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If I die in Pakistan, it should be because of traffic accidents, rather than bombs or bullets.

如果我死在巴基斯坦，那应该是因为交通意外，而不是炸弹或子弹。

But this is tactical, rather than strategic, bullishness.

但这样带来的只是战术牛市，而不是战略牛市。

The art of fiction, as Jane Austen knew it, declined from her through Scott, and Bulwer, and Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte, and Thackeray, and even George Eliot, because the mania of romanticism had seized upon all Europe, and these great writers could not escape the taint of their time; but it has shown few signs of recovery in England, because English criticism, in the presence of the Continental masterpieces, has continued provincial and special and personal, and has expressed a love and a hate which had to do with the quality of the artist rather than the character of his work.

jane的小说技巧，在她之后就开始没落了，Scott， and Bulwer， and Dickens， and Charlotte Bronte， and Thackeray， and even George Eliot(这些都是Jane之后的作家，你可以在金山上查到详细的资料)都没怎么采用她的风格，因为欧洲人骨子里有着狂热的浪漫主义，而这些伟大的作家也没有能够摆脱他们时代的感染。在英国，也没有什么恢复的迹象，面对着欧洲大陆上的伟大作品，英国的评论依然本土化，特殊化，个人化，他们对于作家表现出了强烈的爱，憎，而不是对于他们的作品人物。

Frank Bruni, who covered his election campaign for the New York Times, wrote in 2002 that "the Bush I knew was part scamp and part bumbler, a timeless fraternity boy and heedless cutup, a weekday gym rat and weekend napster." And the then governor of Texas presented himself as a centrist—a new kind of "compassionate conservative", a "uniter rather than a divider", an advocate of a "humble" and restrained foreign policy.

在纽约时报为他撰写竞选特稿的弗兰克·布鲁尼，在2002年曾写道："我所知的布什是个时而顽皮时而木讷，长不大的兄弟会男孩，不拘小节的"小丑"，周中他是健生狂，而周末又是个音乐迷"之后这位前德州州长将自己展示为一位中间派，"富有同情心的保守党人"的一种新类别，一位"团结者而非分裂者"，一位"谦逊"克制外交政策的支持者。

It seems that i'm doomed to be a bumpkin rather than a posh.

"那一年我在那里，几个月前，我比那一年更接近它。"

The bungling beings often tried to steal Ewok crops rather than go to the trouble of growing their own.

这些笨拙的生物宁愿偷窃伊渥克人的作物也不愿去解决自己惹出的麻烦。

It can provide the living enzymes to make digestion an easy rather than burdensome process.

它可以提供生活酵素，使消化一件容易的，而不是繁琐的过程。

Both authors believe that in the war of ideas Americans should focus on jihadist brutality rather than trying to burnish their own image .

两位作者都相信，在观念战中，美国人应该集中力量于圣战者的凶残性上，而不是着意打扮自己的形象。

Next time you practice your serve, rather than trying to achieve theback-scratch position, try to point the butt cap--the end of the handle wherethe way back.

下次你练习发球时，别想着做那个挠背动作，在拍子在身后的时候试着将球拍的底帽(上面有拍子公司的logo)指向天空。

Next time you practice your serve, rather than trying to achieve the back-scratch position, try to point the butt cap--the end of the handle where you see the company logo--straight up toward the sky when your racquet is all the way back.

下次你练习发球时，别想着做那个挠背动作，在拍子在身后的时候试着将球拍的底帽(上面有拍子公司的logo)指向天空。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！