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If the order is small---a cup of coffee at a lunch counter, or something of the sort---a tip is not usually expected.

如果点的东西很少－－在午饭柜台只点了杯咖啡，或这一类的东西－－通常不用付小费。

Michael didn't say much to me at first, until one day he ran in screaming that there was a "vagabond" sitting in the alley behind the studio. I took a look, expecting Charlie Chaplin to pop out or something, but there was just some homeless guy sipping malt liquor out of a bag on the back steps.

一开始MJ不怎么和我说话，直到有一天他尖叫着跑进录音棚说小巷里坐着个"流浪汉"，我跑出去看，以为会看到"查理·卓别林"那样的人物呢，结果只看到一个无家可归者坐在台阶上喝酒。

Yet there is a handful of reasons for thinking that something special about the middle class itself—some intrinsic quality of middle-classness—contributes to growth, efficiency and the enrichment of a society.

有一手根据可以证明中产阶级的与众不同-----这个阶级的某些本质推动了社会的进步，提高了效率，创造了富裕。

Gas lasers look something like a combination of a neon tube and a fluouescent lamp.

气体激光器看来有点像氖管和营光灯的组合。

Tell me now, fairy as you are — can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man?

你是个小精灵，那现在你就告诉我——能不能给我一种魔力，或者有魔力的药，或是某种类似的东西，使我变成一个英俊的男子？

Tell me now, fairy as you are- can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man?

使我变成一个英俊的男子？

When some terrible sorrow which seems so hard to reconcile with perfect love, crushes down upon the soul, wringing from it all its peaceful rest in the pitifulness of God, and launching it on a sea unlit by a ray of hope; when unkindness, and cruelty maltreat the trusting heart, till it begins to doubt whether there be a God overhead who can see and still permit- these know something of the "horror of great darkness."

有时漆黑一团的悲哀，似乎与神的爱绝不调和，压着你的灵魂，把神怜悯之心所给你的一切安息都挤压净尽，投入看不见一丝希望的海里；残酷和不仁，嘲笑着那信靠的心，直到它发生怀疑：到底天上有没有看见这一切的神？祂是否允许这惊人的大黑暗？人生的构成，就是交错着光明与黑暗。

When some terrible sorrow which seems so hard to reconcile with perfect love, crushes down upon the soul, wringing from it all its peaceful rest in the pitifulness of God, and launching it on a sea unlit by a ray of hope; when unkindness, and cruelty maltreat the trusting heart, till it begins to doubt whether there be a God overhead who can see and still permit--these know something of the "horror of great darkness."

有时漆黑一团的悲哀，似乎与上帝的爱绝不调和，压著你的灵魂，把上帝怜悯之心所给你的一切安息都挤压净尽，投入看不见一丝希望的海堙F残酷和不仁，嘲笑著那信靠的心，直到它发生怀疑：到底天上有没有看见这一切的上帝？祂是否允许这惊人的大黑暗？人生的构成，就是交错著光明与黑暗。

When some terrible sorrow which seems so hard to reconcile with perfect love, crushes down upon the soul, wringing from it all its peaceful rest in the pitifulness of God, and launching it on a sea unlit by a ray of hope; when unkindness, and cruelty maltreat the trusting heart, till it begins to doubt whether there be a God overhead who can see and still permit-these know something of the "horror of great darkness."

有时漆黑一团的悲哀，似乎与神的爱绝不调和，压著你的灵魂，把神怜悯之心所给你的一切安息都挤压净尽，投入看不见一丝希望的海里；残酷和不仁，嘲笑著那信靠的心，直到它发生怀疑：到底天上有没有看见这一切的神？

A need is something you can't live without and a want is more of a preference.

需要的东西是你生活必需的，而想要的东西是自己更喜欢的。

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