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At one's worst Back 意群提示 Anyone, once involved in the river of love, be involved in the river of love / see one at always wishes his sweetheart to see him at his one's best / rather than best rather than at his worst.

新视野 -短语应用任何人一旦被卷入爱河，任何人一旦被卷入爱河，短总希望心上人看到自己语最差的时候；最差的时候；最糟最好的一面，最好的一面，而不是最逆译糕的时候糟的一面。

From inside information extending over a series of years Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.

204根据经年累月的内幕消息，布卢姆先生颇倾向于把上述见解看作是荒谬透顶的胡言乱语，嗤之以鼻；因为姑且不论他是否衷心企盼那样一种结局，对这一事实他总是了如指掌：除非海峡对岸的那些邻人远比他所设想的还要愚蠢，否则与其认为他们在显示实力，毋宁说是藏而不露。

"The reason we're losing natural capital is because it's free," says Ed Barbier, noting that we often think of conservation in terms of its costs rather than its value, and regard manufactured goods in terms of value rather than their environmental costs.

Ed Barbier认为我们经常从自然的损耗而不是它的价值来考虑保护环境，而对于制成品，我们考虑的是它的价值而非它对大自然的损耗。

And I'd rather be known for my career rather than my whereabouts.

我宁愿知道我的职业胜于我的下落。

Would you rather stay in the classroom?I'd rather have a cup of black tea.

在wish后的从句中，用一般过去时表示与现在事实相反的意思。

And I was so pleasantly musing over the two men mowing: the young one, with long legs in bright blue cotton trousers, and with bare black head, swinging so lightly downhill, and the other, in black trousers, rather stout in front , and wearing a new straw hat of the boater variety, coming rather stiffly after, crunching the end of his stroke with a certain violent effort.

可我刚刚还在愉快地望着两个割草人若有所思：年轻的一位生着一双长腿，穿着天蓝色的棉布裤子，黑黑的头发上没戴帽子，在山脚下轻松地来回摇摆着长镰；另一位穿着黑裤子，前面肚子挺壮实，戴着一顶新的硬边草帽，呆板板地走在后面，颇费力气地用镰刀尖嘎吱嘎吱地割着草。

Through the analysis of specific historical facts, we can obviously find that the incident in 1327 is just a traditional coup d'etat rather than "constitutional revolution" in the modern sense. The impeachment case in 1376 was sprung from conflicts among the noble groups. The impeachment procedure was not standardized, and the outcome lack of effective protection and the constitutional impact was very limited. The incident in 1399 was just Henry Bolingbroke usurp the throne by force, taking advantage of Richard II deserted circumstance, which had nothing to do with the pursuit democratic constitution or against the autocratic rule. It is still a dynasty change in the traditional sense, rather than the so-called "Lancaster Constitutional Revolution".

当然，通过具体史实的分析，我们不难发现，1327年事件只是一场传统意义上的宫廷政变，而不是近代意义上的"宪政革命"。1376年的弹劾案源于贵族之间的派别矛盾，弹劾程序并不规范，弹劾成果缺乏保障，弹劾的宪政影响也相当有限。1399年事件则是亨利·博林布罗克利用理查德二世众叛亲离之机，实行武力篡位的结果，与反对专制统治追求民主宪政无关；这仍然属于传统意义上的改朝换代，并非所谓的"兰开斯特宪政革命"。

Some of the great dystopias of the past – I think of John Brunner's novels from the early 1970s– centered on what was then the alleged nightmare of overpopulation; but that was a modernist nightmare, and what we confront today is perhaps not a dystopia either, but rather a certainty lived in a rather different way and with a properly postmodern ambivalence; which at any rate distinctly forecloses the possibility of progress or of solutions.

一些过去的伟大的反乌托邦作品——我想到20世纪70年代约翰·布鲁纳的小说——曾集中描写当时公认的人口过剩的梦魇；但那是现代主义的梦魇，而我们今天所面对的也许不是反乌托邦的，而是以一种相当不同的方式实际经历的东西，带有真正的后现代的模糊性；它俨然排除了进步或解决的可能。

These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words which are intended to be insults-- beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, populace--exhibit, alas! Rather the fault of those who reign than the fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the fault of the disinherited.

那是一些阴惨的日子，因为即使是在那种暴乱中，总还有一定程度的法律，在那种决斗中还有着自杀的性质；并且，不幸的是，从穷棒子、乱民、暴民、群氓这些带谩骂意味的字眼中，人们体验到的往往是统治阶层的错误而不是受苦受难者的错误；是特权阶层的错误，而不是一无所有者的错误。

The crisis appears to be one of solvency rather than one of liquidity; banks, along with insurers of bonds and other securities, are undercapitalized and so, as I suggested last week, require a capital infusion rather than just a purchase of frozen assets.

这个危机似乎是一种偿付能力的危机而非流动性危机；银行，还有债券及其他证券的承保人，都面临着投资不足，因此就像我上周建议过，需要一种资本注入而非仅仅购买那些冻结的资产。

You think you're a big shot.

你认为你是一个大人物？

All states are equal, and none can receive special treatment from the federal government.

所有的州都是平等的，任何州都不能获得联邦政府的特别待遇。