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The European Union is in trouble. But rather than smirking which would be the normal reaction of a sceptic I am alarmed.

欧盟现在陷入了困境，但我并未因此而窃笑--那也许是怀疑论者的正常反应--而是感到惶恐不安。

Rather than seeing the myriad possibilities the future could hold, as the sorcerous Eldar claim they are able to, the visions he would experience were inevitably dark and troubled, the blackest paths the future could take unwinding before him.

这并非是灵族人所宣称他们所能达到的预知的能力，相反的，克兹所能经历的幻象只有黑暗和恐怖，是他已知的等待他的最可怕的黑暗未来。

It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel-efficient cars or accept a carbon taxor gasoline tax that might actually help free us from what he called our "addiction to oil."

一直令我困惑不解的是布什总统宁可在四个月中两度造访沙特阿拉伯，乞求沙特国王降低石油价格，也不愿意敦促美国民众以时速55英里的速度驾车，购买更多节油轿车，接受烟尘排放税或汽油税，而这些举措或许真的可以帮助我们从被布什总统称之为&对石油的嗜好&中解脱出来。

Because the unbanked have little money to spare, it would not be surprising if they were apprehensive about leaving their money with an unknown nontraditional/nonbank entity rather than stick with the cheque cashing services offered by a familiar name such as Western Union.

因为unbanked有一点钱不遗余力，它不会是不足为奇的，如果他们担心离开他们的钱，与一名不知名的非传统/非存款性的实体，而非坚持与支票兑现所提供的服务，一个熟悉的名称，如西方联盟。

There was a bed, rather than a crib, but she would recognize the quilt draped untidily over the top — it had been a gift from gran.

床上，想来婴儿床会更贴切，妈妈应该能认出来，随意地铺着那张格纹被子——那是祖母送的。

The fact is, just as you have seen, a lot of them would rather bear pain than exhaustion, wishfully expecting a way free from feeling tired.

但是，正如你能看到的那样，很多人宁愿疼也不愿累，一厢情愿地希望能有不累的减肥方法。

The fear that yoking together such diverse countries would increase tension, rather than reduce it, also appears vindicated: look at the surge of anti-European sentiment inside Germany.

人们担心，让差异如此巨大的国家结合在一起，将会加剧紧张，这种担忧似乎也证明是正确的：德国国内兴起的反欧情绪就是证明。

And some people would rather be pitied than fulfilled.

有些人宁愿被怜悯也不愿充分发挥自己的才能。

If the orange become sour, then the best one among us could change to bad, it would due to its inner rather than outside.

如果橙子变坏——我们中间最好的人有时也会变坏它是从外面开始坏起，而不是从内部。

Rather than risk instability in their own countries, they would prefer to destabilise Kyrgyzstan further.

他们宁愿让吉尔吉斯斯坦继续动荡下去，也不愿意冒在他们自己国内引起动荡的风险。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。