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GK Chesterton once wrote that in breaking away from England,''America was not thinking so much of her wrongs as a colony, but already of her rights as a republic...

切斯特顿曾经写道，在脱离英国，''美国并没有考虑这么多的殖民地作为她的错，而是已经作为一个共和国的权利。。。

Then she put upon her the white frock that Tess had worn at the club-walking, the airy fulness of which, supplementing her enlarged coiffure, imparted to her developing figure an amplitude which belied her age, and might cause her to be estimated as a woman when she was not much more than a child.

头发既然梳得蓬松，白衫又因轻飘而显得肥大，因此使她正在发育的身躯，看着好像成熟了的样子，叫人辨不出她的真正年龄来，而把她错认为成年的妇人；其实她比一个小孩子大不了多少。

It was of small dimensions, with a peaked cottage roof, and not much else to be seen, the dirt being raised five feet all around as if it were a compost heap.

屋很小，有一个三角形的屋顶，别的没有什么可看的，四周积有五英尺高的垃圾，像肥料堆。

And forgetting completely that he has not written as much as a chapter he talks about them condescendingly, quite as though there existed a shelf of books bearing his name, books which everyone is familiar with and the titles of which it is therefore superfluous to mention.

傻呼呼的处女，他是以给她们念自己的诗的借口把这些女孩子哄骗到房间里来的，另一个更妙的借口便是要征求她们的意见。

Two features of these operations are apparent immediately: firstly, a large number of users must be able to operate at the same time without interfering with each other, and secondly, the distances over which the system must provide communication need not in general be great, since much of the system's operation will be either within the confines of a conurbation or along well-defined major vehicle trunk routes or railway lines.

这些部门的两个特征立刻就明显了：第一，很多的使用者必须能够在没有干扰彼此的情况下同时操作，第二，系统所能提供交流的距离大体上不需要太长，因为许多系统的操作是在大都市的边界里面或沿着明确限定的主要车辆主干路径或铁路线。

How much all this meant to the Athenians is shown by the account given by Demosthenes of a law introduced by an Athenian under which "it should not be lawful to propose a law affecting any one individual, unless the same applied to all Athenians," because he was of the opinion that,"as every citizen has an equal share in civil rights, so everybody should have an equal share in the laws."

民主实现后，这个说法仍然被用作民主的根据，后来——根据一位学者的说法——或许被用作对民主的真实性质的伪装：因为民主政府很快就破坏了它从中获得合法性的"法律面前人人平等"。

However, I was so enamour'd of this place, that I spent much of my time there, for the whole remaining part of the month of July; and tho' upon second thoughts I resolv'd as above, not to remove, yet I built me a little kind of a bower

家是不准备搬了，但我确实非常喜欢那地方。因此，在七月份这一个月中，我常去那儿，并决定在那儿造一间茅舍

However, I was so enamour'd of this place, that I spent much of my time there, for the whole remaining part of the month of July; and tho ' upon second tho ughts I resolv'd as above, not to remove, yet I built me a little kind of a bower

家是不准备搬了，但我确实非常喜欢那地方。因此，在七月份这一个月中，我常去那儿，并决定在那儿造一间茅舍

I'm a 67 year old man who has not had much of an erection for a couple of years now.

我今年67岁了，现在已好多年没有勃起过了。

And it does not require much energy to work: in its current form the exoskeleton has just two small clutches which only draw a quarter of a watt of power each.

其在能量上的需求也不大，目前的设计只有两个离合器需要各四分之一瓦的电力。

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