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He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.

但在他着手进行这一调查的过程中，一种可怕的迷惑力，一种尽管依然平静、却是猛烈的必然性，却紧紧地将这老人攫在自己的掌握之中，而且在他未完成它的全部旨意之前。

A few people took note when the U.S. Internal Revenue Service ruled earlier this month that a former contractor whom we had worked with as part of our Second Life "greeters" program should be classified as an employee rather than an independent contractor.

很少人注意到月初出台新规定，先前在我们生活中一直以数字人生&引领者&形象出现的美国国内税务承包商如今应被划入企业雇员的范畴，而不再是一位独立的承包商了。

I'm also still convinced that fewer civilians died than would have perished if we had put in ground troops, a bridge I would nevertheless have crossed rather than let Milosevic prevail.

我如今仍然相信，空袭比派遣地面部队能更好地减少了平民的死亡，要不是为了让米洛舍维奇屈服，我不会下这一步棋。

Castruccio felt a chill of horror run through his frame; the scene before him appeared for a moment as a reality, rather than a representation; the Arno seemed a yawning gulph, where the earth had opened to display the mysteries of the infernal world; when suddenly a tremendous crash stamped with tenfold horror the terrific mockery.

卡斯特鲁乔不寒而栗；他一度感觉眼前的情景不是演戏而是现实；阿诺河仿佛是大地张开的血盆大口，显露着地下不为人知的隐秘；忽然，一声巨响，人们惊恐万状，台上的闹剧也没让他们如此恐慌。

By the right which makes me your bounden slave for ever and ever, whether you will or no. By right of the love I bear you, Clara, cried Mr. Audley, dropping on his knees,--rather awkwardly, it must be confessed--and covering a soft little hand, that he had found half-hidden among the folds of a silken dress, with passionate kisses.

就凭那使我永远成为你的奴隶的权利，不论你愿意与否；就凭我对你所抱的热爱之情，克莱拉，奥德利先生大声说道，跪了下来——必须承认，颇为笨拙地跪了下来——并且找到了一半儿藏在绸衣裳的衣褶里的一只柔软小手，把热情的亲吻盖了上去。

The third one said,"Father, the kingdom is mine, for I am so lazy that if I were going to be hanged and already had the rope around my neck, and someone put into my hand a sharp knife with which to cut the rope, I would let myself be hanged rather than to lift my hand up to the rope."

第三个儿子说：&爸爸，这王位是我的，因为我是你最懒的儿子，如果我就要被吊起来，绳子已经套在了脖子上，有人把一把锋利的小刀塞在我手里，要我切断绳子，我宁愿被吊起来也懒得抬起手把绳子割断。&

T he third one said,"Father, the kingdom is mine, for I am so lazy that if I were going to be hanged and already had the rope around my neck, and someone put into my hand a sharp knife with which to cut the rope, I would let myself be hanged rather than to lift my hand up to the rope."

第三个儿子说：&爸爸，这王位是我的，因为我是你最懒的儿子，如果我就要被吊起来，绳子已经套在了脖子上，有人把一把锋利的小刀塞在我手里，要我切断绳子，我宁愿被吊起来也懒得抬起手把绳子割断。&

The third one said, Father, the kingdom is mine, for I am so lazy that if I were going to be hanged and already had the rope around my neck, and someone put into my hand a sharp knife with which to cut the rope, I would let myself be hanged rather than to lift my hand up to the rope.

&第三个儿子说，&父亲，王位是我的，由于我太懒了，所以如果有绳子在我的脖子上悬挂着，并且有人给我一把能割断绳子的锋利刀子，我也宁愿让自己继续悬挂着而不愿动手去把绳子割断。

He studied the young man on the white horse more carefully: he had a long handsome face (in a rather well-bred sort of way), lively sparkling eyes, and was wearing a dark silk gown and a hat set with a piece of jade.

&只见这汉子一张长脸，双目炯炯有神，穿一袭青绸长袍，帽子上镶了块白玉，衣饰打扮显是个富家子弟，韦小宝出身微贱，最憎有钱人家的子弟，在地下重重吐了口唾沫，说道：&他妈的，老子倒骑千里马，骑得正快活，却碰到拦路尸，阻住了……阻住了老子……一口气喘不过来，伏在马屁股上大咳。

Many thoughts, strong and weak, rushed through Jurgen's brain, and he said to Else:"If Martin had a house like mine, which of us would you rather have?"

许多思想——坚强的和脆弱的思想——都集中到雨尔根的脑子里来。他问爱尔茜：&如果莫尔登也有我这样的一座屋子，你情愿要谁呢？&

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