When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it’s not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers – but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.
当小孩子学习计算机科学时，他们会明白这不仅仅是一串令人困惑、无休止的字母和数字，而是一种用来开发应用程序、创作艺术品或验证假设的工具。
Worse, the numbers are now falling at an accelerating rate.
更糟糕的是，这一数字现在正以越来越快的速度下降。
Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through.
Facebook当时向欧盟委员会承诺，不会将电话号码与Facebook身份关联，但交易完成后几乎立刻就违背了这一承诺。
I’ve also experienced greater success in achieving my specific fitness goals, 19 I’m training according to those goals, not the numbers on a scale.
我也在实现特定健身目标方面取得了更大的成功，19 我是根据这些目标进行训练，而不是体重秤上的数字。
DeSombre argues that the best way to collectively change the behavior of large numbers of people is for the change to be structural.
德索姆布认为，要集体改变大量人群的行为，最好的方式是进行结构性的改变。
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。