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Since her tenth birthday, Naida had lived in a mental hospital, in the ward where they put people who were strange in shape and ways—where old frail women were tucked under thin frayed bedspreads, waiting for the time when their jaws would drop suddenly in the night; where curious bland children with slit eyes and lips bubbling with saliva played with rag toys or a red wooden engine in a yard that was hidden from the outside world.

伊达从十岁生日那天起，就住进了精神病医院。病房里住的都是行为举止异常的人：年迈而又虚弱的老太婆被藏在皱巴巴的床罩里面等待晚上可以突然睡去。而好奇单纯的孩子则半眯着眼，嘴里含着鼠尾草吹出汩汩的声音。要么玩着用碎布做成的玩具，要么在一个与世隔绝的院子里的一个红色的木质器械上玩耍。

I'm semi-retired but I am a musician and have a shop building and repairing guitars and amplifiers.

我是半退休状态，但我是一个音乐家，有一个修复吉他和放大器的店。

There's a bridge beginning at around 2:40, and Sakurai tries to hit some notes that are just a bit too damn high for him. If he was a groomed, jaded pro, his producers would have commanded the arrangers to re-orchestrate the whole track in a key 4 or 5 semitones lower.

Surrender这首歌2分40秒时有一个过渡段，樱井唱了一个对于他来说太高的音调，如果他只是个傀儡软柿子歌手，他的制作人很可能会要求重新编曲，把整曲降4-5个半调。

It's an unlikely alliance: the striking, slightly ditzy Sheba in her flowing, diaphanous clothes; the no-nonsense Barbara, a chain-smoking spinster in sensible shoes.

这是一种不大可能的结盟：一个是穿着飘逸的半透明衣服的、引人注目而又有一点古怪的示巴；另一个是穿着大号鞋子、连续不断地抽烟的严肃老处女芭芭拉。

Once there,the siblings discover a charming, once peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants but no human that has been turned into a world of eternal winter by the evil White Witch.

在那里，四兄妹发现了一个令人陶醉的地方，这片曾经和平的土地上居住着会说话的动物、小矮人、半羊人、人马和巨人，但却没有人类居住。这片土地现在已经被邪恶的白女巫变成了一个永恒的冰雪世界。

A half-century ago, for example, producing genetic copies of animals was only a dream of scientists.

半个世纪以前，例如，生产出一个根据遗传复制出的动物可能仅仅只是科学家的一个梦。

Since he claimed to be a restorer of the ancient, pure religion revealed to Abraham, he connected his teaching with that of the Holy Scriptures of the Jews and Christians, of whose contents, however, he had in many particulars only a very imperfect knowledge-his teachers having been monks or half-educated Jews-and this knowledge he often repeated in a confused and perverted fashion.

既然他自称是一个恢复的古老而纯粹的宗教透露给亚伯拉罕，他关连他的教学与研究圣经的犹太教徒和基督教徒的，其内容，不过，他曾在许多细节上只有极不完善知识他的老师曾僧侣或半受过教育的犹太人和这方面的知识，他经常反复在一个混乱和扭曲的时尚。

Here the proper occasions are these: the last month and a half of the hot season, the first month of the rains, these two and a half months being a time of heat, a time of fever; a time of illness; a time of work; a time of going on a journey; a time of wind or rain.

任何比丘在半个月内洗两次澡，除非是在适当的情况之下(热季的最后一个月和热季的一半，雨季的第一个月，生病时，工作时，旅行时，有风或有雨时)，犯 Pacittiya。

In the last century before the mid-90s, members of the public to buy tea, regardless of half a catty, or two worth mentioning a few stores with a piece of blank paper on a four-pack box, just like medicine bag, or bag with a larger I just installed a very simple and is detrimental to the preservation,拿不出手gift is.

在上个世纪90年代中期以前，市民买茶，不管半斤也好，几两也罢，店家就用一张白纸包成一个四方块，就跟包中药一样，或是用一个较大的袋子一装了事，非常简陋，既不利于保存，送礼更是拿不出手。

The spatial semi-variogram values of above-ground biomass of perennial herbs and Mesophytes, following the increase of spatial distances, showed decreasing trends when semi-variogram values exceeding the effective ranges. Howeve,semi-variogram values of above-ground biomass of other functional groups, following the increase of spatial distances, showed a trend of increasing spatial variability, but semi-variogram values were at unchanged value when exceeding the effective ranges.

多年生草本和中生植物生物量变异函数值，在出现一个相对稳定的基台值后，开始下降，并随着空间距离的增加，空间变异性有减弱的趋势，而其它各功能群生物量表现出随着距离的增大空间变异性增强的趋势，但超过其变程后半方差函数值也基本稳定在一个极限值附近。

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。