I'll start by summarizing these changes before we open the meeting to questions.

在开始提问环节之前，我会首先总结一下这些改变。

But, a high school soccer player opened the meeting. Tori Bellucci is a skilled athlete.

但宣布会议开始的是一名高中足球运动员，托里·贝鲁奇是一名训练有素的运动员。

The eight South American countries, known as the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), opened the meeting on Tuesday.

被称为亚马逊合作条约组织的八个南美国家周二宣布会议开幕。

The nation's largest Protestant religious denomination, the Southern Baptists, opened their annual meeting today focused on sexual abuse.

国内最大的新教教徒教派“南方浸礼会” 今天举行年度会议，关注性侵问题。

A victory for a small town in New York states that regularly opens its council meeting with prayers.

纽约的一个小城镇取得了胜利，这个小镇可以在定期举行地方议会时进行祷告。

Their ideas from the metaverse became a safe and open meeting area in their neighborhood.

他们来自虚拟宇宙的想法成为他们社区中安全和开放的聚会场所。

No executive ever opens a meeting talking about how they woke up in their own clothes but in a total stranger's apartment.

没有哪位高管在会议开始时会去讲他们是怎样穿着自己的衣服，但在陌生人的公寓里醒过来。

China's finance minister Lou Jiwei opened the meeting saying the ultimate way out was structural reform to his country's economy.

中国财政部长楼继伟在会议开幕式上说， 最终的出路是对中国经济进行结构性改革。

There are a number of issues we would like to discuss, and I would like Chloe to open the meeting.

我们想讨论很多问题，我希望克洛伊主持会议。

In the advancement of their causes, of whatever kind, women of necessity had to make public appeals and take part in open meetings.

——为了推进她们的事业， 无论是何种形式，必要时，妇女都必须公开呼吁并参加公开会议。

Pierce agreed that Kansas was a serious problem. He seemed ready to act. So Reeder returned home and opened the first meeting of the territorial legislature.

皮尔斯同意堪萨斯是一个严重的问题，他似乎准备好行动了。于是，里德回去后召开了领土立法机构的第一次会议。

It has agreed to hear Town of Greece v Galloway, which concerns the prayers with which a town board in upstate New York opens its meetings, next autumn.

而最高法院已同意在今年秋季听审格里斯镇 v 盖洛威案，此案涉及位于纽约上州的该镇镇委员会召开会议时与会人员的祷告问题。

Several of these people were in management positions, and they said they liked the idea so much that they'd started opening their regular meetings in much the same way.

这些人当中有好几个都在管理位置，他们说太喜欢这个主意了，他们用几乎相同的方式来做例会的开场白。

Secondly, it's important to follow through with that and make sure that you're able to open the meeting five or 10 minutes early, give your participants time to get set up.

其次， 坚持这一点很重要， 确保能够提前五到十分钟开始会议，让与会者有时间做好准备。

I have noticed that many of my new peers like to open meetings with small personal anecdotes about something that happened to them that day-a minor cycling accident, say, or a chance encounter with an old acquaintance.

我注意到，我的许多新同事喜欢在会议开始时讲一些那天发生在他们身上的小故事，比如骑自行车的小事故，或者偶然遇见了一个老熟人。