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

避免概括性的无用之词，给出具体的实例。

It indicates a general statement is coming.

它表示马上要讲一个概括性的声明。

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

要做到这一点，我们需要做一些概括性的讨论。

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

“信息可以在柜台获取” 是一个非常概括性的陈述。

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

它是一种更加概括性的说法，指的并不是某个特定的人。

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

所有系统——这是一个概括性的说法——所有系统在某种程度上都是相互关联的。

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的问题，我们没有明确指出我们想要谈论什么。

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

好的，我觉得我们应该以一些比较概括性的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 年的历史提供了哪些概括性的令人印象深刻的证据？

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

是的，一本大部头的书， 讲述了文明的进程——可以说是概括性的。

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的想法，如果正在进行头脑风，发现这些想法确实有帮助，当说“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，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的愿望，是远远不够的。我们每个人都有这样的想法。

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

首先，打标签磨平人们独特的个人经历。像“创伤”这样的概括性术语，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.

出于她信誉的原因，Wisse并没有在书中做出犹太式笑话的概括性的论述，而是在她擅长的历史心理学吹赞方面做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，如果遇到一个例子或解释，能支持前一个大的概括性想法，就在旁边的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，如果遇到一个句子，它似乎表达的是一个概括性的、有趣的想法，那就在书旁边的空白处画一个点。

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的概括性。

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.

在这个概括性更强的理论适用于所有的句子。

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.

是的，但是我们觉得我们需要在介绍部分说一些猛犸象的概括性的知识，以此建立它们与现今的大象的联系，它们生活在几千年的冰川时代。

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，但们在购屋这件事上，不用担心财务上的问题。鲁伯在傍晚时候的建议，是我给他的一些概括性的建议，她转译的很好。