Many bright young things prefer a newer app called Hinge.

许多亮丽的年轻人的事物都来自一个更新的应用：hinge。

These things happen: bright young things never last long in backwaters.

情况总是这样：年轻有为的人决不会在死水中待很久。

Are chief executives really still interested in paying bright young things to tell them how to run their businesses?

如今首席执行官是否真的还有兴趣，付钱给聪明的年轻人来告诉他们怎样打理自己的生意？

Bright young things in football often get compared with the game's greats. Some of them living up to their billing, other rays of light prove to be false dawns.

足球场上的新秀经常会被拿来和巨星作比较，有些人达到了对他们的期望，其他只是昙花一现。

It used to be that bright young things straight out of Chinese universities would clamour for scarce jobs in the gleaming offices of the world's shiniest multinationals.

搁在过去，聪明能干的中国年轻人一出大学校门，就会去争抢世界最知名跨国公司明亮办公室里那几个稀少的职位。