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Her sense of perpetual otherness was extended by encounters with childhood friends who had escaped Cracow to grow up in Israel, rather than Canada or the United States, and were preoccupied with soldiers, not scholars.

她的感觉是永恒的差异性与延长童年谁逃出克拉科夫成长在以色列，而不是加拿大或美国，并与战士们全神贯注，而不是学者的朋友接触。

Rio's Australian managing director Steven Creese told the inquiry that SOEs had become increasingly important and the government should view them "as an opportunity rather than a threat".

力拓澳大利亚公司的常务董事Steven Creese面对质询说，国有企业变得越来越重要，政府应该把他们"看作是更多的机遇，而不是威胁。"

When the 150,000-ton Queen Mary II docked here last spring, the city took a public-relations hit as bewildered passengers, rather than docking in Victoria Harbor, had to disembark at a gritty container port -- the only facility that could accommodate the massive Cunard Lines ship.

去年春天，当冠达邮轮旗下的大型游轮"玛丽皇后二号"到访香港时，维多利亚港实在无法容纳这艘15万吨的巨轮，最后"皇后"只好屈尊停泊在了集装箱码头，港府的公关形像也因此受到了打击。

Rather degage after the nervousness he had shown at dinner- Edmund Wilson.

他在宴会中神经过敏之后又显示出相当的从容－埃德蒙。

She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but, rather, with a note of apology in her voice, and fear

她说话的口气并不含有我已完全习惯了的那种直截了当的、含讥讽的敌意，而是声音里带着几分歉意，还有恐惧。

If the two secondary cases had been considered members of a cult rather than the individuals suffering from shared psychotic disorder, they may have been found ineligible for an insanity defense at the time of their actions because they would not have evidenced a diagnosable mental illness.

如果两个继发性病例已经考虑而不是从共享精神错乱的个人的一个邪教组织成员，他们可能已经发现，特别在他们的行动，因为当时精神错乱资格证明他们不会有一个诊断的精神病。

The tradition of Alexandria was rather that which Dionysius the Great had received from Pope Dionysius.

传统的亚历山大是相反，这修斯大已收到教皇修斯。

He had the manners of a disobliging steamroller (most steamrollers are abjectly obliging and conciliatory); and he was rather less particular about his dress than a scarecrow: in fact he was once arrested as a tramp because the police refused to believe that such a tatterdemalion could be a famous composer, much less a temple of the most turbulent spirit that ever found expression in pure sound.

他有一架不听话的蒸汽轧路机的风度（大多数轧路机还恭顺地听使唤和不那么调皮）；他穿衣服之不讲究甚于田间的稻草人：事实上有一次他竟被当做流浪汉给抓了起来，因为警察不肯相信穿得这样破破烂烂的人竟会是一位大作曲家，更不能相信这副躯体竟能容得下纯音响世界最奔腾澎湃的灵魂。

Disutility must be here understood to cover every kind of reason which might lead a man, or a body of men, to withhold their labour rather than accept a wage which had to them a utility below a certain minimum.

负效用的理解应该涵盖各种原因，它们可能导致一个人或一群人宁愿失业也不愿意接受对他们来说其效用低于某一最低限度的工资。

If the disutility of risk to a general counsel is great, he will prefer to \\\"overpay\\\" law firms rather than trying to explain to the CEO that the novel compensation deal that he worked out with the law firm that lost the case was not a factor in the loss; that he had not been penny wise and pound foolish.

如果对于公司总顾问的无效风险很大，他宁肯增加对律师事务所的支付也不会试图向CEO解释他同律师事务所达成的输掉案件的交易的报酬不是导致失败的一个因素，也不会说他从来不会因小失大。

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