If she didn’t keep the conversation going, we’d spend the whole evening in silence.
如果她不继续交谈，我们整个晚上都会沉默不语。
Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year – a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
鉴于目前的离婚率接近50%，这意味着美国每年有数百万起离婚案例——一种沟通失败的近乎流行病式的危机。
nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation
近 50%的近期离婚是沟通失败引起的。
While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws, we’re ignoring the balance of power that implies that as “consumers” we must shop sustainably, rather than as “citizens” hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change.
当关于环境和我们对它责任的讨论仍然集中在购物袋和吸管上时，我们却忽视了这种权力平衡所暗示的含义，即作为‘消费者’，我们必须可持续地购物，而不是作为‘公民’去要求政府和企业负责，推动真正的系统性变革。
In one series of studies, researchers instructed Chicago-area commuters using public transportation to strike up a conversation with someone near them.
在一系列研究中，研究人员指示芝加哥地区使用公共交通的通勤者与附近的人开始交谈。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。