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Rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind.

习惯于多动脑筋而不是少动脑筋的人，在进入老年以后，要比一个从来不积极动脑子的人的认知能力更为健全。

Someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind.

熟悉历史的人所做的更多不是没有意识到了步入老年对健康有更清醒的认识比那些很少进行智力活动的人。

Already, in the later times of the Roman empire, predial slavery had extensively transformed itself into a kind of serfdom: the coloni of the Romans were rather villeins than actual slaves

在罗马帝国的后期，奴隶制就巳经广泛地转变成了一种农奴制。罗马人的所谓coloni与其说是事实上的奴隶不如说是农奴。

Commodus wished to rename the city of Rome the colonia Commodiana, which illustrates two characteristics of these new sorts of colonies. In the first place, the status of colony was considered honorific. In the third century, after all the inhabitants of the empire had become citizens, the colonial status was much sought after in the east, for reasons that must have involved prestige rather than practical benefit. Second, the change in status entailed no introduction of Roman settlers. The population remained unchanged.

康茂德皇帝曾想将罗马本城改名为科洛尼阿·康茂迪亚纳(Colonia Commodiana，即为康茂德所建的殖民城)，这表明种改称的新型殖民城有两个特点：其一，殖民城的地位被视作是荣耀的，到3世纪所有帝国居民都被授予罗马公民权之后，在东方城市间仍努力寻求这种殖民城的地位，其原因更多是为了这一名号的威望，而不是实际的利益；其二，这种城镇地位上的变化不必引入任何罗马拓殖者，该地人口仍维持原样。

I had never been spontaneously approached by a publisher and such condescension rather turned my head.

这是英格兰为数不多的拥有棕榈树和一条海滨木板路的地方。

He had inherited an organization , or rather a congeries of organizations .

他继承了一个组织，或者不如说一大堆组织。

But, while the Anglican church was sunk in spiritual and intellectual lethargy in the South, and while it had a rather attenuated existence in the Middle states, an event occurred in New England in 1722 which was of the greatest promise for the future of Anglicanism, and which shook Congregationalism in New England to its very foundations.

但是，尽管圣公会被击沉，在精神和智力的沉睡在南方，而它造成了比较大的衰减存在，在中东国家，即一个事件发生在新英格兰地区，在1722年，这是最大的承诺，为未来的anglicanism ，而摇头公理，在新英格兰，其根本基础。

Most spectacular, he found that the planet Venus had phases—powerful evidence that the Copernican view of our solar system, in which the sun, rather than the earth, is at the center, was correct.

最引人注目的是，伽利略发现金星有位相—这是证明哥白尼学派认为太阳系的中心是太阳而不是地球的观点正确的强有力的证据。

While I regret the embarrassment that my June 6th statement caused Councilwoman Chen, it would never have happened had she been doing her job and helping the people of Taipei rather then seeking pre-election publicity with the unsubtle tactic of waving my nude images in front of television cameras.

因为我曾於6月6日的声明中暗示他应该多聆听人民的声音以达到为民服务的本质；但以我目前知所见，陈市议员孋辉似乎还是对在摄影机前挥动者我的裸体写真和在选举前造势要比为民服务来的有兴趣的多！

Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air,the two corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious look

马格洛大娘的神气是伶俐、活泼、善良的，她的两只嘴角，一高一低，上唇厚，下唇薄，使她显得怫郁和躁急。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷