不值钱的东西

Into the mountain sunlight arrives Anthony Verey, antique dealer to the "ignorant rich" and adorer of fine furniture and plump-arsed boys.

他是那种专挑有钱但不知道家里什么东西值钱的主儿下手的古董商，酷爱精美家具和肥臀少男。

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society,deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree,which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb —— heard perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive board ——may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!

这卵已几世代地埋在好几层的、一圈圈围住的木头中间，放在枯燥的社会生活之中，起先在青青的有生命的白木质之间，后来这东西渐渐成了一个风干得很好的坟墓了，——也许它已经咬了几年之久，使那坐在这欢宴的餐桌前的一家子听到声音惊惶失措，——谁知道何等美丽的、有翅膀的生命突然从社会中最不值钱的、人家送的家具中，一下子跳了出来，终于享受了它完美的生命的夏天！

Under that, the miscellany began - a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.

在那套衣服的下面，开始出现了各式各样的东西：一个四分仪，一个锡制的小酒杯，几颗烟，两对非常漂亮的手铣，一根银条，一只西班牙老怀表，还有其他一些不值钱的小装饰品，大多是外国制造的，一副黄铜杆的圆规，还有五六个珍奇的西印度贝壳。

People see this as a here-and-now thing, not like,'If I buy this collector's coin right now, I'll put it under my mattress and it'll be worth a fortune 10 years from now,'' he said.

他说，人们会将奥巴马热催生出的产品看作即时消费品，他们想要的不是那种放在床垫下等上10年才会值钱的硬币，而是能表明自己融入了当前时尚潮流的东西。

People see this as a here-and-now thing, not like,'If I buy this collector's coin right now, I'll put it under my mattress and it'll be worth a fortune 10 years from now,'' he said.'They want something that shows,'I'm a part of this movement.

他说，人们会将奥巴马热催生出的产品看作即时消费品，他们想要的不是那种放在床垫下等上10年才会值钱的硬币，而是能表明自己融入了当前时尚潮流的东西。

If employees continue to ask for what we, as a society, used to be able to afford to offer them, then big corporations may simply shift their operations overseas where labor is dirt-cheap and labor and environmental protections are virtually non-existent.

如果雇员继续要求我们作为社会曾经能够负担提供给他们的东西，那么大公司可能直接将他们的生产线移到海外，那里劳动力不值钱，劳工保障和环境保护实际上不存在。

While I was doing this, I found the Tyde began to flow, tho' very calm, and I had the Mortification to see my Coat, Shirt and Wast-coat which I had left on Shore upon the Sand, swim away; as for my Breeches which were only Linnen and open knee'd, I swam on board in them and my Stockings: However this put me upon rummaging for Clothes, of which I found enough, but took no more than I wanted for present use, for I had other things which my Eye was more upon, as first Tools to work with on Shore, and it was after long searching that I found out the Carpenter's Chest, which was indeed a very useful Prize to me, and much more valuable than a Ship Loading of Gold would have been at that time; I got it down to my Raft, even whole as it was, without losing time to look into it, for I knew in general what it contain'd.

在我这般忙碌的时候，只见潮水开始上涨，虽然风平浪静，但还是把我留在岸边的上衣、衬衫和背心全部冲走了。这使我非常懊丧，因为我游泳上船时，只穿了一条长短及膝的麻纱短裤和一双袜子。这倒使我不得不找些衣服穿了。船里衣服很多，但我只挑了几件目前要穿的，因为我认为有些东西更重要，尤其是木工工具。我找了半天，总算找到了那只木匠箱子。此时工具对我来说是最重要的，即使是整船的金子也没有这箱木匠工具值钱。我把箱子放到木排上，不想花时间去打开看一下，因为里面装些什么工具我心里大致有数。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了