查询词典 had rather

"I have, often. Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"

&我总是在想，庄严神圣的美、令人难以相信的聪明伶俐以及像天使一般的好孩子，它们相比，哪个更好呢？&

I had no idea how far the tunnel extended,and for along time,any light at the end of it was ahope rather than areality.

我不懂得还要在黑暗中走多久，很长一段时间中，我有的只是但愿，而不是现实。

My memory had in my adolescent age a keen affection for the exact dates of even nothing-to-speak-of happenings, so it would be something much of an astoundment that I should fail to recollect the deathday of Mr. Qian, in whose former residence I searched every nook and cranny, and paid two devout bows to the serene but ice-cold bust upon my first visit, or rather, pilgrimage.

要知道，第一次去钱老的故居参观（确切地说，是去&朝圣&），我可是恨不得把他家的每个细碎的角落看过来的，临走的时候，还对那尊安详却冰冷的半身像行了两个虔诚的大礼呢。

One thing was puzzling him, a little thing that would have puzzled the world had it known. But the world would have puzzled over his bepuzzlement rather than over the little thing that to him loomed gigantic.

他对自己引起的这番骚动的感觉与其说是有趣毋宁说是好笑。

The person I met with had a terrible case of blackheads, and I was rather distracted by it.

我在会上碰到的那个人有着非常非常严重的黑头，看到它们我觉得非常的心烦意乱。

Molly seems rather short of temper and even ornery at times while she was staying at the headquarters of the Order, but this attitude is somewhat explained by her reaction to the Boggart who had taken up residence in a drawing room desk.

在凤凰社总部的时候，她总是急躁的，而且随时随地都能和人争吵起来，但是这种态度或许可以对她对客厅桌子里的博格特作出那样的反应做出解释。

She had a cup of tea, which was rather strong, and very good bread and butter, and bottled damsons. Mrs Flint flushed and glowed and bridled with excitement, as if Connie were some gallant knight.

真的，在空旷的园中，有着一种幽灵似的灰星的徽光，突然地，他把她拉了过去，重新在她的衣裳下面摸抚着，他的湿而冷的手，触着她的温暖的肉体。

First, Bunce had a good long-range effort that just went wide and that was followed by Vernazza rather wasting a decent shooting opportunity, after good approach work from Marum and El Kholti.

先是邦斯一脚不错的远射稍稍偏出，接着是维尔纳扎浪费了一次由马拉姆和艾尔科迪联手创造的好机会。

Accordingly, to avoid future schisms it was first laid down that nobody was to be regarded as Roman pontiff unless he had been elected by two thirds of the cardinals (canon 1); all appointments by antipopes were deemed invalid (canon 2), heretics called Cathars were excommunicated and likewise were the bands of mercenaries, or rather criminals, which were causing utter destruction in some parts of Europe; it was declared, and this seems an innovation, that arms should be taken up against them (canon 27); it was also decided not to pass judgment about the preaching of the Waldensians .

因此，为了避免将来发生分裂，这是第一次订下的任何人都被视为罗马教皇，除非他已当选三分之二的枢机主教（佳能1）；所有任命由 antipopes 被视为无效（佳能2），所谓的异端 cathars 被驱逐，并同样被乐队的雇佣军，或者更确切地说，罪犯，其中造成极大破坏，在部分欧洲，它被宣布，这似乎是一个创新，即军控应采取行动对付他们（佳能27 ）；会上还决定，没有通过判决对说教的

Nicholas Kenner nailed me - again - at last year's meeting, pointing out that I had said in the 1990 annual report that he was 11 in May 1990, when actually he was 9. So, asked Nicholas rather caustically:"If you can't get that straight, how do I know the numbers in the back are correct?" I'm still searching for a snappy response. Nicholas will be at this year's meeting - he spurned my offer of a trip to Disney World on that day - so join us to watch a continuation of this lop-sided battle of wits.

去年股东会 Nicholas Kenner 又杠上我了，他表示：&我在去年 1990 年报中表示他在 1990 年 5 月 11 号满十岁，但事实上他那时才刚满 9 岁&，他接着又用很嘲讽的语气说：&如果你连这个都搞不清楚，我如何还能相信你报告中的其他数字是正确的&到现在我还在想如何做出一个有力的回答，今年 Nicholas 还会出席，他拒绝了我邀请他当天到迪士尼乐园玩的建议，所以请大家继续好好观赏这一面倒的机智问答。

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