic: you have only a certain amount, and that's that.

Still, gamification only stands to become more popular, he says, as more and more people come into the workforce who are familiar with the structures and expressions of digital games.

Or maybe the reward of a half-sized portion could be a half-sized dessert to be claimed only on a future date.

Only a very small proportion of burglaries are committed by technical means.

I realized these different types of students not only explain their failures differently, but they also hold different theories of intelligence.

Forty-eight of the students received instruction in study skills only, whereas the others attended a combination of study skills sessions and classes in which they learned about the growth mind-set and how to apply it to schoolwork.

Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mind-set workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group.

But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.

Both kids and adults felt satisfied with only half of their meal portions.

This boosts the local economy considerably because tourists not only buy crafts, but they also use the restaurants and hotels and other services of the area.

You only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub ( ' , 中心 ): rich people and nerds ( ' , 痴迷科研的人 ).

Within the US, towns have become startup hubs if and only if they have both rich people and nerds.

Where the penalties are not a must, they should be imposed only if the facts of a case support it.

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

Surely, the American ideal of second chances should not be reserved only for the rich and powerful.

Still, I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly.

Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.

Not only is this a boring and awful way to treat children, it makes no sense educationally.

It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.

And the only remedy for that is practice.

Administrators seem to believe that only hard work will lead children to their educational goals.

This was accomplished through the dark green packaging that not only differed from the competitors, but also suggested freshness and richness in vitamins.

His mother, who had only a third-grade education, worked two jobs cleaning bathrooms.

A 4-year-old may 27 protest that a sister has more fruit juice when it is only the shapes of the glasses that differ, not the 28 amount of juice.

A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that process.

About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.

After four months, the patients using the computerized CBT programs had no improvement in over the patients who were only getting usual care from their doctors.

All other passengers had only a very slim chance of getting sick according to the findings.

Also, certain types of bacteria are extremely harmful, and it takes only a small number to make you sick.

Also, remember a successful ending is not the only thing worthy of a celebration.

Although it is possible that only people who are cognitively healthy would pursue such activities, those who read newspapers or magazines or played music did not show similar benefits.

Among college graduates, in 2014 46% were married or living with a partner, and only 19% were living with their parents.

Among human populations, culture not only affects the way we live, but also writes itself into our genes, affecting who we are.

And only 5 percent of our food is plant-based food.

And so far, this green sea slug is the only known animal that can be truly considered solar-powered, although some animals do exhibit some plant-like behaviors.

Anyway, I'm only going to be there for a year, doing my masters, so it's pretty good.

As if you needed another reason to hate the gym, it now turns out that exercise can exhaust not only your muscles, but also your eyes.

Breakfast isn't the only meal we should be getting right.

But the word "gamification" and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mindset workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block— I was not able to produce anything for three years.

his mother, who had only a third-grade education, worked two jobs cleaning bathrooms.

I realized these different types of students not only explain their failures differently, but they also hold different "theories" of intelligence.

In 2014, only 71% of 18- to -year-old men were employed.

In coeducational schools, girls are often expected to succeed only in humanities or the art.

In contrast, they might only respond to a girl's comments with a nod.

In fact, I worked all through university, but I only had part time jobs then.

Inside a rat's nose are up to 1,000 different types of olfactory receptors whereas humans only have 100 to 200 types.

It is profitable to drill to depths more than 1,000 feet for oil and gas extraction, but only recently in California has it become profitable to pump water from this depth.

It still only allows potatoes from selected US states.

It will only slow you down and hinder your career goals.

I've only had two driving lessons so far, and my instructor is very understanding.

Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national governments have failed to do anything about the crowds for decades, because they're only interested in tourism.

Longevity also pushes back the age of retirement, and not only for financial reasons.

Many of us grow up believing that skipping breakfast is a serious mistake, even if only two thirds of adults in the UK eat breakfast regularly, according to the British dietetic Association, and around three-quarters of Americans.

Many people don't know how to cook, Rea says, and they only know how to heat things up.

Moon Express is not the only company seeking for the right to travel to outer space.

Not only did it inconvenience my teaching but also my life as a whole.

Not only will the sunken plane create the perfect skeleton for artificial reef growth, but authorities hope this new underwater attraction will bring tourists to the area.

Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.

Only a few kinds of drugs can cause physical dependence.

Only a small 31 percentage of people had "all-male" or "all-female" characteristics.

Only about one-in-five say women's family responsibilities are a major reason why there aren't more females in top leadership positions in business and politics.

Only apply for positions you're qualified for, and make each application count, personalizing each cover letter and updating and editing your resume.

Or Maybe the reward of a half-sized portion could be a half-sized dessert to be claimed only on a future date.

Phone lines could only transmit information at a limited rate.

Rats are often associated with spreading disease rather than preventing it, but this long-tailed animal is highly sensitive Inside a rat's nose are up to 1, 000 different types of olfactory receptors whereas humans only have 100 to 200 types.

Researchers found that only people who were seated in individual - had a high risk of catching the illness.

Roughly half of all federally-convicted animal fighters only get probation(缓刑).

since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

Some of the surveys included only college students; others were done with a mixed-age population.

Student teachers score higher on tests than pupils who're learning only for their own sake.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross functional teams.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the U.S., and until now have only reported minor accidents.

The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

The menu rule only applies to restaurants that serve standardised portion sizes and have fifteen or more locations nationwide.

The Olympic got wrecked before the titanic did, but it was the only one to survive and maintain a successful career of 24 years.

The only language that is used by more people is Chinese.

The patients were split into three groups: one group received only usual care from a physician while the other two groups received usual care from a physician plus one of two computerized CBT programs.

The show will have one host only, and this will be Professor Susan Paul from Harvard University.

There's only one problem with the cliché.

Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.

They cannot be attributed to weather only.

The Russian, Greek and Polish storks flew as far as South Africa, while those from Spain, Tunisia and Germany flew only as far as the Sahel.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

Futures markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

But that's not the only uncertainty.

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

Wealth is not, of course, the only factor involved.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental ( ' , 渐进的) gains.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.

That would be true only if you believed that patients should have an unrestrained right to treatments proven to be inferior.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%.

Interviews with students find many of them are only concerned about personal matters.

In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

He thinks it the only way out of the current food crisis.

For example, only one boy said he would like to be president when he grows up.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

The ROWE participants were allowed to freely determine when, where and how they worked – the only thing that mattered was that they got the job done.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

Not only that, it supports a number of platforms: Apple's i OS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows phone.

No wonder only 13% of employees worldwide feel engaged in their occupation.

It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.

It's a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark.

In a 2011 study, she investigated the effects of implementing a Results Only Work Environment ( ' , ROWE) on the productivity and well-being of employees at Best Buy's corporate headquarters.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

Full-time employees who do have paid vacation days only use half of them on average.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

In the past few months, I’ve been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Williams worked at a managerial level, while only 38.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

The Black group, on the other hand, put his salary at about ＄29,000, and guessed that he had only some college experience.

Obama is only the most prominent public figure to declare inequality Public Enemy No.

Not only moving objects and people but all systems have momentum.

Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

It should not be confined to the rich only.

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( ' , possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energy ( ' , 动能 ) to your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

College graduates will still fare better than those with only s high school education, of course.

As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls and windows.

And not only do our prospective new energy workers have to be trained, they have to be trained in the right sequence.

After all, we don't speak only of objects or people as having momentum; we speak of entire systems having momentum.

"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year col

A slow response to a message could hurt not only your reputation but also your livelihood.

A spirit of openness is gaining acceptance in the science community, and is the only way,say advocates,to address a ‘crisis' in science whereby too few findings are successfully reproduced.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

According to the New England historical Society, Hale wrote only part of the poem, but claimed authorship.

Almost half of the sites didn't get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an A or B.

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Although many of the churches appear from the outside to be complex structures, they normally feature only a single storey but numerous different roof levels.

American universities, despite their global reputation for excellence in teaching, have only begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning.

And it’s very expensive because it comes from a special type of pig that only eats a special type of food.

And scientists are only just beginning to understand what those constraints are.

And that conclusion is based only on students nearing graduation.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls an

And workers on part-time contracts, who only work four or five hours a day, are happier than those who work full-time.

And, unlike nutrients that are found only in few foods, protein is present in all foods.

As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, " Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications. "

As marketing professors Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan recently explained in Hazard Business Review HBR, leisure time was once seen as an indicator of high social status, something attainable only for those at the top.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

At the University of California (UC), we pride ourselves not only on the quality of our research, but also on its contribution to improving our world.

Businesses in order to boost their profits hire employees as part-time workers only.

But according to a 2008 review, only one study that followed this design found that students actually learned best with their preferred style.

But Elop was not the only person at fault.

But if we're talking about the benefits to society, the only thing that matters is what the major enables the student to produce for society.

But in Bangladesh, a population 600 times greater, speaks only 41 languages.

But it's not only women who are affected by this pressure to look good.

But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

But now, with only 30 wooden churches remaining and their condition deteriorating, experts are working to preserve the structures for future generations.

But the only way college could be free is if the faculty and staff donated their time, the buildings required no maintenance, and campuses required no utilities.

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

But, he says extreme events become disasters only when people fail to prepare for them.

College graduates will still fare better than those with only a high school education, of course.

Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happened.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmo

During a month-long hospital trial,researchers asked 70 patients how they felt being around the robot and "only three or four said they didn't like having it around".

Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!

Even people with the sharpest facial-recognition skills can only remember so much.

Flamingos, however, are the only species that actually makes life in the midst of all that death.

For hundreds of thousands of Cascadia residents, "The Big One" isn’t a question of if, only when.

For this reason, community interventions and government job programs that offer summer and vacation work are not only economically beneficial but also help to stimulate the adolescent's sense of worth.

Getting input from others not only offers a fresh perspective and thought process, it often also includes riskier choices.

higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

I have enough trouble delivering bikes to shops only forty miles away, never mind five thousand miles.

If every distraction took only 1 minute, that would account for 2.5 hours a day.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

A seminar leader shared her success story —she had not only 125 pounds, but also raised $25, 000 for homeless children.

A software engineer by profession, Steve was a keen lover of the piano, and the only musician in his family.

According to London underground, only 40 percent of travelers walk the full length of long escalators, leaving the majority at the bottom as they wait to get on to the "standing "side.

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

After hours in the cold and wet, he reached inside and pulled the wallet out hoping to find some id so he could contact the driver, only to discover it contained ￡400 in notes, with another ￡50 in spare change beside it.

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make themselves heard over loud noise.

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

Although the programme asks the members only to drive students to and from their classes, Wilson often goes beyond to ensure the welfare and safety of the students.

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

And, it's only six hundred dollars a month.

At my high school, there were about only four active club and organizations that students could be a part of.

Benjamin could read only a little, having been a poor student.

Benjamin west, the father of American painting, showed his talent for art when he was only six years of age.

Besides, I was only halfway through my report, and everything is in the computer.

Beyond a certain point, though, further stress will only lead to exhaustion, illness and finally a breakdown.

Boy, news travels fast around here! I only got the orders a couple of hours ago.

But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

But herd immunity works only when nearly the whole herd joins in.

But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat's lifetime-and we'll still have 100 left over for the next cat.

But like so many other things, it is only too much stress that does you harm.

But the new national sleep foundation survey found that 35% of 10- to 12-year-olds get only seven or eight hours.

But the only thing that wasn't very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn't catch anything.

But the phrase "penny paper" caught the public's fancy, and soon there would be papers that did indeed sell for only a penny.

But the textile boom lasted only several decades.

By boat is the only way to get here, which is how we arrived.

By comParison, the brains of apes (类人猿) require only 8%of rest-time energy.

By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it right away.

Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

Consequently, she succeeded in making a kind of candy only using natural sweeteners, which can reduce oral bacteria.

Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over the past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.

Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to get harder from here on out.

Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1000; Africa 2400; and asia and the pacific perhaps 3200, of which papua new guinea alone accounts for well over 800.

Everyone enjoys the life-saving benefits vaccines provide, but they'll exist only as long as everyone shares in the risks.

Farecard machine are in every station, bring small bills because there are no change machines in the station and farecard machine only provide up to $ 5 in change.

For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team's performance begins to decline.

For many students, Wilson's help is not only appreciated, it's also entirely necessary for them to be able to complete their college education.

For those who fly to Guilin, it's only an hour away by car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.

For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone.

From now on I will only be editing articles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low.

Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it, and only 35 percent say it's tolerated.

However, studies have shown that when exercise is performed in groups, it's not only great for improving physical health but for psychological health.

However, there's only so much that prep books, websites, and older friends can teach.

However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

Human life is regarded as part of nature and, as such, the only way for us to survive is to live in harmony with nature.

I could only have left it on the G9 bus, which was now speeding in the dark to some unknown station.

I decided to play with him with only one toy for as long as it would keep his interest.

I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child.

I only learned how to sign the alphabet that day.

I would like you to read a lot of books this year, but I want you to read them only for pleasure.

If nations could only keep the initial promises of the Paris Agreement, what would happen by the year 2100?

If you are time poor, you need run for only half the time to get the same benefits as other sports, so perhaps we should all give it/running a try.

In 1988 there were only 600 recycling programs; today in 1995 there are about 6, 600.

In any given story of corruption or disaster, a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience, but also the delayed reward of information and preparedness.

In the new trail, in addition to one escalator banning walking in rush hours, the other "up" escalators will be used for standing only and a mix of walking and standing.

In the new trial, which will be launched from April 18, one of three "up" escalators will be standing only, with a second banning walking at peak times.

Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the stroop test one way of measuring attention.

Instead of using up 219kg of steel, we've use only 6kg.

It is only natural that we lose faith, trust and confidence in a person who is tardy.

It only has one bedroom, but it sounds nice, near lake street.

It was only when the car pulled up in front of our house that we saw Lily in the passenger seat.

It's only a 20-minute drive and the traffic will be good at that time.

May Day is a traditional day for celebrations, but the 2, 000 english villagers of stilton must be the only people in the world who include cheese rolling in their annual plans.

Modem methods of/for tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive to perform consistently over a large area.

Mohammed Rezwan saw opportunity where others saw only disaster.

My interest was aroused only by the fact that the word "poems" appeared in big, hot pink letters.

No, we don't have it in yellow, only in red and blue.

Not knowing how much longer he could last, Nicholas did the only thing he could — he huddled in his cave and slept.

Not only will you help our young volunteers to develop personally, you'll also learn new skills and increase your cultural awareness.

On the street or in the park, she had only one thing on her mind: squirrels! She was so joyous that even on the worst days, she could make me smile.

One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime.

One group was asked to seek out an interaction with its waiter; the other, to speak only when necessary.

Only about one in ten places offered him food that would otherwise be discarded.

Only after talking to two students did I discover that having strong motivation is one of the biggest factors in reaching goals.

Only at dinnertime are we eating together anymore, 74 percent, according to statistics from the report.

Only eleven cars were produced the next month.

Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.

Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part.

"Only on special occasions would they take it out and let us hold it in our hands, " Adeline says.

Only people who know the keyword can read the message.

Only then should you set your goals.

Only three hundred and fifty dollars.

Only when lily walked into the office did she realize that she had left the contract at home.

Or perhaps you are the only one who is interested in listening to the ballgame.

Others say it's only natural that newcomers learn the language of their host nation, seeing it as a condition to ensure they can contribute to society.

Parents ought to be able to opt out only for limited medical or religious reasons.

Prinstein came to another conclusion: not only is likability related to positive life outcomes, but it is also responsible for those outcomes, too.

Recycling plastics and aluminum, for instance, uses only 5% to 10% as much energy as producing new plastic or smelting aluminum.

She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left.

Some people live only dreaming about it while others live to avoid ever climbing at all.

Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment of a particularly interesting story.

Students living in buildings that have kitchens are only permitted to cook in the kitchen.

Such is their devotion to the common good of the colony that not only soldier ants but also worker ants will sacrifice their lives to help defeat an enemy.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people.

That photo is a reminder, a captured moment, an unspoken conversation between two women, separated only by a thin square of glass.

That's how we found our home and how I learned that when people are kind, they are not strangers, only friends we haven't yet met.

The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences 一 called light pollution 一 whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study.

Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted, and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution.

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which a passed down only from mothers.

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

Critics also argue that commercial genetic testing is only as good as the reference collections to which a sample is compared.

At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

Time was when biologists somewhat overworked the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on "worthless"species.

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.

Later, move established companies raced to add such patents to their files, if only as a defensive move against rivals that might bent them to the punch.

Anecdotal evidence of this kind fits nicely with the idea that only certain special people can drive trends.

These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English.

The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.

Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.

When Hoffa’s Teamsters were in their prime in 1960, only one in ten American government workers belonged to a union; now 36% do.

This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading - between passive consumption and active creation - whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine.

The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250,000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods - paintings, sculpture and architecture - and superfluous experiences - music, literature, religion and philosophy.

All animals download, but only a few upload.

Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford not to.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable-meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t advertise that –and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia,who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the alien and Sedition Acts.

Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an extreme intensity and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.

What motivated him, we were to understand, was his zeal for “fundamental fairness”—protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits.

The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

Only if the jobless arrive at the jobcentre with a CV, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit—and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.

But in Osborneland, your first instinct is to fall into dependency—permanent dependency if you can get it—supported by a state only too ready to indulge your falsehood.

Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school.

And it is far from the only one of its type.

Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market.

This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.

It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy’s reputation with her rather ordinary ( ' , if well-heeled) granny style.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

Mental health can’t be learned, only reawakened.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”

Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.

Only Ukip, sensing its chance, has sided with those pleading for a more considered approach to using green land Its Campaign to Protect Rural England struck terror into many local Conservative parties.

It argues that since prosecutors do not consume a company’s products as part of their investigations, they could be influenced only by the halo effect.

In all, the study concludes that whereas prosecutors should only evaluate a case based on its merits, they do seem to be influenced by a company’s record in CSR.

The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.

Part of the issue is that airports have only so much room for screening lanes.

In their eagerness to build bigger telescopes, they forgot that science is the only way of understanding the world.

The data of an individual there gains its value only when it is compared with the data of countless millions more.

But privacy is not the only angle in this case and not even the most important.

At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.

But her appeal was considered a failure: only 24 companies took it up.

But mayors and councilors can only do so much about a problem that is far bigger than any one city or town.

But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.

But the epidemic is "moderate" in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization's director general, with the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the absence of any medical treatment.

But the headlong push into bachelor's degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point: That's not the only thing the American economy needs.

Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.

Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power.

Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.

Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

Facebook, therefore, is a self-enhancer's paradise,where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit, style, beauty, intellect and lifestyles.

Failures stop us only if we let them.

For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very concept of money itself", only to reverse itself several years later.

For example, he theorised that a judge fearful of appearing too soft on crime might be more likely to send someone to prison if he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.

For many people, especially those with serious health condition or family members with serious health conditions,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the

Grade forgiveness allows students to retake a course in which they received a low grade, and the most recent grade or the highest grade is the only one that counts in calculating a student's overall GPA.

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods—paintings, sculpture and architecture—and superfluous experiences—music, literature, religion and philosophy.

I had gained weight in the form of muscle mass, but thinking only of lowering the number on the scale, I altered my training program.

In all, the study concludes that whereas prosecutors should only evaluate a case based on its merits, they do seem to be influenced by a company's record in CSR.

In an essay entitled "Making it in America", the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, "a man and a dog".

In contrast, only five of the 30 children paired with the "unreliable" tester participated in a follow-up activity.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .

In their eagerness to build bigger telescopes, they forgot that science is not the only way of understanding the world.

Indeed, while you might assume that an exhibition of Land Art would consist only of records of works rather than the works themselves, Long's photograph of his work is the work.

Indeed, women hold only 14 percent of positions on Europe corporate boards.

Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism "in society should be profit and the market .

It argues that since prosecutors do not consume a company's products as part of their investigations, they could be influenced only by the halo effect.

It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy's reputation with her rather ordinary granny style.

It may involve not only his parents and his friends, as well as those of the young woman, but also a matchmaker.

It was only after "toddler" became a common shoppers' term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage.

It was only after I started to write a weekly column about the medical journals, and began to read scientific papers from beginning to end, that I realised just how bad much of the medical literature frequently was.

It's just that individual actions are too slow, she says, for that to be the only, or even primary, approach to changing widespread behavior.

John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly"thin slice"information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in "thick sliced" long-term study.

Later, more established companies raced to add such patents to their files, if only as a defensive move against rivals that might beat them to the punch.

Most of the first-generation students were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.

Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the co-workers are much harder to motivate.

Only if the jobless arrive at the job centre with a CV, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit—and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.

Only recently have they come to see the vital part forests will have to play in storing carbon.

Only strong people prefer to smile and value their life instead of crying and complaining about something.

Only then will they be useful servants and not Frankenstein's out-of-control monster.

Only Ukip, sensing its chance, has sided with those pleading for a more considered approach to using green land.

Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: dogs can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.

Our findings indicate that people do not only feel different when they are the centre of attention but that their brain reactions also differ.

Parkrun is not a race but a time trial: Your only competitor is the clock.

Peretti says the times shouldn't waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.

similarly, children tend to treat robots as if they are fellow beings, even when they display only simple social signals.

Sociologist Catherine Kohler riessman reports in her new book divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed — but only a few of the men — gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces.

双语例句

1. His house was the only settled home I had as a child.: 他的房子是我儿时唯一固定的家。

2. The arteries are diseased and a transplant is the only hope.: 动脉已经发生病变，移植是唯一的希望。

3. The crowd in Robinson's Coffee-House was thinning, but only by degrees.: 鲁宾逊咖啡屋里的人正在变少，但也只是渐少而已。

4. They have only a vague idea of the amount of water available.: 他们只是大概知道可用水的总量。

5. We were in the same college, which was male-only at that time.: 我们那时在同一所学院，当时只招男生。