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THE slow march towards legalising gay marriage was hobbled in November, when voters in California passed a proposition to ban it.

自从提案在加州被否决后，同性恋婚姻合法化的抗争在11月份无明显进展。

THE slow march towards legalising gay marriage was hobbled in November, when voters in California passed a proposition to ban it.

同性婚姻合法化的漫长征程在去年11月受阻，加州选民通过了一个禁止同性婚姻合法化的提议。

Its freight business is a chronic lossmaker, hobbled by rigid labour practices that mean it cannot compete with rivals such as EWS and Veolia which are already operating in France. EWS has been bought by Deutsche Bahn, and Mr Pepy admits that "everybody is talking to everybody" about further freight consolidation.

他的货运业务是慢性的亏损，由于呆板的劳工条件，使得它无法与已经在法国运营的对手们竞争（EWS来自英国，Veolia法国一个企业集团的分支），EWS已经被Deutsche Bahn购买，Pepy先生承认：人们都在讨论货运行业的进一步整合。

Witness the way Yao Ming hobbled off the court while playing for faraway Houston last winter. Witness the way Mickey Mantle, the great Yankees hitter, blew a hamstring running to first base one night in the early "60"s — like a deer being shot in mid-stride, somebody wrote.

看看姚明去年冬天在休斯顿火箭队打球时蹒跚着下场；看看纽约洋基队伟大的击球手Mickey Mantle在60年代的某个晚上冲向一垒的时候拉伤了腿筋——像一头在仲夏夜被射杀的鹿，有人这样描写到。

I was fairly pooped by the time I hobbled through Customs, filled in the usual lost luggage forms with the assistance of stone-deaf baggage complaints officer and taken a three-hour taxi ride to the country where I'd intended to land.

一瘸一拐地过了海关，在一个彻底耳聋的行李投诉官的帮助下，填完常见的行李遗失表格，又坐了三个小时的出租，来到原本该降落的国家的时候，我已然精疲力竭。

On screen, Ennis's self-repression and self-loathing are given startling physical form: the awkward, almost hobbled quality of his gait, the constricted gestures, the way in which he barely opens his mouth when he talks all speak eloquently of a man who is tormented simply by being in his own body—by being himself.

萤屏上，Ennis 的那种自我压抑和自我憎恨被赋予了令人吃惊的外在形态：笨拙的几近蹒跚的步态，收敛的姿势，讲话时几乎张不开嘴；这些有说服力的特徵为我们描绘了一个为自己苦恼，被自己折磨的男人。

While American International Group Inc.'s new CEO preaches patience on selling big-ticket assets, the hobbled insurer is still leaving open the option of quick spinoffs and is shedding smaller units like the asset-management division it agreed to sell to prominent Hong Kong businessman Richard Li.

尽管美国国际集团新任首席执行长本默切表示在出售高价资产方面要有耐心，这家陷入困境的保险公司仍不排除迅速分拆的可能，目前正着手出售较小型业务，比如AIG同意出售给香港知名商人李泽楷的资产管理部门。

New research shows King Tut was actually a hobbled, weak teen with a cleft palate and club foot.

新的研究表明，图坦卡蒙实际上是步履蹒跚，有腭裂，马蹄内翻足弱青少年。

In the days of sailing vessels the crew were afraid they would be becalmed on the ocean.

在使用帆船的时代，船员们担心他们会因为无风而无法在海洋上航行。

As long as foreign donors pay the PA's salary bill, few expect a new intifada.

只要外国继续为巴权力机构的薪水买单，希望发动新暴动的人便寥寥无几。