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But now I see that they thought I was overpowering and that I was trying to be too friendly too soon.

现在我明白他们是认为我太咄咄逼人/太过热情，让人觉得我是想巴结别人。

Myopia: As axial length is too long, due to refractive eye refractive power of the system is too strong, resulting in 5 meters away from the formation of the parallel light rays focus before the retina.

近视眼：由于眼轴过长，由于眼球屈光系统的屈光力过强，以致5米以外的平行光线在视网膜之前形成焦点。

He has a grace of fifteen minutes past the invited time to arrive, although arriving too early is more pardonable than arriving too late.

他应该有15分钟的富裕时间提前到达，尽管到的太早比太晚是可以原谅的。

Let us therefore consider a master of a family with all these subordinate relations of wife, children, servants, and slaves, united under the domestic rule of a family; which, what resemblance soever it may have in its order, offices, and number too, with a little common-wealth, yet is very far from it, both in its constitution, power and end: or if it must be thought a monarchy, and the paterfamilias the absolute monarch in it, absolute monarchy will have but a very shattered and short power, when it is plain, by what has been said before, that the master of the family has a very distinct and differently limited power, both as to time and extent, over those several persons that are in it; for excepting the slave (and the family is as much a family, and his power as paterfamilias as great, whether there be any slaves in his family or no) he has no legislative power of life and death over any of them, and none too but what a mistress of a family may have as well as he.

所以，让我们在家庭规则之下来考虑家庭的主人与所有妻子，孩子，仆人和奴隶的从属关系；家庭，无论在它的秩序，各种职务以及人数方面多么的类似于一个小国家，然而在它的构造，权力和目的方面与国家是相去甚远的：或者如果一定要把它想成一个君主国，家长是绝对君主的话，这个绝对君主国也仅仅拥有零碎和短暂的权力，因为根据前面的论述，很明显：家庭主人对其余人的有限权力，无论在时间上还是在范围上与君主的权力都是截然不同的；因为除了奴隶，他没有对任何人的生命和死亡拥有立法的权力，女主人也同样没有。

Gayle: I'm a bit peckish too, but it's quite late and we don't want anything too heavy before we go to bed.

盖尔：我也有点饿了，但现在已经很晚，睡前我们也不要吃得太饱。

He makes an extensive case against "a present-day literary-Americanist standpoint" that, in his view, takes too seriously the concluding peroration of "The American Scholar" We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe....

贝尔做了广泛的研究反对"当今研究美国文学的人的一个观点"，在他看来，它过于看重《美国学者》的带有总结性的结尾（我们聆听欧洲的庄严的沉思已经太久了。

The guy who complains to editors that an article is too tough and too tedious, that he doesn't understand it, and who plaintively cries,"Why can't we have more features for the beginner?"

那些常常向编辑抱怨文章太难太枯燥看不懂的人，还有那些可怜兮兮地叫嚷"为什麽不多写些适合初学者的文章呢？"

Your life has been too much work and too little play, but that is about to change.

你的生活被搞得事倍功半，但现在是改变的时候了。

Colour wants downy: The colour both neither of the study wants too boast eye, should not be too dim again, and ought to take downy and tonal polychromy.

色彩要柔和：书房的色彩既不要过于耀目，又不宜过于昏暗，而应当取柔和色调的色彩装饰。

Later, Owens and his agent held a press conference during which Owens apologized to all concerned but it was too little, too late.

他在招待会上向所有人道了歉，但是相较于他以往的所作作为，这实在是微不足道，而且为时已晚。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。