Bill: So, how about it?

比尔：怎么样？

Bill: So, how about it? Can you tear yourself away from the TV tonight?

比尔：那么，这主意如何？你能今晚远离电视机吗？

If you start working in earnest, you might just pass. So now, how about it?

你要是一开始就认真工作，就可能通过了。可事到如今，你咋办呢？

Listen, Jerry and I wanted to go to a movie tomorrow night, but we don't have a way to get there. If you drive, we'll buy the tickets, How about it?

我和杰瑞准备明天晚上去看电影，但是没有车，如果你能开车带我们去，你的电影票我们包了，这个主意怎么样？

Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering. It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats.

施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开，调查了日本的工厂来弄清楚他们怎么生产出了如此了不起的产品。

Tell us about it and how you developed it.

告诉我们关于它以及你是如何发展它的。

Tell us all about it, and how you came to make it what it is.

告诉我们关于它的一切，以及你是怎样使它成为现在这个样子的。

I thought I would write about how peaceful it is to be out in the country.

我想我会写一篇关于在乡下是多么宁静的文章。

After studying these products for several years, I wrote a book about how they do it.

经过对这些产品长达几年的研究，我写了一本关于它们是如何运作的书。

For a fascinating tale about creativity, look at a cleaning product called the Swiffer and how it came about, urges writer Jonah Lehrer.

作家乔纳·莱勒建议，若想要了解一个有关创造力的动人故事，可以了解一下一款名为 Swiffer 的清洁产品以及它是如何产生的。

How much of intelligence can be specified, and how much can we learn about it from neurology, genetics, computer science and other fields?

智力可以在多大程度上被测定，关于智力，我们又能从神经学、遗传学、计算机科学和其他领域中了解多少呢？

Having identified this fundamental unit, Shannon set about defining otherwise vague ideas about information and how to transmit it from place to place.

确定了这个基本单位后，香农开始定义关于信息及如何将信息从一处传到另一处的模糊概念。

It took them about one month to figure out how to start the equipment.

他们用了大约一个月的时间才弄明白如何启动这台设备。

For me it meant being very disciplined about how I run my life.

对我而言，它意味着要以非常有纪律的方式生活。

What do I think about it? How long have you got?

我是怎么想的？说来话长，你有工夫听吗？

I want him back, but I just don't know how to go about it.

我希望他回来，可我就是不知道怎么去做这件事。

He is not entirely clear on how he will go about it.

他不完全清楚要如何着手做这件事。

I don't have to tell you how important it is for you to keep your mouth shut about all this.

我不必告诉你对这件事保密有多么重要。

Though humor is essentially social, how you use it says a lot about your sense of self.

尽管幽默本质上是社会性的，但你如何使用它却能反映出你的自我意识。

Now that gave them a very different idea about their product, they saw how people responded to it; they could go up to customers in the store and ask them questions about it.

这让他们对自己的产品有了不同的想法，他们看到了人们对产品的反应；他们会走到商店里的顾客面前，问他们关于产品的问题。