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And of course, those who knew him in those days remembered that he left Warinsten a swordless farmer's son, and reached our shores in the same condition; nor did he even think on the Red Worm until he had the better part of a year in our Erkynland...

然而，自然，那些在那一岁月中，熟知他的人，都记得，他离开Warinsten的时候，还是个手无寸铁的农夫的儿子，在他弃舟登岸的时候，也是一样的手无寸铁；更不用说，他是在Erkynland生活了一年以后，境况渐渐好转的时候，他才想到了那头红龙……

Tried to hobble around.Pig Barbie when I do, I griped. I'd spent the better part of the day in

&如果爱丽丝打算像刚才那样把我当芭比豚鼠一样打理的话，我就再也不会过来了。&

Perhaps most impressive of all, he scored 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in only 24 minutes Sunday, outplaying San Antonio's Tim Duncan for the better part of the Lakers' 99-85 victory at Staples Center. Bynum also had four blocked shots.

也许让人印象最深可的是：周日他在斯坦普斯中心湖人以99比85战胜马刺队的比赛中表现优秀，在24分钟的上场时间里拿下15分，抓下11个篮板，打败了马刺队的邓肯，安猪同时也贡献了4次封盖。

Roach has been with New York-based investment bank Morgan Stanley for more than 25 years, during the better part of which he was the senior executive heading the bank's team of global economists.

Roach为总部在纽约的投行摩根士丹利效力已超过25个年头，而且大多数年头担任公司高级主管，领导着公司在全球的经济学家团队。

Many of the approximately 30 artisans devoted the better part of their working lives to the project.

将近30名艺术家中，有很多人都把他们工作生涯中最好的时光献给了这项工程。

For a big, loud, hootenanny nation like ours--one that has spent the better part of its history whooping its way west--having an empty landmass to explore a quarter-million miles (more than 400,000 km) offshore was a powerful tonic.

对于我们这样一个名声响亮的大合众国，一个多半历史都在大张旗鼓一路向西的国家来讲，在25万英里（40万公里）以外有一块大陆等待探索，是一剂强有力补药。

I really do believe that struggling early on this year will help me from here on out. I mean I feel like things could have not gone much worse for a the better part of the year, and yet I still ended up at Maters.

我是说对于后面的发挥良好的状态相比，之前的遭遇已经不能更坏了，现在我仍能打&大师杯&，依照我的怪异的逻辑来说的话，这还算是件好事。

As a matter of fact, aside from the Romanticists, who temporarily switched to plein-air, it is hard to find too many European or American intellectuals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who did not spend the better part of their days in cafés or coffeehouses.

事实上，在整个18、19世纪，除了露天派印象主义画家这种浪漫主义者不常在咖啡馆里以外，欧洲或美国的知识分子都会把一天中最美好的时光泡在咖啡馆中。

On Your Mark was Miyazaki's first creative work since finally finishing his epic graphic novel, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. This is his life's work, an 1100 page saga that consumed his life for the better part of twenty years.

译者注：关于Marc Hairston，他有一个关于宫崎骏作品的学期课程讨论，映画馆已经在进行翻译，初定在五一期间完成并发表），《ON YOUR MARK》是宫崎骏在最终完成他的史诗漫画《风之谷》之后，第一部创造的作品。

In elementary article physics and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.

许多天体物理学家近十年来一直确信这一论说是正确的。

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。