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Do you picture yourself in a neighborhood with tree-lined streets, or would you rather be in a community that requires little maintenance?

你了解自己在一个街道与林荫街道，或是你，而会在一个社会中，几乎不需要保养？

We would have taken any way rather than this; but it was late and growing dark, and the trestle was a short cut home.

我们宁愿走其他任何艰难的小路，也不愿意过这座桥，但是那天已经太晚了，高架桥是回家最近的路。

But you know I'm truthful, so would you rather I lie?

但你知道我是老实人你难道宁愿我说谎吗？

His fellow aldermen would believe in anything rather than an heretical distaste for the city ambrosia of the soup tureen.

他的市政官同僚，什么都会相信，就是不相信有人会对伦敦城的名菜海龟汤②深恶痛绝。

Rather than hold on to it, it would be better to let it be in an uncertain sense. This uncertainness of survival – for one thing it is related with the virtual culture of digital age, and for another it forms a question-and-answer with widening one's breadth of vision under globalization situation nowadays.

我们与其固定住它反不如让它不确定的存在下去，这种不确定的生存观念一方面与数码时代的虚拟文化相关联，也与当下全球化的开阔视野形成问答。

Their existing is out of our mind in the past. In their composition, you cannot find historical burden and depressed spirit which were found easily in fore generations rather than see unconstraint way in the aspect of existing and writing.Contemporarily, their novels also had deep sorrow which was not fit for their ages, and it could become a proof that they also would not be regarded as gangsters who only knew to seek for enjoyment, and they also wanted to look for one new life and resources of thought.

他们是我们以前不曾在意的一种存在，在他们的写作中，找不到前几代人的历史的负重与精神压抑，我们看到的，是无拘无束、自由自在的生存与书写的方式，同时，他们的小说也有与他们的年龄不太相称的伤感和沉痛，这证明他们也不愿意只做享乐的群氓，他们也想寻找新的生活和思想资源。

Come to think of it, who would you rather be marooned on an uninhabited island with: the academic with the

来想一想看，你愿意和谁一起被放逐到杳无人迹的荒岛上？

I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady- because I read daily in her a proud security in his intentions respecting her- because I witnessed hourly in him a style of courtship which, if careless and choosing rather to be sought than to seek, was yet, in its very carelessness, captivating, and in its very pride, irresistible.

我不可能不爱他，仅仅因为断定他很快会娶这位小姐——仅仅因为我每天觉察到，她高傲地觉得自己在他心目中的地位己经非常稳固；仅仅因为我时时刻刻看着他的求婚方式尽管漫不经心，且又表现出宁愿被人追求而不追求别人，却由于随意而显得富有魅力，由于傲慢而愈是不可抗拒。

I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady — because I lead daily in her a proud security in his intentions respecting her — because I witnessed hourly in him a style of courtship which, if careless and choosing rather to be sought than to seek, was yet, in its very carelessness, captivating, and in its very pride, irresistible.

我不可能不爱他，仅仅因为断定他很快会娶这位小姐——仅仅因为我每天觉察到，她高傲地觉得自己在他心目中的地位己经非常稳固；仅仅因为我时时刻刻看着他的求婚方式尽管漫不经心，且又表现出宁愿被人追求而不追求别人，却由于随意而显得富有魅力，由于傲慢而愈是不可抗拒。

He would like to speak to you rather urgently .

他非常急切地要和你谈一谈。

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。