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We are simple creatures yet our livers are complicated stories.

我们不过是简单的生物，我们的生命是一言难尽的曲折。

I am not the best one, but the luckiest one.

我不是最好的一个不过是最幸运的一个。

The country does for ruler's machine, always all is dominates above the people;"The people deceive the common people for on",忠孝 the justice and humanity are only attractive shackles.

国家做为统治者的机器，从来都是凌驾于人民之上；&民为上&胡弄老百姓吧，忠孝仁义不过是一个漂亮的枷锁。

And Father was Noel Ashenden, who though he did not actually invent the match-book, went into the field when it was still a not very flourishing novelty, and whose slogan, almost a poem,'Close Cover Before Striking'(a simple stroke, as Father liked to say), obvious only after someone else has already thought of it (the Patent Office refused to issue a patent on what it claimed was merely an instruction, but Father's company had the message on its matchbooks before his competitors even knew what was happening), removed the hazard from book matches and turned the industry and Father's firm particularly into a flaming success overnight— Father's joke, not mine.

父亲的广告标语是：&划之前，盖合严&（象老爷子爱说的那样，就是划一下），诗意盎然呵。显然，之前已经有人想到了这一标语（专利办称标语不过是一项说明，拒绝签发专利，但是父亲公司把标语印在了纸板火柴上，其时，他的竞争对手还不清楚发生了什么事）。

Not at all, says Martin. Only namesakes.

501&根本不是，&马丁说，不过是同姓而已。

But since they affect only the market dogsbodies[3], rather than the middlemen, they actually seem designed to remove non-Slavic faces from the stalls.

按照官方的设想，新法规将帮助俄罗斯农民，让他们的产品卖个好价钱，而事实上对于那些中间批发商而言，几乎没产生任何影响，受影响的不过是那些小商贩，所以新法规的出台看来只不过是为将非斯拉夫人赶走。

Hence the new rules, which are officially supposed to help Russian farmers get better prices for their produce. But since they affect only the market dogsbodies, rather than the middlemen, they actually seem designed to remove non-Slavic faces from the stalls.

按照官方的设想，新法规将帮助俄罗斯农民，让他们的产品卖个好价钱，而事实上对于那些中间批发商而言，几乎没产生任何影响，受影响的不过是那些小商贩，所以新法规的出台看来只不过是为将非斯拉夫人赶走。

Hence the new rules, which are officially su osed to help Ru ian farmers get better prices for their produce. But since they affect only the market dog odies[3], rather than the middlemen, they actually seem designed to remove non-Slavic faces from the stalls.

按照官方的设想，新法规将帮助俄罗斯农民，让他们的产品卖个好价钱，而事实上对于那些中间批发商而言，几乎没产生任何影响，受影响的不过是那些小商贩，所以新法规的出台看来只不过是为将非斯拉夫人赶走。

The voice of God on earth is the voice of the Church Militant; and all the voices that come to you are the echoes of your own wilfulness.

战斗教会的声音才是上帝在尘世的声音，而你听到的不过是你乖僻的心声而已。

However, what strikes me is Inca civilization was only 500 years ago, almost the same period of China's Song Dynasty and post-Renaissance era in Europe.

但是， 我也第一次明白了所谓的印加文明，不过是500年前的产物，与同时代东方的宋朝，以及西方的文艺复兴时期相比，那些印加的古城还有所谓的神秘 Nazca 线条实在是微不足道。

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。