The companies that dr. Curtis turned to – Procter & Gamble, Colgate- Palmolive and Unilever – had invested hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers’ lives that corporations could use to introduce new routines.
Curtis 博士所求助的公司——宝洁公司、高露洁-棕榄公司和联合利华公司——已经投入了数亿资金，寻找消费者生活中细微的提示，企业可以利用这些提示来引入新的日常习惯。
This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every day.
这是一种微妙的同辈压力：我们无意识地模仿每天看到的行为。
But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all – and the subtle devaluing of anything less – misses an important point: That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.
但盲目地让所有人都攻读学士学位，并微妙地贬低任何低于这一层次的教育，却忽略了一个重要的问题：这并不是美国经济唯一需要的东西。
Thankfully, there is a way out of this trap – but it involves striking a subtle balance.
幸运的是，有一种方法可以摆脱这个困境——但它需要达到一种微妙的平衡。
Ambady suspected that deliberation focused them on vivid but misleading cues, such as certain gestures or utterances, rather than letting the complex interplay of subtle signals form a holistic impression.
Ambady怀疑深思熟虑使他们关注生动但具有误导性的线索，比如某些手势或言语，而不是让微妙信号的复杂互动形成整体印象。
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。