A few years ago, we became concerned that we were not moving the needle on poverty.

几年前，我们开始担心我们没有在消除贫困方面取得进展。

So we're working hard, but we're not placing them correctly and they're not profitable, so we're not moving the needle at all.

结果就是，我们努力工作，但没有把代理人放在合适的地方，他们也没有获得收益，因此，我们并能有效地解决问题。

In the big scheme of things like how we Really moving the needle forward to making a different, of cause, you know what I mean.

我们如何在事物发展过程中，在事物微小，初期的状态，推动其发展，改变世界，是的，你知道我的意思吧。

She looked up from her knitting and, with her fingers still moving the needles, she said, Old people have their secrets, just as young people do.

老人从活计上抬起头，手指不停地忙着，“老年人也有他们的想法，跟你们年轻人一样。”她说道。