Omit dull and ineffective generalities and make sure you give concrete examples.

避免概括性无用之词，给出具体实例。

It indicates a general statement is coming.

它表示马上讲一个概括性声明。

To do that, we're going to have to talk in generalities.

这一点，我们需一些概括性讨论。

" Information is available at the counter" is a very general statement.

“信息可以在柜台获取” 是一个非常概括性陈述。

It's a really general statement, it's not specifically referring to anyone.

它是一种更加概括性说法，指并不是某个特定人。

All systems, and this is a general statement, all systems are to some extent interinvolved.

所有系统——这是一个概括性说法——所有系统在某种程度上都是相互关联。

Now this is quite general we're not being specific about what we want to speak about.

那么这是一个非常概括性问题，我们没有明确指出我们想谈论什么。

OK. So I suppose we'll begin with some general historical background about why coastal cities were established.

好，我觉得我们应该以一些比较概括性为什么建设沿海城市历史背景开始。

Of what generalization does the history of the last fifteen years offer impressive proof?

2. 过去 15 年历史提供了哪些概括性令人印象深据？

Yes, a big book, dealing with the march of civilisation—in broad outline, as it were.

是，一本大部头书， 讲述了文明进程——可以说是概括性。

It typed up some general ideas, which actually could help if you were brainstorming and you're like, I have nothing at all.

它给出了一些概括性想法，如果你正在进行头脑风暴，你会发现这些想法确实有帮助，当你说“我一点头绪都没有”。

It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, live more, etc. Everybody has those desires also.

也就是说，你只有一个希望去旅行，增长见识，或是诸如让生活变得更好等此类概括性愿望，是远远不够。我们每个人都有这样想法。

When we apply a category too broadly, it loses much of its meaning.

首先，打标签会磨平人们独特个人经历。像“创伤”这样概括性术语，几乎可以囊括任何问题。但如果我们把某个标签分类过分扩大使用范围，它也就没有太大意义了。

To her credit, Ms Wisse offers no general theory of Jewish humor in her book, preferring description and textual analysis, at which she excels, to psycho-historical puffery.

出于她信誉原因，Wisse并没有在书中出犹太式笑话概括性论述，而是在她擅长历史心理学吹赞方面了些描述以及文本分析。

Secondly, if you come across an example or explanation that supports the previous big idea, draw a quick dash next to it in the margin.

其次，如果你遇一个例子或解释，能支持前一个大概括性想法，就在旁边空白处画一个破折号。

First, if you come across a sentence that seems to be laying out a big, interesting idea, draw a quick dot next to it in the margin of the book.

首先，如果你遇一个句子，它似乎表达是一个概括性、有趣想法，那就在书旁边空白处画一个点。

But there are other situations where we find some kind of resemblance between the physical and the abstract at a very high level of generalization.

但也有其他情况, 我们发现物理和抽象之间存在某种相似性, 而且这种相似性具有非常高概括性。

In this general theory then, which applies to all sentences, the original performatives are only a special type in which the illocutionary force is made explicit by the performative verb.

在这个概括性更强理论适用于所有句子。

Yes. But we thought we needed something general about woolly mammoths in our introduction, to establish that they were related to our modern elephant, and they lived thousands of years ago in the last ice age.

是，但是我们觉得我们需在介绍部分说一些猛犸象概括性知识，以此建立它们与现今大象联系，它们生活在几千年冰川时代。

Again, I am no banker, but you have nothing to worry about, financially, in your purchase of the house.And Ruburt's suggestion earlier this evening was a translation, and an excellent one, of some generalized advice which I gave him.

再次，我不是银行家，但你们在购屋这件事上，不用担心财务上问题。鲁伯在傍晚时候建议，是我给他一些概括性建议，她转译很好。