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You quickly conclude that this newfangled chainsaw thing is just a fad, and you go back to chopping down trees with your axe.

您很快就会得出结论，电锯这种新工具只不过是一种时尚，最后还是改用斧子来砍树。

After a few years, it was clear that software as a service wasn't just a fad, it was a solid business.

几年后，形势已经明朗化：作为一种服务的云计算不仅仅是一时的风潮，而是一门可靠的生意。

Yet, in the West, standards of cleanliness seem to have moved beyond science into the realm of fashion and fad.

然而，在西方，清洁的标准似乎超过了科学而进入到了一种流行或者时尚的潮流中。

Although Cyndi might be best known for her wild costumes and video antics of the 80s, she has shown that she wasn't just a fad of the 80s.

尽管辛蒂的闻名是她的狂野造型和80年代音乐录影中的古怪动作，但她所表现出的自我根本不是80年代的时尚。

Is sesame-oil and chili hotpot with its spicy layer of red sauce going to be the next popular eating fad?

一锅漂著一层红咚咚辣油的麻辣火锅，有可能成为下一波的流行吗？

This global warming fad trying to use a guilt trip about our carbon footprints is a fraud to squeeze more money out of us.

这全球变暖的时尚，试图使用有关我们碳足迹的犯罪之旅，是一项欺诈行为以从我们挤出更多钱。

Social media are certainly not a fad, and their impact is only just beginning to be felt.

社交媒体无疑不是短暂的时尚，它们的影响刚刚开始被感觉到。

Body piercing is something of a modern fad amongst youngsters (and some oldsters).

身体穿孔艺术在年轻人中间（甚至对个别年长人来说）都是时尚前卫的流行元素。

Sounds like another ridiculous fad to me. I suppose you've got to wrap yourself in cellophane and sit in a sauna!

又是一个荒谬的时髦。我觉得你应该把自己包在玻璃纸里，然后去蒸桑拿！

Physics tends to be dictated by fad and fashion. There are the gurus who dictate the direction in which new ideas grow.

物理学往往是直接与流行时尚挂钩。专家决定新思想的发展方向。

Glowing, transgenic lab animals seems to be a fad these days.

现在似乎很流行在实验室里通过转基因手段把动物弄得会发光。

direct investment can become a fad just like any other activity of an economic , social , or cultural character.

就象经济，社会或文化性质的任何其他活动一样，直接投资也可成为一种一朝风行的时尚。

We do not know whether this is part of an explicit government policy or merely a fad.

我们不知道这究竟是某项明确的政府政策，抑或只是流行一时的论调。

Call it a scam, but Ty's line of collectibles created the most insane fad frenzy of all time, and he now sits on billions.

你可以把这种设计叫做诡计，但Ty收集了所有时期最疯狂的时尚玩具。他现在坐拥数十亿美元资产。

The Scarsdale Diet was a popular fad for several years, it has a chart in here indicating what you ought to weigh.

好几年来，《斯卡斯代尔减肥书》盛行不衰，书里有一张表格指出人的标准体重。

The question now becomes this: Are courses in popular culture just a fad or a real trend?

疑问现在变成这：在大众文化的课程只是一个流行或一个真正的趋势吗？

There is something of a fad, it seems, for things Chinese.

现在看来，中国的东西似乎正在引导一阵印尼时尚潮流。

But NoSQL looks less like a fad, and more like an emerging foundation for highly scalable Web application development.

但NoSQL看起来不太像一种时尚，更像是高度可伸缩的Web应用程序开发的一个新兴基础。

In any case, as in years past, there are those who believe that paid online gaming is all a fad anyway.

然而正如同以往一样，有人相信付费在线游戏只不过是短暂的狂热。

This may seem like a crazy celebrity fad, but it's not such a bad one.

这也许会看起来像一个疯狂的名人时尚，但是这并不是那么糟糕。