1. 3 ´I said it was a good idea all along.´
    3 "我一直说这是个好想法。"

2. Now I'm 47, so we hired movers. The idea of "movers" makes me nervous.
    现在我47岁啦，所以就雇了搬家工。想到"搬家工"，我就感到忐忑不安。

3. No satisfactory way exists to explain how to form a good idea.
    闪光的思想是如何形成的，现在还没有令人满意的解释。

4. Not every idea will have value but capture it first and evaluate later.
    并非所有的想法都有价值，但先逮住它，以后再作评价。

5. Now that's a tiny—yet BIG—idea.
    现在，拉链成了虽不起眼、却很了不起的东西！

6. Now, Joe Gauld is trying to spread his controversial Character First idea to public, inner-city schools willing to use the tax dollars spent on the traditional program for the new approach.
    现在，乔·高尔德(约瑟夫·高尔德)正试图将他尚有争议的"品德第一"的理念向市中心贫民区的公立学校推广。这些学校愿将用于传统教学计划的税金用于实施这一新的教学方法。

7. He must, for example, perceive an egg as a simple single solid shape, quite apart from its significance as food, or from the literary idea that it will become a bird.
    以鸟蛋为例。观赏者必须感觉到它是一个单一的实体形态，而完全不靠它的食用意义或它会变成鸟这样的文字概念来感觉。

8. He sold the idea, now called a vacuum cleaner（真空吸尘器）, to a man named William H. Hoover. The company is still making Hoover vacuums and we're a little bit cleaner for it.
    他把这项现在叫做真空吸尘器的发明卖给了一个叫威廉·H·胡佛的男子。他的公司至今仍在制造胡佛牌真空吸尘器，我们的环境也因此而变得干净些了。

9. Despite all these unusual traditional ways of finding a marriage partner, one idea is the same throughout the world: Marriage is a basic and important part of human life.
    尽管有上述那些不寻常的寻找婚姻伴侣的传统办法，但有一个观点在全世界都是一样的：婚姻是人类生活中基本的、重要的一部分。

10. Don’t be afraid of those who might have a better idea or who might even be more intelligent than you are.
    不要害怕那些主意比你妙甚至比你聪明的人。