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The duplicitous nature of Ming was played so well by Lau that by the last scene, you are still not sure whether he truly wants to be good, or was it all just an act that he has perfected?

刘德华把刘健明的双重性格演绎得如此之好，以致于直到最后一个镜头，你都不能肯定是他真的想做一个好人，又或者这一切不过是他漂亮的一出戏。

"First the electroencephalograph (which is simply a device for recording the electrical activity of the brain by attaching electrode s to the scalp) shows that while there is a change in the pattern of activity during sleep, there is no evidence that the total amount of activity is any less."

第一个因素是脑电图(它不过是一种通过贴在头皮上的电极来测定脑部电活动的仪器)表明在睡眠期间脑部活动形式有改变但活动总量无任何减少。

What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call death---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American educator and poet.

表象上的死亡实际是在过渡；俗世生活不过是天堂的城郊，入口叫做死亡---亨利。瓦德沃斯。朗费罗，美国教育家和诗人。

We find ourselves thus going round and round in a circle: mind is an emanation of body, and body is an invention of mind.

这时，我们在一个陷阱里绕圈圈：精神是身体功能的一种外射，而身体不过是精神活动的一个发明。

In the Discourses, Epictetus comments on man's relationship with the world: Each human being is primarily a citizen of his own commonwealth; but he is also a member of the great city of gods and men, where of the city political is only a copy.

爱比克泰德在《语录》中注释了人与世界的关系：每个人首先是自己共和国的公民；但他也是众神与众人伟大之城的成员，政治城邦不过是它的副本。

Consciousness is merely an inefficacious by-product, an epiphenomenon which has never modified in any degree the movements of matter concerned in the history of the human race.

意识不过是一个无效的副产物，是一个伴随现象，其中没有修饰，在任何程度的变动事宜，在人类有史以来的。

ON THE face of it, John Reader's new biography of the potato seems to have a silly title—"propitious esculent" is just a fancy way to say "helpful food"—and an even sillier subtitle.

约翰。里德尔最近为马铃薯立了一部传。印在传记封面上的书名——不过是别出心裁的把"有益食物"说成是"吉祥食物"罢了——看似愚蠢，而书的副题则更加可笑。

Still have conduct propaganda I had made easy alliance, dare not flatter really, customer service is pretty good, it is to give him to advertise in vain nevertheless, I once had looked for a few friends to order ad a few times, look have income, eventuate 0, I hanged 10 days, made money only 1 yuan of money, this alliance is not recommended.

还有宣传易联盟我做过，真是不敢恭维了，客服是不错，不过是白给他做广告，我曾经找过几个朋友点几下广告，看有没有收入，结果为0，我挂了10天，只赚钱了1元钱，此联盟不推荐。

They are not real friends but fair-weather friends.

他们不过是些酒肉便宜，并不是真正的朋友。

Even in this brief epitome I ought to say that all who departed for the provinces across the sea, whether proconsuls or governors appointed by the emperor, went out of their way to see him at Rhodes, and on meeting him they lowered their fasces to him though he was but a private citizen — if such majesty could ever belong to a private citizen — thereby confessing that his retirement was more worthy of honour than their official position.

即使是在这部简史中，我也要说，所有跨海赴任的省督，无论是代执政官级的还是皇帝钦命的总督，都要绕道罗德岛来拜访他。会面时，尽管提比略不过是一介白丁——假如这样的贵人也能被叫做白丁的话——他们都要垂下其"法西斯"，由此而证明他在隐退之后比起这些在任的总督仍更值得尊敬。

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。