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As I understand it, that was a valid objection urged by Momus (11) against the house which Minerva (12) made, that she "had not made it movable, by which means a bad neighborhood might be avoided"; and it may still be urged, for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is our own scurvy selves.

依照我所能理解的，莫墨斯曾经说过一句千真万确的话，来反对密涅瓦建筑的一座房屋，说她&没有把它造成可以移动的房屋，否则的话就可以从一个恶劣的邻居那儿迁走了&；这里还可以追上一句话，我们的房屋是这样不易利用，它把我们幽禁在里面，而并不是我们居住在里面；至于那需要避开的恶劣的邻居，往往倒是我们的可鄙的&自我&。

And when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him. As I understand it, that was a valid objection urged by Momus against the house which Minerva made, that she "had not made it movable, by which means a bad neighborhood might be avoided"; and it may still be urged, for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is our own scurvy selves.

依照我所能理解的，莫墨斯曾经说过一句千真万确的话，来反对密涅瓦建筑的一座房屋，说她&没有把它造成可以移动的房屋，否则的话就可以从一个恶劣的邻居那儿迁走了&；这里还可以追上一句话，我们的房屋是这样不易利用，它把我们幽禁在里面，而并不是我们居住在里面；至于那需要避开的恶劣的邻居，往往倒是我们的可鄙的&自我&。

After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and Half, as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup de Grace.

我们半划着桨，半被风驱赶着，大约走了四海里多。忽然一个巨浪排山倒海从我们后面滚滚而来，无疑将给我们的小艇以致命一击。

After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and a Half,* as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup de Grace.

我们半划着桨，半被风驱赶着，大约走了四海里多。忽然一个巨浪排山倒海从我们后面滚滚而来，无疑将给我们的小艇以致命一击。

Van Nistelrooy has had some practice-ground altercations since arriving in England, most notably with David Bellion and, this season, Cristiano Ronaldo, but his representatives point out that these are the exception rather than the norm.

范尼来到英格兰之后在训练场上的确和别人有过口角，最著名的是和贝利昂，本赛季是和罗纳尔多，但是他的代理人指出这些只是以外而非常态。

But talk as they would (often till two or three in the morning) they came no nearer to an answer; and perhaps this was not so very remarkable, for all sorts of magicians and antiquarians and scholars had been asking the same question for rather more than two hundred years.

但是，讨论归讨论（经常会持续到次日凌晨两三点钟），关于问题的答案，他们还是毫无进展。也许这种情况不足为奇，因为各种各样的魔法师、文物研究者和学者们思考这个问题已经超过二百年了。

He was very fond also of charioteers, favouring the "Greens".36 He held gladiatorial bouts rather frequently at his banquets, and after continuing the meal far into the night he would fall asleep on the banqueting-couch, so that he had to be lifted up along with the covers and carried to his bedroom.

他非常喜欢战车运动，支持&绿队&（36）。他时常在宴会时观看斗剑比赛，在一顿持续到深夜的大餐之后，他可能在宴会厅的长椅上睡着，别人只好把他连人带衣服一起抬到卧室去。

It was very informal and we had to establish a rather high-level process framework with basic checkpoints for the work.

这是很正规，我们已经建立了相当高级别进程框架基本检查站的工作。

Soon after the news broke last month that nearly 200 Americans in 26 states had been sickened by eating packaged spinach contaminated with E. coli, I received a rather coldblooded e-mail message from a friend in the food business.

作者先讲了上个月发生的一则新闻，来自26个州的将近200个美国人由于吃了被大肠杆菌感染的打包菠菜后生病，然后作者讲他收到在做食物方面生意的一位朋友的来信，这位朋友不无调侃的说，他已经指示他的经纪人去购买一批公用的radsafe

There was a similar reaction in April when officials in south-west Guizhou province, who had been implicated in a child prostitution case, were charged with frequenting protitutes rather than statutory rape.

类似事件发生于四月，在中国西南部的贵州省，当地政府把强暴小女孩的事件当作卖淫嫖娼案处理，激起当地民众起来游行，与政府发生流血冲突。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。