There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s habits,” said dr. Curtis, the director of the Hygiene Center at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
伦敦卫生与热带医学院卫生中心的主任 Curtis 博士说："存在一些根本性的公共卫生问题，比如不养成用肥皂洗手的习惯而只是脏手，这些问题仍然是杀手，仅仅因为我们无法找到改变人们习惯的方法。"
As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.
随着习惯这一新科学的出现，当这些策略被用来推销有疑问的美容霜或不健康食品时，争议也随之爆发。
To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, recommends building a habit of “deep work” – the ability to focus without distraction.
为了应对将忙碌视为重要价值的陷阱，深工作：在分心世界中专注成功的规则一书的作者卡尔·纽波特建议培养一种'深工作'的习惯——即在没有干扰的情况下专注的能力。
1, when done too often, this habit can sometimes hurt more than it 2.
1 当过于频繁时，这个习惯有时会造成的伤害比它 2 的好处还要多。
Today we fret about the isolating culture of smartphone-staring and selfie-vanity, but already in 1939 there was that lady regretting how, when all her street got wireless, it lost the neighbourly habit of "talking on the brush handle".
如今我们担忧的是智能手机带来的孤立文化以及自拍的虚荣心态，但早在1939年，就有一位女士后悔地说，当她所在的街区都装上了收音机后，人们就失去了在院子里拿着扫帚柄聊天的邻里习惯。
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。