These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.
这些习惯帮助公司在顾客几乎不假思索地吃零食或擦拭台面时赚取了数十亿美元，而这些行为通常是对精心设计的一系列日常提示的反应。
Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.
密斯高雅的展示方式掩盖了一个事实，即他设计的空间是小巧而高效的，而不是宏大而常常空荡的。
In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses – usually around 1,200 square feet – than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
20世纪30年代，弗兰克·洛伊·莱特开始建造更为谦逊和高效的住宅——通常约为1200平方英尺——这比他在19世纪90年代和20世纪初设计的那些宽敞的两层住宅要小得多。
Our legal system was designed to set law apart from politics precisely because they are so closely 14 .
我们的法律体系被设计成让法律与政治分离开来，正是由于它们之间如此紧密地14。
For example, the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.
例如，Long Now 基金会将其旗舰项目定为一座机械钟，它被设计为在数千年后仍能继续计时。
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。