1. The most powerful computers struggle to reliably recognize the shape of an object, the most elementary of tasks for a ten-month-old kid. 最强大的计算机都难以可靠地识别出某个物体的形状，而这对于10个月大的孩子来说是最基础的任务。
2. Economists who study the relationship between money and happiness have consistently found that, above a certain income, the two do not reliably correlate. 研究金钱与幸福关系的经济学家们一致发现，在一定的收入之上，两者之间就并没有可靠的关联。
3. Birds store energy as subcutaneous fat deposits or "body reserves"; changes in these reserves can be reliably estimated by measuring changes in body mass. 鸟类以皮下脂肪沉积或“身体储备”的形式储存能量；通过测量体重的变化，可以可靠地估计这些储备的变化。
4. John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly "thin slice" information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in the "thick sliced" long-term study. 婚姻专家约翰·戈特曼解释说，只有长期进行“大块”信息的基础研究，我们才能快速而又可靠地做出反应，实现“薄片式”信息切分。
5. At Westville Hospital, dermatological diagnostic costs were reduced by the purchase of a new imaging machine that diagnoses skin cancer in such cases as reliably as the tissue tests do. 在韦斯特维尔医院，购买了一台新的可以像组织测试一样可靠地诊断皮肤癌的成像设备，从而降低了皮肤科诊断的费用。
