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If you're going touring with your recumbent, you might want to consider a trike – a bike with three wheels rather than two.

如果你想你的卧位，您可能要考虑三轮车-一位有三个，而不是两个轮子自行车旅游。

Trixie Pearson's family went on poor relief rather than pull her out of Oxford during the Depression, and she later realised that the "bursary" her college gave her in fact came straight out of her tutors' pockets.

在大萧条时期，特里克西●皮尔森的家人宁可靠救济金生活，也要让她继续牛津大学的学业；后来她才知道，学院发给她的&奖学金&实际上全部是她的导师们个人支付的。

Trixie Pearson's family went on poor relief rather than pull her out of Oxford during the Depression, and she later realised that the "bursary" her college gave her in fact came straight out of her tutors' pockets.

特里克茜。皮尔逊的家人即使在大萧条时期仍然一直接济她，没让她从牛津大学退学，而且她后来才意识到她大学里的&奖学金&实际上是她的导师直接从自己的口袋里拿出来的。

Rather than being trousered by a shop assistant.

而不会被售货员收入囊中

Shopkeepers can do away with expensive cash floats and elaborate ruses to stop cash fraud—such as charging $4.99 so that the $5 bill most people hand over has to pass through the till for one cent change rather than being trousered by a shop assistant.

店主不在有处理大额现金的烦恼，亦不用再绞尽脑汁去想如何制止那些现金诈骗了——比如说给一个商品定价4.99美元，而大多数人都会递出一张五美元，这样这张五美元就必须经过以获得一美分找零，而不会被售货员收入囊中。

Shopkeepers can do away with expensive cash floats and elaborate ruses to stop cash fraud—such as charging $4.99 so that the $5 bill most people hand over has to pass through the till for one cent change rather than being trousered by a shop assistant.

店主不在有处理大额现金的烦恼，亦不用再绞尽脑汁去想如何制止那些现金诈骗了——比如说给一个商品定价4.99美元，而大多数人都会递出一张五美元，这样这张五美元就必须经过储币抽屉以获得一美分找零，而不会被售货员收入囊中。

Truthiness - the practice of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than facts

你认识镇上的每一个人，每个人都和你的生活有着这样那样的联系。

The system's real-time response allows managers to adjust the tubemaking process as variations are detected, rather than after an entire production run is completed.

系统实时响应允许管理人员随检测到的变化调整管子制造过程，而不是整个生产完成后。

It is better for retirees to do something meaningful rather than twiddling their thumbs every day.

退休人员最好做些有意义的事，不要每天浪费时间。

The health minister, Ulla Schmidt, was forced to drop more dramatic proposals, like allowing health funds to have contracts with individual doctors, rather than collective agreements with doctors' associations.

新的计划准备将一些医疗成本转嫁到个人头上，比如说看牙医。德国卫生部长Ulla Schmidt被迫放弃很多更吸引人的计划，比如说允许健康基金与单个的医生签订合同，而不是与整个医生协会订立协议。

But this is impossible, as long as it is engaging in a market economy, there are risks in any operation.

但是，这是不可能的，只要是搞市场经济，是有风险的任何行动。

We're on the same wavelength.

我们是同道中人。