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He was prone to scan with a narrow eye the pleasures and foibles of youthful desire.

凡是青年人在情欲上感到的快乐和流露的弱点，他都用一种严密的眼光监视着。

Unless you married a robot, your partner comes pre-loaded with a whole range of human failures and foibles.

除非你与一个机器人结婚，否则你的情人天生就会有人的缺点和不足。

For most of the 20th century the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the brainier, sexier, trendier of the two: its suburbs and freeways, its fads and foibles, its marvellous miscegenation have spread around the world.

几乎整个20世纪，硅谷和好莱坞一直都是加州人才培养、性感及时尚潮流的家园。它的城乡发展、道路建设、时尚、癖好以及多种族通婚影响了全世界。

Alternately anvil and hammer, Morocco has seen the glories and the foibles of man , his triumphs and degradations

摩洛哥或为刀俎，或为鱼肉，历尽人间沧桑，有显赫的时候，也有衰败的时候。

The reade r not only watches Smith's growth,but also gets a tour of a futuristic Earth an d all the foibles of human society.

读者 不仅看到史密斯的成长，而且得知了一系列未来地球的情况和人类社会所有的弱点。

Then I recovered and saw its greatness afresh. The O.E.D., Shea notes, is "a catalog of the foibles of the human condition."

不过冷静下来想想，OED确实是一本了不起的书，因为它是人类痴狂史的记录。

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。