In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk.
简而言之，最能代表当前危机的形象，就是那种典型的漫画场景：一个男人坐在早餐桌前，报纸挡在面前，而女人则愤怒地盯着报纸的背面，想要和他交谈。
If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face (one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling), we can take a moment before buying.
如果我们知道在看到一张笑脸时，会对消费品或住房选择产生过度反应（这也是为什么优秀的销售人员和房地产经纪人总是面带微笑的原因之一），那么在购买之前我们可以稍作停顿。
While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing £ 4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015, is unlikely to be extended beyond then.
尽管这些措施在短期内值得欢迎，但我们必须正视这样一个事实：现有的45亿英镑的拨款计划用于资助新建可负担住房，该计划将于2015年到期，很可能不会延长。
Their thesis – that a relatively modest intervention could have a big impact – was based on the view that first-generation students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students.
他们的论文认为，相对适度的干预措施可能会产生重大影响，这一观点基于这样的看法：第一代学生最缺乏的可能不是潜力，而是应对大多数大学生所面临问题的实用知识。
While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those “just getting started in life” face a tougher climb than earlier generations in reaching such signpost achievements as securing a good-paying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.
虽然年轻人比他们的长辈对当前刚开始生活的人的前景稍微乐观一些，但两个群体中的大多数人认为，如今刚开始生活的人要达到诸如找到高薪工作、组建家庭、管理债务和找到负担得起的住房等标志性成就，所面临的挑战比早期几代人更大。
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。