We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else we’re doing, Subjects exposed to fast-food flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long.
我们无意识地将快餐与速度和不耐烦联系在一起,并将这些冲动带入我们正在做的其他事情中。接受快餐标志短暂刺激的受试者也倾向于认为一段音乐持续时间太长。
He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like "children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.
他引用了古典经济学巨擘阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔的话,将这种金融上的急躁比作"孩子们把布丁里的李子挑出来立刻吃掉,而不是留到最后再吃"。
governments' impatience in decision-making.
政府在决策中的急躁。
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。