Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too – providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.
‘随身携带一本书’其实也有效——只要你经常翻阅，使阅读成为一种默认状态，暂时离开它去处理事务，然后再回到阅读中。
But such feeing of connection markedly dip when entering a long gap.
但这种连接感在进入长时间的间隔时会明显下降。
If productions in Southern California dip below a critical level for too long, the industry's essential talent will drift away along with enormous sums of revenue.
如果南加州的影视制作长时间低于关键水平，这个行业所依赖的核心人才将会流失，同时带来巨额收入的减少。
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。