THE heavens do not lend themselves to poking and prodding.

天空不会帮助任何企图研究它的行为。

But they do not readily lend themselves to theoretical generalisations.

但他们并不容易将自己借给理论概括。

Tall buildings don't necessarily lend themselves to being social buildings.

高层建筑不一定适合成为社会建筑。

Do you have any items of clothing that might lend themselves to a costume?

您有任何可以搭配服装的衣服吗？

Like, you know, everybody's closet has different things that lend themselves to certain costumes.

就像，你知道，每个人的衣柜里都有不同的东西适合某些服装。

They travel quickly when they lend themselves to gossipy soundbites, sick humour and tasteless online memes.

当他们喜欢流言蜚语、恶心的幽默和无味的网络表情包时，他们的旅行速度很快。

It's a common misconception that only extroverts make for natural leaders, but in fact, introverts have certain innate strengths that also lend themselves to excellent leadership.

这是一个普遍的错误观念：只有外向者才是天生的领导人。但事实上，内向者蕴藏着一股内在的力量，使他们成为优秀的领导者。

Another reason , which is related , is that electoral cycles lend themselves to a culture of short-termism, with a need for immediate, quantifiable measurements and results.

即使这样，政治家们还是难以完全理解这一众所周知的难题 —— 幸福的确切内涵。其中之一的原因是幸福与健康通常都不能通过统计分析来表示。政治家们满脑子的投入与产出、目标与调控，而对于诸如人们有多看重与家人共度时光之类的、无法用数字测量的概念，他们往往感到困惑不已。另一与之相关的原因是：一轮轮的竞选让他们置身于急功近利的氛围，期待立竿见影的、量化的测量手段与结果。

But anyway one of the main reasons herding only caught on in certain parts of the world is that there aren't that many animals that lend themselves to domestication.

但无论如何，放牧只在世界某些地区流行的主要原因之一是没有那么多适合驯化的动物。

Because capital and intangible assets are highly mobife, they lend themselves to pure tax arbitrage-which strives to allocate profits not for greater economic efficiency, but merely to cheat the tax collector.

因为资本和无形资产具有高度的流动性，它们适用于纯粹的税收套利，这种套利旨在分配利润并不是为了更大的经济效益，而仅仅是为了欺骗税务人员。

It is an argument strategy that tends to be used in moral debates — a lot of the concerns around abortion, genetic manipulation, things of this nature, they lend themselves to slippery-slope arguments.

这是一种倾向于在道德辩论中使用的论证策略——许多关于堕胎、基因操纵等此类性质的问题，它们都容易导致滑坡论证。