不能吃的

I am assured by our Merchants, that a Boy or Girl, before twelve years Old, is no saleable Commodity, and even when they come to this Age, they will not yield above three Pounds, or three Pounds and half a Crown at most on the Exchange, which cannot turn to Account either to the Parents or the Kingdom, the Charge of Nutriments and Rags having been at least four times that Value.

我从我们的商人那里得到确证，十二岁前的男孩或女孩作为商品并不适合销售，即使他们到了十二岁，他们的利润也不会多于三镑，最多通过交易获利三镑五先令，可这并不能补偿他们的父母，也不能补偿王国，他们吃过的营养品和穿过的衣物的钱至少是这些的四倍。

With the rapid growth of an urban middle class, mooncakes have become a form of currency, not so much to be eaten (some Chinese confess to disliking them) as to be given with careful thought as to the cost of their ingredients and the lavishness of their packaging.

随着城市中产阶级的快速增长，月饼更多的含义已不是它们能吃（一些中国人承认并不喜欢吃月饼），而是转换成了一种货币符号——以在月饼的配料和奢侈的包装上花费的多少来决定月饼价值的高低。

I dine between twelve and one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture along with the house, could not, or would not, comprehend my request that I might be served at five, on mounting the stairs with this lazy intention, and stepping into the

但是，吃过午饭（注意——我在十二点与一点钟之间吃午饭，而可以当作这所房子的附属物的管家婆，一位慈祥的太太却不能，或者并不愿理解我请求在五点钟开饭的用意），在我怀着这个懒惰的想法上了楼，迈进屋子的时候，看见一个女仆跪在地上，身边是扫帚和煤斗。

I think he's seriously sick. We shouldn't give him just any over-the-counter medicines.

我看他的病情似乎不轻，我们不能随便买成药给他吃。

It had two choices: either trout or an omelet, served with quinoa soup and tea.

Steve 不喜欢他的煎蛋，我不能帮他吃，煎蛋太咸啦。

For no man prospers so suddenly as by others' errors; Serpens nisi serpentem comederit non fit draco.

因为突然发达、一步登天者无不得益于别人的错误；拉丁谚语说：蛇若不吃蛇，不能成为龙。

If we have money .we can travell around the world , eating good food, money can only buy some thing you want , but not all .

有钱我们可以去环游世界，吃好吃，钱能买到一些你想要的东西，但不能全部买到你想要的东西。

To milk my She-goats, and manage my little Flock, in the Wood; which as it was quite on the other Part of the Island, was quite out of Danger; for certain it is, that these Savage People who sometimes haunted this Island, never came with any Thoughts of finding any Thing here; and consequently never wandred off from the Coast; and I doubt not, but they might have been several Times on Shore, after my Apprehensions of them had made me cautious as well as before; and indeed, I look'd back with some Horror upon the Thoughts of what my Condition would have been, if I had chop'd upon them, and been discover'd before that, when naked and unarm'd, except with one Gun, and that loaden often only with small Shot, I walk'd every where peeping, and peeping about the Island, to see what I could get; what a Surprise should I have been in, if when I discover'd the Print of a Man's Foot, I had instead of that, seen fifteen or twenty Savages, and found them pursuing me, and by the Swiftness of their Running, no Possibility of my escaping them.

羊群在岛的另一边，因此没有什么危险。因为那些偶尔上岛的野人，从来没有想在岛上找到什么东西，所以他们从不离开海岸向岛里走。我也毫不怀疑，自从我处处小心提防他们之后，他们还照常到岛上来过好几次。真的，我一想到我过去出游的情况，不禁不寒而栗。我以前外出只带一支枪，枪里装的也是一些小子弹。就这样我在岛上到处东走走，西瞧瞧，看看能不能弄到什么吃的东西。在这种情况下，假使碰上他们，或被他们发现，我该怎么办呢？因为，我没有多少自卫能力。或者，假定我当时看到的不是一个人的脚印，而是一二十个野人，一见到我就向我追来。他们善于奔跑，我是无论如何跑不过他们的，那我必定会落在他们手里！

"If you don"t eat yer meat, you cant have any pudding.

如果你不吃完你的肉，你就不能得到一点布丁

I could not remember him; but I knew that he was my own uncle- my mother's brother- that he had taken me when a parentless infant to his house; and that in his last moments he had required a promise of Mrs.

决心也同样鼓动起来，激发我去采取某种奇怪的手段，来摆脱难以忍受的压迫，譬如逃跑，要是不能奏效，那就不吃不喝，活活饿死。

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。