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Performance: a friend had wanted to expand the memory, the results of capacity rather than smaller.

表现：朋友本来想扩充内存，结果容量反而变小了。

As the Book of Common Order had never been an absolute formulary like the Book of Common Prayer in England, but rather a standard and model of worship, the minister was given freedom for extempore prayer as well as flexibility of usage.

作为这本书的共同秩序从来不是一个绝对的处方一样，这本书的共同祈祷，在英格兰，而是一个标准和模式的崇拜，这位部长是由於自由即兴祈祷以及灵活的使用。

But it had the advantage of being emancipated from cymbal-crashing and falsetto singing, and of dealing with living material rather than with meaningless historial intrigues that are the concern of the decadent Chinese opera.

但是有点事从锣鼓铙钹和假嗓歌唱中解放出来，采用活的题材而不像腐朽的中国京剧那种没有意义的历史故事。

Contrary to this consensus,the present paper expounds and proves that Cao Xueqin,far from being a fatalist,had founded a rather integrated ideological system of his own by shaking off the yoke of all kinds of the then ideologies.

本文论证曹雪芹不仅不是宿命论者，而且还冲出了当时各种思想的束缚，创立了自己的一个相当完整的思想体系。

I rather enjoyed the comfort of the situ-ation, although most of my friends had foul breath or fetid odors about them.

我非常喜欢这种舒服，虽然我大多数朋友都有难闻的口气和臭味。

Robert Audley would have assented to a far more disagreeable proposition than this, rather than have taken the trouble to oppose his friend, so the matter was immediately agreed upon; and after they had finished their breakfast, and ordered a four o'clock dinner, George Talboys took the fishing-rod across his broad shoulders, and strode out of the house with his friend and companion.

罗伯特·奥德利宁可接受一个远比这个意见更不符合心意的建议，也不愿自找麻烦去反对他的朋友，所以这件事立刻就取得了一致意见；他们吃完早餐之后，便预订了四点钟的一顿正餐，乔治·托尔博伊斯将钓竿扛在宽阔的肩膀上，跟他的朋友兼同伴一起大步走出屋子去了。

I would be prepared to submit to the Congress of the United States, and with every expectation of approval, any such plan that would, first, encourage world-wide investigation into the most effective peacetime uses of fissionable material, and with the certainty that they had all the material needed for the conduct of all experiments that were appropriate; second, begin to diminish the potential destructive power of the world's atomic stockpiles; third, allow all peoples of all nations to see that, in this enlightened age, the great Powers of the earth, both of the East and of the West, are interested in human aspirations first rather than in building up the armaments of war; fourth, open up a new channel for peaceful discussion and initiate at least a new approach to the many difficult problems that must be solved in both private and public conversations, if the world is to shake off the inertia imposed by fear and is to make positive progress toward peace.

我将准备好服从美国国会和每个正式批准的指望，任何计划都会，首先，鼓励全世界研究进入最多最有效的和平时期的裂变物质的使用，并用这些确实的事情，他们拥有的所有材料需要实验去操行，那是正确的；第二，开始减小世界库存的可能破坏力；第三，允许所有国家的人民观看，在这个文明时期，东西方的世界强国对人类的第一渴望非常感兴趣的，比起建立战争的军队来说；第四，为和平的讨论打开新的渠道并开始一个至少接近很多苦难问题，这必须要解决秘密的和公众的会谈，如果世界摆脱了用恐怖欺骗的惯性，那么就会获得肯定的和平进步。

Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know—though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.

晚上七点一过，我身穿一套白法兰绒便装走过去到他的草坪上，很不自在地在一群群我不认识的人中间晃来晃去——虽然偶尔也有一个我在区间火车上见过的面扎。

She had a peculiar face; fleshless and haggard as it is, I rather like it

她脸长得特别，尽管瘦削憔悴，我倒有点喜爱它。

Strong man though he was, there is no doubt that he had behaved rather foolishly over the medicine.

虽然他是个坚强的人，可是在吃药这点上，他无疑是有点憷头的。

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