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Against the flesh black paintwork, the bare white splintered shaft stood out jarring and ugly, like the millet stalks blatantly sticking out from under a fine paper figure which hasn't yet had its legs pasted on.

崭新黑漆的车，把头折了一段，秃碴碴的露着两块白木碴儿，非常的不调和，难看，像糊好的漂亮纸人还没有安上脚，光出溜的插着两根秫秸秆那样。

So go out a dive, a lot, and figure out what your thing is and it just may be a sport you do on your winter vacation between breakfast and golf, which is absolutely fine all by itself.

所以，去做一个潜水，搞清楚你自己的事情。也许潜水只是在你冬季休假时早餐和高尔夫球之间的一个绝对不错的一个选择。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。