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While Microsoft has lost around 5 percent brand value as compared to last year in the face of stiff competition from Google and Apple, IBM has benefited from hiving off its PC division to Lenovo, and its brand value has gone up by 5 percent.

面临 Google 和 Apple 的夹击，与去年相比， Microsoft 的品牌价值下降了5个百分点。 IBM 得益于将旗下的个人电脑部出售给联想，身家上升了5个百分点。

They were a close-mouthed and stiff-necked family, who kept strictly to themselves and intermarried with their Carolina relatives, and Gerald was not alone in disliking them, for the County people were neighborly and sociable and none too tolerant of anyone lacking in those same qualities.

他们是一个缄默寡言、性格倔强的家族，与外人绝少往来，也只同卡罗来纳的亲戚通婚。杰拉尔德并不是唯一不喜欢他们的人，因为县里各家都相处融洽，乐于交往，谁也忍受不了像他们这种性格的人家。

His stiff grey hair was mussed back from his brow as though he had combed it back with his fingers.

他那粗硬的灰白头发从额上乱七八糟地披到后边，仿佛他是用指头向后梳过似的。

In those days, if you were a boy you had to wear a stiff every day, and schools were usually nastier than now.

在那些日子里，如果你是个男孩，你每天就必须带着僵硬的Eton衣领的制服，学校通常比现在要肮脏。

I heard him fumbling at the lock, his hands stiff, his mind numbed.

我听见他在锁上摸索，他的手僵硬了，他的脑袋发木了。

However, with this line of tennis rackets, you have stiff competition against you.

不过，这组网球拍的价钱使得市场上的竞争对你们很不利。

However, with this line of tennis rackets, you have stiff comperition against you.

不过，这组网球拍的价钱使得市场上的竞争对你们很不利。

Ducks by the hundred, all uneasy in the surf, in the raw wind, just ready to rise, and now going off with a clatter and a whistling like riggers straight for Labrador, flying against the stiff gale with reefed wings, or else circling round first, with all their paddles briskly moving, just over the surf, to reconnoitre you before they leave these parts; gulls wheeling overhead, muskrats swimming for dear life, wet and cold, with no fire to warm them by that you know of; their labored homes rising here and there like haystacks

成群的鸭子在巨浪狂风中不安地游向岸边，正要上岸时，随着一阵嘎嘎的叫声，纷纷散去，直奔往Labrador，有的瑟缩着翅膀逆风飞行，有的先是浮在浪头打转，快速地扑打着双蹼，打量了一眼船上的人才离去；海鸥在空中盘旋，麝鼠也奋力游着，浑身湿冷，它们可不能和人一样用火取暖，到处是它们象草堆一样垄起的房子。

Many waves are there agitated by the wind, keeping nature fresh, the spray blowing in your face, reeds and rushes waving; ducks by the hundred, all uneasy in the surf, in the raw wind, just ready to rise, and now going off with a clatter and a whistling like riggers straight for Labrador, flying against the stiff gale with reefed wings, or else circling round first, with all their paddles briskly moving, just over the surf, to reconnoitre you before they leave these parts; gulls wheeling overhead, muskrats swimming for dear life, wet and cold, with no fire to warm them by that you know of; their labored homes rising here and there like haystacks; and countless mice and moles and winged titmice along the sunny windy shore; cranberries tossed on the waves and heaving up on the beach, their little red skiffs beating about among the alders;-- such healthy natural tumult as proves the last day is not yet at hand.

那儿风大，空气清新，激流拍岸，水花四溅直朝你脸上扑来，芦苇草和灯心草迎风翻舞。成群的鸭子在巨浪狂风中不安地游向岸边，正要上岸时，随着一阵嘎嘎的叫声，纷纷散去，直奔往Labrador，有的瑟缩着翅膀逆风飞行，有的先是浮在浪头打转，快速地扑打着双蹼，打量了一眼船上的人才离去；海鸥在空中盘旋，麝鼠也奋力游着，浑身湿冷，它们可不能和人一样用火取暖，到处是它们象草堆一样垄起的房子。晴朗多风的岸边，有数不清的老鼠，鼹鼠和山雀；酸果蔓在波浪中招摇，红色的小艇摇晃穿梭在桤木丛中-----这种生机勃勃的景象说明世界末日远未来临。

Frosted windowpanes; a frosty glass; hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost-Wm.Faulkner.

结满霜花的窗玻璃；结了霜了玻璃；灌木篱笆结满了霜，冻得硬梆梆的——wm·福克纳。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。