一件好事

This is a good thing, because garbage collection has some overhead, and if you never do it you never incur that expense.

这是一件好事，因为垃圾收集有一些开销，如果你从来没有做到这一点你永远不会承担费用。

This is generally not a good thing.

这通常不是一件好事。

Apart from that, my friend Gilberto told me that a move to Hertha could be a good thing for me.

除此之外，我的朋友吉尔伯托也告诉我转会到赫塔对我来说将是一件好事。

He is a key player for us and his eagerness to sign a long-term deal is great, said Gill.

他是我们的关键球员，他想延长自己的合约是一件好事，吉尔说。

He did me a good turn, and so I'll help him whenever I can .

他为我做了这一件好事，因此一旦做得到，我就会帮助他。

John has done a good turn to me.

约翰为我做了一件好事。

This is a good thing because it keeps our planet habitable.

这是一件好事，因为它使得我们的星球适合居住。

Both of the Hierophant's champion powers are useful, too; the Galeb Duhr can use Flight to great effect on some maps, and doing more damage is generally a good thing.

导师的两种菁英能力都很实用，哥砣石人可以使用飞行而在某些地图得到不错的效果，而造成更多的伤害本来就是一件好事。

A high-powered engine in a compact body is always a good thing.

高功率的引擎在一个紧凑的身体始终是一件好事。

I bet all that hubbub isn't very good for eggs either.

我敢打赌那些吵闹声对于企鹅蛋来说不是一件好事。

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。