Paul Graham, a partner at the Y Combinator startup accelerator, wrote in 2007 that startups usually die because they run out of money or a founder leaves.

Eighteen percent of employers said they have found content on social networking sites that caused them to hire the candidate, CareerBuilder said.

CareerBuilder网站称，18%的雇主说他们在社交网站上发现过让他们决定雇佣某位应聘者的内容。

Trying to get that girl to break the rules.

你还试图引诱某位小姐犯错误。

An art gallery will host a visiting performance artist;

一家画廊即将为某位来访的行为艺术家办展；

Coach-cabin passengers were at a 3.6% increased risk of contracting H1N1 if they sat within two rows of someone who had symptoms in-flight.

对于普通舱的乘客而言，如果距离其两排以内的某位乘客在飞行途中已有H1N1流感症状，那么该乘客感染H1N1流感病毒的风险将增加3.6%。

Brooklyn comedian Craig Rowin made a YouTube appeal for somebody to give him$ 1 million two months ago and thus attracted tens of thousands of clicks.

纽约布鲁克林喜剧演员克莱格罗文两个月前在Youtube视频网站上发布视频，希望某位富翁无偿给他1百万美元，赢得千万点击量。

A CEO that announces that he or she is going to reorganize the company's sales force and then follows through will win a certain amount of credibility.

例如，如果某位CEO宣布重组公司的销售队伍，并坚持到最后，当然可以赢得一定程度的信任。

'You would find that even if a top executive had term limits waived, there were term limits imposed on the nanny,' says Michael Fahy, Bermuda's minister of home affairs.

百慕大内政部部长迈克尔&12539；费伊（Michael Fahy）称：你会发现，即使某位高管能够免受居住限期的限制，保姆的居住限期仍然无法摆脱。

There's more: Even if a given CEO made the top 10 for only one year, the stock lost value for three years afterward, compared to the shares of other companies in the same industry.

此外，即使其中某位特定的CEO的薪酬只有某一年入围过前10，随后的三年，这位CEO所在公司的股票价值都会相对同行业的其他公司股票出现下跌。

Some bright spark at the university has lost my application.

大学里的某位聪明的家伙把我的申请书弄丢了。

STAN: A blend of 'stalker' and 'fan', i.e. someone that is overly obsessed with celebrity

铁杆粉丝：stalker（跟踪者）和fan（粉丝）的合成词，指的是极度迷恋某位明星的人。

He noticed a huge crowd gathered outside — someone really famous must be staying there

他注意到外面聚集了乌压压一大群人——一定是有某位大名人在那里。

When a public figure's tweet results in big buzz, Twitter makes sure other celebrities know it.

有哪些是效果不甚理想的？当某位公众人物的微博引起轰动时，Twitter就会确保其他明星知道。

You may find it difficult to communicate with someone at work.

你可能难以和某位同事交流。

Many of these television commercials attack a candidate's opponent.

许多电视广告对某位候选人的竞争对手进行攻击。

For instance, one customer had an interesting dilemma.

例如，某位客户有一个有趣的两难问题。

You're not some distant cousin of mine, are you?

你不是我的某位远房表亲，对吧？

Next time, Jim Cramer or some other talking head calls for the firing of another CEO, pause for a moment.

下一次，当吉姆？克拉姆（Jim Cramer）或是其他评论员呼吁开掉某位CEO的时候，请别那么着急。

What is the average time it takes someone to sign in?

某位用户登录所花费的平均时间？

Then the next week, the Estate Agent calls to say that someone who viewed the property previously3 has put in an offer a few thousand pounds above yours.

紧接着，下一周，房产中介就给你打电话，说之前看过房的某位客户出价比你多了数千英镑。

If someone started investing in 1802 and kept his money in stocks only during September, he would have lost more than half of his money by 2006, according to researchers at the University of Kansas.

堪萨斯大学（University of Kansas）的研究人员发现，如果某位投资者从1802年进入股市，而且只在九月进行投资，那么到2006年他会亏掉一半以上的资金。