一件好事

It is a good thing that at about the same time the angel food cake was invented the rotary egg beater came along which eliminated the long and laborious hand beating of batters.

这是一件好事，是在同一时间的天使食品蛋糕是发明了旋转鸡蛋搅拌器来沿着这消除了长期和艰苦的手殴打击球手。

By definition, not knowing about a principle constitutes a massive underdoing of it, so you haven't bracketed the problem until you find yourself in an excess of a good thing.

这是因为从定义上来讲，对某一概念缺乏了解会桎梏实践，所以对一件好事来讲，只有当你做过了头，你才能充分了解整个问题的尺度。

He remarked that it was a good thing this was his day off.

他表示，这是一件好事，这是他一天假。

If my remising can avoid a bloody war, it fairly is a good thing.

如果这样能避开一场血腥的战事，毋宁是一件好事。

"And that is a good thing for the future, to see how everyone responds to the problems."

&那对未来是一件好事，因为可以看清每一个人对问题做出的反应。&

Even a brief examination of the historic practice of courts and employers would show that the fruit of such laws has been bitter: they are, in practice, more of a curse than a blessing.

但是，只要对法庭案例和雇主的历史作短暂回顾，就能够发现这些法律的成果是多么的令人不愉快：实际上，这种法律与其说是一件好事，不如说是一种灾祸。

Even a brief examination of the historic practice of courts and employers would show that the fruit of such laws has been bitter: they are, in practice, more of a curse than a blessing.

但是，只要对法庭案例和雇主的历史作短暂回顾，就能够发现這些法律的成果是多么的令人不愉快：实际上，這种法律与其说是一件好事，不如说是一种灾祸。

Once men had developed this lust, then it would become to the advantage of nulliparas to resemble their more mature rivals.

女人身上的乳房让他们失去性欲的这种本能曾经是一件好事，但是过了不久这种本能却成了一种劣势。

But when "the last war" comes up in school, it's taught in quite a theoretical way, as in:"Is war against another country a good thing?"

但当&上一次战争&在学校里被提起时，它的传授方式则比较理论化，比如：&对另一个国家开战是不是一件好事呢？&

"I hope my dress will be ready in time for the State-ball," she answered;"I have ordered passion-flowers to be embroidered on it; but the seamstresses are so lazy."

&那是因为你做了一件好事，&王子说。于是小燕子开始想王子的话，不过没多久便睡着了。对他来说，一思考问题就老想困觉。

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。