good thing

The Internet may be disrupting much of the book industry, but for short-story writers it has been a good thing.

互联网可能正在颠覆图书行业的多个领域，但是对于短篇小说作家来说却是一件好事。

Historians looking back on our time, I suspect, will have no doubt that the arrival of email was a good thing.

我承认当史学家们将来回顾我们这个时代的时候，一定会对电子邮件的出现给予肯定。

Dr Murray and I believe that people with autistic traits are part of the normal variety of human beings and that variety is a good thing.

Murray博士和我认为，有孤独症特征的人属于正常人中有差异的一群，而有差异是好事情。

Now, let me stress that I am not trying to argue that price falls are a good thing; a severe deflationary spiral is clearly dangerous.

在此，我要强调一句。我并不是在主张物价下降是好事；严重的通缩螺旋无疑很危险。

But I pretended not to know nothing, do not ask him, do not you call him, not to his quarters to find him, no time really is a good thing!

只是我装作不知道而已，不问他，不打电话给他，不去他宿舍找他，没时间还真是件好事！

May I ask? You spoke of honoring obligations as if it's a good thing?

我想请问？守信还债对你而言好像是件好事？

Regulators took the naive view that this was a good thing because risks were spread across more institutions.

监管机构天真地认为这是件好事，因为风险分散到了更多的机构身上。

You were the last good thing about this part of town.

你在我眼中是这个城市最后的美丽

There is no sign of the two wayward whales that have been lost near San Francisco and that could be a good thing.

迷失在旧金山附近水域的两条任性的鲸鱼在没有任何征兆的情况下消失，这可能会是件好事。

He seemed to think this was a good thing and added that he thought digging up bodies was "sick" .

他看起来认为这是件好事，补充说他觉得把尸体挖出来很“恶心”。

This leaves aside the question of whether it's a good thing for one company to hold such a position of power.

这里搁置了一个问题：对于一家公司来说，拥有这样的权利是否是一件好事。

Now, if you're a member of a garage band that's trying to get its music out to an audience, maybe this is all a good thing.

现在，如果你是一个车库乐队的成员，试图把你的音乐传播给你的听众，互联网传播对你可能是件好事。

He had returned home, he said, because his 'master' at Baiyunguan, the Taoist temple in Beijing, suggested it might be a good thing to do.

他说，他之所以回家，是因为他在北京道教寺庙白云观的“大师”认为他回家可能是一件好事。

She's on to a good thing in her new job: high wages, practically no income tax and a rent-free house.

她找到的新的工作可真舒服：工资高，几乎不必纳所得税，而且还有一座免交租金的房子。

In a world where I'm trying to connect the economic and power and political relations, that's not a good thing.

在我努力联缀经济、权力和政治关系的这个世界里，这不是好事。

This is probably a good thing for a news site, because people need at least a bit of time to digest news.

这对于新闻站点而言可能是个不错的选择，因为人们需要一点时间来接受信息。

It was a weird accident, and had I been mentally prepared to handle the responsibility, it would have been a good thing.

这是次奇怪的机遇，如果我心理上准备的更充足一些，去承受更多责任，它或许是件好事。

That sort of degree of openness to public debate can only be a good thing.

这种公开辩论的开放程度只会是件好事。

But in some ways, assuming the Rockets stopped getting hurt and get a few guys healthy, the tough road losses might be a good thing.

当然从某些方面看来，如果火箭能远离伤病，人人健康，那么这次艰苦的客场之旅也许并非坏事。

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

他并没有把这些话说出口，因为他知道，如果你把好事情说出来，那么这件事也许就不会发生了。