A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.

According to some researchers, we can use firewalls to avoid robots' affecting the world.

According to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

Advertisements persuade us that newer is better and that we will be happier with the latest products.

After all, if we adapt in that way, we may avoid the need to change in so many others.

After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

After staying overnight in London, we travel on day 2 to northern France to visit the World War I battlefields.

All around the world, we can see the consequences of this throwaway lifestyle.

Although Freddy was taken from us, we all took something from Freddy.

Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was beyond our range, so we declined.

Although we may not be aware of chemicals like pheromones consciously, we give and receive loads of information through smell in every interaction with other people.

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 dinner time seemed perfect for sharing what we had learned.

And the longer we delay it, the more tired we feel.

And we can't forget science education.

And we reached the top on June 5th.

Anger seems simple when we are feeling it, but the causes of anger are various.

Another unique human characteristic is that we walk upright.

Are we still going to have group study tonight?

As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at work in people of all ages.

As busy people, we are always looking for ways to save time and make our lives easier.

As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

As our society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.

As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn't throw out our old ones.

As we move away from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based one, office designers have come up with alternatives to the traditional work environments of the past.

Because we can watch the neighbours react.

Before we finish, can you offer any tips on becoming a better songwriter?

Being fond of someone seems to have a number of factors, including seeing something we find attractive.

Being punctual, we can avoid anxiety.

Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated.

Being unpunctual, we are not respectful of others ; we are interfering (扰乱) with another man's time.

But above all, we want to spend some time with you and your family.

But distinctions that were sharp to us as children become unclear; we are numb to new stimulation, new ideas.

But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of what it would be like to live there.

But I don't think we can get the tickets this late.

But I will have to ask my friend first and we will come together.

But more importantly, we made a commitment to grow together as a couple.

But sometimes we're not aware how cheaply we can make this food ourselves.

But then we got an official letter and we were blown away.

But we didn't have to be here until today.

But we do not open on Mondays.

But we do think that you can live a more powerful life when you devote some of your time and energy to something much larger than yourself.

But we have to wait in line to pay for these things we need.

But we're never meant to let go of the part of us that knows we can have more.

But, according to a new study, we should be placing a higher value on motherhood all year.

But, if we are willing to lean, the opportunities are everywhere.

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

By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺诈).

Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life – from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device.

Charles darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate (亲密的) than the world we can see and hear.

Dad carried the pot out and we opened doors and windows to air out the house.

Daughter elisabeth explains, \our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace.\

Days later, we made an offer—far below the asking price.

Determining where we are in relation to our surroundings remains an essential skill for our survival.

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

Dismissing small talk as unimportant is easy, but we can't forget that deep relationships wouldn't.

Even so, we decided to talk with the owners directly.

Even though we can't live forever, we are living a longer life than ever before.

Every day in our work, we are inspired by the people we meet doing extraordinary things to improve the world.

Finally, we faced the number one team in the state.

Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy ran up to the door of the bus.

First, we decided to buy the resources.

For breakfast, we were able to eat papaya and other fruits from their trees in the backyard.

For days the kids have been looking for others we can help! things would have played out so differently if I had simply said, \No, we really don't have money to give more.\

For want of better names, we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.

For weeks, I've been thinking of bigger, deeper questions: how do we make it a habit for them?

From that day on, we learned together, traveled together, and sacrificed together.

From the very beginning of school, we make books and reading a constant source of possible failure and public humiliation.

Great! You know, we went mountain climbing in the forest park.

He and I both knew what the deal was, and we didn't talk about it.

He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

Here we have one of the climbers mike to share his experience.

Hmm......our notes say that we arranged for an engineer to visit your house yesterday.

Hoping that no one would notice that I was shaking inside, I threw my voice as far as it would reach: \Put your heads on the desks and close your eyes! We are going on a journey.\

How long will we stay at the cam?

How we understand things has a lot to do with what we feel.

However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weigh risks and rewards.

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.

However, we cannot always be intolerant of tardiness, for ordinary living requires some tolerance.

I don't think we can get there in time to see the beginning.

I don't think what he said is relevant to the topic we are discussing.

I felt that it would be a victory for us even if we lost the game.

I go back years ago, when we lived in a three-room house, when we got up before daylight and worked till after dark to make ends meet.

I guess the answer is, we were fighting for survival, protecting and providing for those we loved.

I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver, but he refused to stop until we reached the next stop.

I often found myself telling my mom to drive more slowly, so that I could read all of the road signs we passed.

I read somewhere that we spend a full third of our lives waiting.

I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would buy the eggs from him.

I was thrilled! I arrived early at byron bay where we were supposed to meet.

If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars,we would go in darkness happily,the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet.

If the weather is fine, we can have a barbecue in the garden.

If Tononi's theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night's, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.

If we are not careful, then, we could face a kind of global chess match against very determined, super intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own, with the real world as the chessboard.

If we complained about not having what another kid did, we'd hear something like, \I don't care what so–and–so got for his birthday, you are not getting a TV in your room/a car for your birthday/a lavish sweet-16 party.\

If we go somewhere and I ask him to leave the phone at home, he suffers from withdrawal symptoms.

If we had caught the flight yesterday, we would be enjoying our holiday on the beach now.

If we substitute a number for each letter, the message \meet me\ would read 13 5 5 20 13 5.

If we thought Dad's pile of chicken manure was bad, this was 10 times worse.

If we work hard,we will find a way out.