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The figures were smiling coquettishly and altogether looked as though, had it not been for the necessity of supporting the candlestick, they would have skipped off the pedestal and have indulged in an ''.'orgy'.'' such as is improper for the reader even to imagine.

那两个女人撩人心弦地微笑着，总之从外貌来看，要不是她们必须支撑烛台，似乎就会从台座上跳下来，在房间里打打闹闹，可是那样的情景，读者诸君，就连想一下都是不成体统的。

If it were a war for freedom, I could have understood it, I would have been the first to go into the army; but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world―that's not right.

假如这是一场争取自由的战争，那我心中就会一明二白，我要头一个去服兵役。可是帮助美国和奥地利去反对世界上一个最伟大的人……这就很不好了。

In the past, the vocals from the original sound tracks always seemed rushed. The songs were hardily polished; there wasn't enough space for experimentation. Singing became an "uncertain" endeavor, and it not longer brought me any joy. So, quietly, it retreated into a corner where hopefully no one would notice.

以前配唱原声带歌曲时总是来去匆匆，歌不够熟练，唱法也没有一再尝试的空间，唱歌这件事变得很"心虚"，不再是一件快乐的事，因此，它便慢慢退回到不希望被人注意的角落去了。

Nor is it proper for prayer to be superstitiously restricted to one place, as if it were not permitted to pray anywhere except in a sanctuary.

它也不是恰当的祈祷被迷信只限於一个地方，因为如果不容许任何地方祈祷，除了在庇护所。

Well! If you could endure to have such a worthless fellow, and a fellow of such indifferent reputation, coming and going at odd times, I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as an useless (and I would add, if it were not for the resemblance I detected between you and me), an unornamental, piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service, and taken no notice of.

好了！如果你能容忍这样一个没出息的、名声不好的人偶然来坐坐，我倒希望你给我一点特权，让我不时来走动走动。我希望能被当作一件没有用的（若不是因为我对我俩外形的相似的发现，我倒想加一句话：不能为厅堂增色的）家具，因为多年使用，所以受到容忍，虽然并不受到注意。我怀疑自己说不定会辜负你的允诺。我怀疑我在一年之内会不会使用这种特权四次（那可能性我估计还不到百分之一）。

This gives rise to the thought that if it were not for the substantial profits made by Rolex, there would probably be no Franck Muller; because it was at the Geneva watchmaker's school that Muller learned his trade.

你可以这样想：如果没有ROLEX公司创造的利润，就可能没有Franck Muller；因为他就是在日内瓦的钟表学校里学到了他的技艺。

"It's not that they wanted the man to whisk them off and marry them," Campbell told LiveScience."It's that they wanted the man to understand that they weren't like this normally. That they were doing this for him on this night as a particular event."

坎贝尔对《生活科学》说，女人和男人发生一夜情的时候并不是因为女人想让这个男人和她结婚，而是她想让男人明白她通常并不是这样的，今晚的一夜情是她特别为这个男人所做的。

These new ionic liquid-supported acetylacetone catalysts were used for the oxidation of the intermediates of Vitamin E (2,3,5-trimethylphenol and 3,5,5-trimethylcyclohex-3-en-l-one). It not only checked the rationality of the design, but also established the base for the green oxidation of corresponding reactions.

论文进一步将此类离子液体支载乙酰丙酮金属催化剂应用于维生素E中间体三甲基苯酚和β—异佛尔酮的氧化过程，一方面检验了催化剂设计过程及结果的可靠性，另一方面为相关氧化反应的绿色化改造提供相关的基础。

The neck is virtually unplayed if it were not for the two tiny surface chips we would have given this guitar the 9.50 rating that it actually deserves.

颈部几乎是1709如果不是两个微小的表面，我们就已经放弃了这吉他的9.50等级，它实际上值得芯片。

I kiss the little fingers,and the damp forehead,and the yellow curls,and,if it were not for walking for you,I would snatch you up ang crush you to my breast.

若不是怕惊醒你，我真想一把把你抱起，紧紧地贴在我的胸膛。

According to the clear water experiment, aeration performance of the new equipment is good with high total oxygen transfer coefficient and oxygen utilization ratio.

曝气设备的动力效率在叶轮转速为120rpm～150rpm时取得最大值，此时氧利用率和充氧能力也具有较高值。

The environmental stability of that world - including its crushing pressures and icy darkness - means that some of its most famous inhabitants have survived for eons as evolutionary throwbacks, their bodies undergoing little change.

稳定的海底环境─包括能把人压扁的压力和冰冷的黑暗─意谓海底某些最知名的栖居生物已以演化返祖的样态活了万世，形体几无变化。