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In a short time its books division became so profitable it decided to plough some of its profits into a literary prize that would give British, Irish and Commonwealth writers something of the kudos and financial reward of the Prix Goncourt in France.

因此，布克公司决定从所获利润中抽取一部分来设立一个布克文学奖，以此鼓励英国、爱尔兰及英联邦国家的作家。

Whether you love the earthy taste of a Sumatran , the flavor of a true Guatemalan or thecomplexity of a great Colombian - if you want something better than the average brew, we're here to help!

无论你是喜欢地道的苏门答腊口味，或是偏爱危地马拉的纯正香味，亦或是哥伦比亚的混合口味---只要您想品尝到上乘的咖啡，在这里，我们就能为您提供。

The smoothness of her movements, the softness and flexibility of her little limbs, and something of slyness and reserve in her manner, suggested a lovely half-grown kitten, which would one day be a charming cat.

她那动作的平稳，小小肢体的柔软和灵活，有点调皮而自持的风度，便像一只尚未发育成熟的美丽可爱的猫崽，它必将成为一只颇具魅力的母猫。

A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed.

一位绅士走过来。他相貌不凡，显得颇有教养。高高的鼻子，面色苍白，嘴角微露愠意，有着生来就有发号施令那类人所具有的一双神色镇静，睁得大大的眼睛。

"Of course I know," replied the cask:"poetry is something that always stand in the corner of a newspaper, and is sometimes cut out; and I may venture to affirm that I have more of it in me than the student has, and I am only a poor tub of the huckster's."

於是小鬼再把舌头放在一个咖啡磨上。哎唷！咖啡磨简直成了一个话匣子了！於是他又把舌头放在一个黄油桶上，然后又放到钱匣子上——它们的意见都跟盆子的意见一样，而多数人的意见是必须尊重的。"好吧，我要把这意见告诉那个学生！"

It can take down a fairly large animal — you might think of a lion, you might think of a hyena, something that can crunch through bone.

它可以拿下一个相当大的动物，你很可能会想到一只狮子或者是一只鬣狗，或者能咬碎骨头的动物。

She went upstairs to her bedroom. There she heard the loudspeaker begin to bellow, in an idiotically velveteen-genteel sort of voice, something about a series of street-cries, the very cream of genteel affectation imitating old criers. She pulled on her old violet coloured mackintosh, and slipped out of the house at the side door. The drizzle of rain was like a veil over the world, mysterious, hushed, not cold. She got very warm as she hurried across the park.

那妇人！要是她能够在城和他在一起，而除了他俩以外，世界绝无第三者了，那么多情欲重新涌了起来，他的阴茎象一只活的小鸟似地兴奋着，同时他又觉得被一种恐惧压制着，他恐惧着自己和她要被外面那些电灯光里含恶意地闪耀着的"东西"所吞食，她，这可怜的年轻的人儿，在他看来，她只是一个年轻的女性的生物罢了，但是这却是一个你曾深进过，并且他还在欲望着进去的一个年轻的生物。

It must be said that, also like Wong's other films, Fallen Angels is fragmented and oblique to the point of occasional incomprehensibility…but then suddenly something wild or wonderful happens, such as the moment when the killer leaves the scene of a spectacular shooting and is promptly waylaid by a cheerful old school chum on a public bus.

必须指出的是，也想黄的其他电影，堕落天使是支离破碎，斜到不可思议点偶然。。。但后来突然什么野生或奇妙的情况是，如时刻杀手离开壮观的现场拍摄和及时一辆载有乐观的公共巴士的老同学密友。

And whenever something of incontestably excellent value does appear-a superb dramatic performance, let us say, to stay in the sphere of art-then it appears, rather, as a phenomenon to be tolerated because of its subtlety and refinement, and hence, from an official point of view, its relative innocuousness *(1.not injurious,harmless,2.inoffensive) as a contribution to social self-awareness.

并且当某种无可争辩的优秀作品出现，如一种杰出的戏剧表演出现在艺术领域中，毋宁说它是因其精致和精练，从官方的观点看来，仅仅作为对社会自我意识的贡献相对无关痛痒而被宽容的现象。

The daughter was already fingering at the folds of her gown and looking interrogatively at her mother, when suddenly they heard in the next room several girls and boys running to the door, and the grating sound of a chair knocked over and a girl of thirteen ran in, hiding something in her short muslin petticoat, and stopped short in the middle of the room.

女客的女儿正在弄平连衣裙，用疑问的眼神望着母亲，就在这时分，忽然听见隔壁房里传来一群男人和女人向门口迅跑的步履声、绊倒椅子的响声，一个十三岁的女孩跑进房里来，用那短短的纱裙盖住一件什么东西，她在房间当中停步了。

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