1. No one word demonstrated the shift in corporations’ attention in the mid-1990s from processes to people more vividly than the single word “talent”. 没有一个词能够比“人才”更能生动准确的解释许多公司在90年代中期将注意力从项目流程转移到人力资源的现象了。
2. U.S. mid-term elections that could shift control of Congress to Republicans on Tuesday are adding to the uncertainty. 将于周二举行的美国中期选举，可能会使共和党人控制美国国会，为当前的形势增加了不确定性。
3. Now Mercury is retrograde too, so you won't likely see a big shift until June, and more in mid-September, but it will be a change you like, and you will see steady progress. 现在水星又要开始逆行了，所以到6月之前你都不会看到巨大的转变，12月中旬还会有一次改变，这会是你所喜闻乐见的，而且你会看到其平稳的过程。
4. Starting at the end of the 14th century, no doubt on account of the devastation caused mid-century by the Black Death, there was a general shift towards less expensive techniques. 从十四世纪末开始，毫无疑问，当人们讲到黑死病造成对该世纪中叶丝绸工业的破坏时， 该工业有向更不昂贵的技术转变的一种总倾向。
5. In this context, we cannot ignore the fact that coal, absent a quantum technological shift, is likely to remain the major fuel for energy generation in China and India through to mid-century. 在此背景下，我们不能忽视的一个事实是，如果没有巨大的技术变革，煤炭直到本世纪中叶都将会是中国和印度能源生产的主要燃料。
