查询词典 Europeans

The Balts and central Europeans have experienced a catch-up in living standards undreamed-of under communism.

波罗地海各国和中欧地区的生活水平已经得到了极大的改善，而这在共产主义统治时期则是做梦都难以想象的。

Until that time, almost all Europeans believed Aristotle's old idea that the Earth is the unmoving center of the universe.

在此之前，几乎所有的欧洲人相信亚里士多德的旧思想，地球是宇宙中心的。

Surely at least one reason was that these white Christian Europeans look and think extraordinarily like most British people, and their children and grandchildren will be distinguishable only by their unpronounceable names.

当然，有个原因是肯定的：那些东欧的基督徒也都是白皮肤，看上去跟英国人很相似，想法似乎也大同小异，他们的子孙除了个拗口的名字就更难分辨了。

Curiously for the unreligious E.U., extra-learned Catholic Curia priests, proficient in a dozen languages, would be the only officials able to talk to almost all Europeans.

有趣的是，对于一个非常不宗教的欧盟，那些才高八斗学富五车并却会说一打儿语言的天主教宗教法庭的神父们，是唯一可以代表欧洲人说话的官员。

Now, as the president jets off for a series of meetings with America's allies in Europe, it is Afghanistan that is starting to look unwinnable—and the Europeans, especially those in NATO, want to know if he will fight on.

现在，正当总统先生要飞往欧洲与美国盟友召开一系列会议的时候，阿富汗开始露出不好的苗头---欧洲，尤其是北约成员国，想要知道奥巴马还要打下去吗？

Europeans like to mock the vapidity of American politics, but they also acknowledge that it would be difficult to imagine a brown or black person leading France or Germany.

欧洲人常嘲讽美国政治无聊乏味，但他们也不得不承认，无法想像由黄种人或黑人领导法国或德国。

In that brief period of "shock and awe" when Americans were from Mars, their Venutian allies were lucky to get invited to the show (indeed, in Afghanistan some "old" Europeans were initially turned away).

美国人从火星回来后，在那个"震惊与敬畏"的简短时间里，他们的 Venutian 盟友们有幸受邀参加阿富汗的表演（事实上，在阿富汗起初是拒绝了一些"老"欧洲人的）。

Francis Verney is one of those Europeans who instead chose to go Turkish, and became a much feared pirate.

Francis Verney 是那些选择去土耳其的欧洲人之一，后来也成为了一名令人闻风丧胆的海盗。

Teepees are a kind of tent, wampum belts were made of beads and since the belts had great value Europeans used wampum to mean 'money'.

Teepee 是一种帐篷，贝克数珠腰带由贝壳串的珠子做成。由于这种腰带很值钱，欧洲人用wampum来指"钱"。

Here in the UK, it seems that we use energy very wastefully - according to recent surveys, we are amongst the most wasteful Europeans when it comes to energy in our homes.

在英国，我们好像十分浪费能源——通过近来的调查，在家庭能源方面，我们是最浪费的欧洲国家之一。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。