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The fact that I've drifted away since those halcyon days demonstrates, I suppose, that I'm a fair weather sports fan rather than a perennially loyal, diehard one.

事实上，在公牛的鼎盛时代过后，我的热情就消失了。我想这表明我只能与球队同甘，不能共苦，并非长年不离不弃的死忠球迷。

As for metaphor, we suggest that as a conceptual process of reality rather than reality itself, it is the imaginativeness that makes metaphor a useful resource for hyperbole.

至於隐喻的使用，我们认为隐喻提供了真实世界以及话语之间的想像空间，这是夸饰的基础之一。

Holding: The owner of the property on which buried money which is found embedded in the soil under circumstances that do not support the idea that the money was lost due to neglect, carelessness or inadvertence, but rather which circumstances suggest that the original owner intended to return to claim the money, has the presumed right to possess the found money against all but the original owner.

裁决：当这些钱是由于其主人故意埋在那里并有意图回来取，而不是由于疏忽、大意、或不经心丢在那里的情况下，埋藏地的产权所有者对这笔钱应该比其它任何人(这笔钱原来的真正主人除外)更有理由拥有所有权。

But the pravity of mankind being such that they had rather injuriously prey upon the fruits of other men's labours than take pains to provide for themselves, the necessity of preserving men in the possession of what honest industry has already acquired and also of preserving their liberty and strength, whereby they may acquire what they farther want, obliges men to enter into society with one another, that by mutual assistance and joint force they may secure unto each other their properties, in the things that contribute to the comfort and happiness of this life, leaving in the meanwhile to every man the care of his own eternal happiness, the attainment whereof can neither be facilitated by another man's industry, nor can the loss of it turn to another man's prejudice, nor the hope of it be forced from him by any external violence.

但是人类堕落如此，他们宁肯有害的掠夺他人的劳动果实也不愿意自己生产劳作，于是就有了保护人们正直劳动所获得财产的必要性这种要求，以及保护他们获得进一步预期的自由和力量，这使得人们不得不与他人结成社会，通过互相帮助和联合的力量来确保彼此的有助于此生舒适和幸福的财产安全，同时把对他自己永恒幸福的关心留给每个人，这种幸福的获得不能通过他人的劳作，它的失去也不会对他人造成伤害，对它的渴望也不能用任何外在的暴力夺去。

It is not that bits of Europe are flirting with fascism again. It is rather that the same issues irk voters then as now—and politicians are responding to them in similar ways.

并不是说欧洲的哪些地区又在向法西斯主义暗送秋波，只是当年困扰着选民的问题又卷土重来了——而政客们应对的手法也如出一辙。

Jaundiced by years of blue screens and having to kluge together their own "solutions," buyers have discovered the hard way that the best technology doesn't always carry the day, that pioneers don't always make the best providers, and that "second to market" is often a strategic advantage rather than a badge of disgrace.

蓝色屏幕、黄疸多年不用自己克鲁一起"解"难买主发现，最好的技术途径并不总是带有一天这并不总是尽开拓者供应而"第二市场"的战略优势，而不是常常挂着一个耻辱。

Miss Ley noticed that marriage had dispelled the shyness that had been in him rather an attractive feature.

莱伊小姐注意到，结婚已驱散了他身上原来的那种颇受人注意的腼腆特征。

Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore one should not scornn her in her nakedness and proverty,but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.

哲学就像胜于其他科学并且赋予他们一切的母亲，因此部门不该嘲笑哲学的简陋与贫乏，而应该期待哲学中唐吉歌德式的理想能在其他科学中继续存在，以免其他科学陷入功利主义中。

Which is not to say that she never used it, but rather that she always seemed to have a real appreciation for the subtle rawness of hand-drawn fonts and ink rendered design touches.

但这不是说她从不采用矢量艺术，但至少她看起来是位对原创手绘和经艺术处理设计痕迹真正具有鉴赏和敏锐观察力的人。

Its advocates could point to the fact that Scripture contained no instance of rebaptism, that the analogous rite of circumcision was not repeatable, and that the questioning of the legitimacy of heretical baptism made the efficacy of the rite depend upon man rather than God.

它的鼓吹者也指出这样一个事实，即圣经中没有实例rebaptism ，认为类似成年礼的割礼是不重复的，并表示，讯问的合法性异端的洗礼，取得的成效之祭取决于人，而不是神。

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