As with what的意思|示意

Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and think it only right and natural that they determine what their children do with their lives.

有时，父母把孩子看作是自己的延续，他们认为自己决定孩子在生活中做什么是绝对正确和理所当然的。

It's easy to shrug this off as someone else's problem while living with a vast gap between the social connections one has and what one desires.

当生活在一个人拥有的社会关系和他想要的社会关系之间存在巨大的鸿沟时，人们很容易把这个问题当作别人的问题而不予理睬。

I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.

和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了，就像我写的东西必须是事实，不能虚构，但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象，去创作。

As far as quality is concerned, we must not make do with what we have, but must constantly strive for excellence.

在质量[品质]方面，不能将就，要精益求精。

What they cannot build, they will buy, as they have begun to do with Volvo and many other established brands, including regional ones.

他们不能建造的东西，他们会去购买，就像他们开始收购沃尔沃和许多其他老牌品牌一样，包括一些地区性品牌。

As impressive as all this is, it may be trivial compared with what comes next.

尽管这一切令人印象深刻，但与接下来发生的事情相比，这便微不足道了。