You quickly conclude that this newfangled chainsaw thing is just a fad , and you go back to chopping down trees with your axe.

您很快就会得出结论，电锯这种新工具只不过是一种时尚，最后还是改用斧子来砍树。

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Yet, in the West, standards of cleanliness seem to have moved beyond science into the realm of fashion and fad .

然而，在西方，清洁的标准似乎超过了科学而进入到了一种流行或者时尚的潮流中。

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Social media are certainly not a fad , and their impact is only just beginning to be felt.

社交媒体无疑不是短暂的时尚，它们的影响刚刚开始被感觉到。

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Body piercing is something of a modern fad amongst youngsters (and some oldsters).

身体穿孔艺术在年轻人中间（甚至对个别年长人来说）都是时尚前卫的流行元素。

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Fad diets may promise you that counting carbs or eating a mountain of grapefruit will make the pounds drop off.

时尚餐饮的理念可能会向你许诺：减少碳水化合物摄入，或者吃上一大堆葡萄柚，那样就能使你的体重减轻。

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By now, I think it's clear to all of us in the technology world that computer games are not just a passing fad .

时至今日，我想每个人都已经非常清楚的看到计算机游戏对于技术世界来说，已经不仅仅是一个短暂的流行。

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And he does not see this as a passing fad or some triumph of clever marketing.

他不认为哈利会昙花一现，或是市场营销的胜利。

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It does not match the surroundings, the imagery is random, or it is a fad from years back like Ansel Adams prints.

它和周围和环境不符，想象是很随意的，或者就是几年前亚当的时尚。

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It will just have been a really fast fashion fad .

它也只能成为一种转瞬即逝的时尚潮流。

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It's moved beyond a cool fad into a genuinely useful publishing platform.

它已经不仅仅是一个时尚，而是成为一个真正有用的信息发布平台。

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The invention was patented that February, and there was a brief fad for making home recordings using it.

同年2月该项发明获得了专利，使用它制作家庭录音一度成为时尚。

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Forget fad diets and expensive face creams. The key to looking young is to grow old disgracefully.

忘掉流行的减肥餐和价格不菲的面霜吧，这些使人看起来年轻的“关键”方法其实加剧了衰老。

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I worry this is just a fad . I'm worried that when the economy picks up, they'll all flock back to the city.

我担心这只是一时的时尚，一旦经济复苏，这些年轻人会放弃手中的农活回到城市。

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We do not know whether this is part of an explicit government policy or merely a fad .

我们不知道这究竟是某项明确的政府政策，抑或只是流行一时的论调。

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And the afternoon tea fad is trickling down.

下午茶的时尚正在慢慢扩散。

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In a world where seemingly every day a new fad diet hits the shelves, eating healthy can be mired in confusion and doubt.

现今世上，时尚饮食的书籍似乎每日都泛滥于书架，如何吃得健康的问题在混乱和疑惑中陷入困境。

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Looking back now, he says that he considered computer dating to be little more than a gimmick and a fad .

现在回想起来，他说他当时认为电脑相亲不过是一些流行一时的花招。

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Glowing, transgenic lab animals seems to be a fad these days.

现在似乎很流行在实验室里通过转基因手段把动物弄得会发光。

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Or is the current fad for Africa just another bubble?

现在这股投资热是否只是一场泡沫？

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Students might parade their knowledge about fashion and fad too much.

学生有可能过于炫耀他们关于时尚和潮流的知识。

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Asia's sushi fad bodes ill for the bluefin tuna even on the far side of the world.

亚洲的寿司口味时尚预示着世界上最远处的金枪鱼凶多吉少。

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The austerity fad is also distorting politicians' priorities.

一时狂热的紧缩政策也扭曲了政治家们对首要考虑因素的思路。

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A fad is popular for only a short time and is forgotten as soon as the next fad comes along.

一种流行的时尚只是在短时期内流行，伴随着新的流行时尚产生，就会很快被人们置于遗忘的角落。

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So instead of starting another fad diet, start small with dietary changes that you can sustain, that you enjoy, and that are good for you.

因此，从饮食的小改变开始，选择你能坚持、享受的方式，而不是另一种时尚的节食方式，这样对你才是最有效的。

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So it is unclear whether episodic gaming is a promising new business model or a fad with only limited appeal.

因此，人们还不清楚，章节游戏到底是前景广阔的新型商业模式，还是魅力有限的昙花一现。

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The fad for low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets could be putting lives at risk, say dieticians.

营养学家指出，低碳水化合物和高蛋白饮食会带来死亡危险。

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That is partly because he believed, wrongly, that minicomputers were a passing fad .

有一部分原因是他一度错误地相信小型计算机很快就会过时。

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This is surprising as diversity is the fad of the moment and racial abuse is a real problem.

在多样性成为当今时尚，且种族主义恶习成为一个真正问题之际，这种情况令人相当吃惊。

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Pioneering developers started migrating to so-called "No SQL" solutions within the past 18 months, and the "fad " is now mainstream.

在过去18个月内，开创性的开发人员已开始向所谓的“无SQL”（NoSQL）解决方案迁移，这个一时兴起的创意成为了现在的主流趋势。

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And this whole cloud computing fad ?

这场云计算风潮又怎样呢？

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