体面

If you happen, as I do, to be chief sportswriter of The Times, you will get a lot of letters from young people wondering how to get a job that seems – quite correctly – to combine a reasonable amount of money and prestige.

如果你恰巧像我一样成为了时代杂志运动版的主编，你将会收到许多年轻人的来信，他们会问你怎样的一份工作能让他们既有体面的工资还有不错的地位。

The Final Squadron power is deals decent damage at it's target, but isn't the best.

最后中队的权力是涉及体面损害它的目标，但不是最好的。

Sure China has large standing Army and decent economy, but they have no navy to delever its troops.

相信中国经济大常备军和体面，但他们没有delever海军部队。

I am tall, stately and handsome, which I owe to my parents. It has nothing to do with my ability.

我长得高大威严、英俊体面，这都是我父母生给我的，跟我的才能没有什么关系，这方面不用你说，难道我自己不知道？

He could step aside now without loss of face.

他现在可以体面地让位了。

He was an undersized stocky man who did not seem to know how to dress very well or could not afford it.

这个人太矮胖，仿佛并不知道该怎样穿得体面些，也许是穿不起。

When we do the math, we discover that an averagely decent streamliner with a drag coefficient of .3 can go farther than 1021 km in 24 hours on only 110 watts of human power (enough effort to go 15 kph or 9 mph on a mountain bike).

当我们这样做数学，我们发现，一个平均体面streamliner的风阻系数在0.3可以做得比一千零二十一公里在24小时内就只有110瓦的人力（足够的努力去15公里或9英里每小时在山地自行车）。

I always wear my Sunday best to church on Christmas.

我在圣诞节总是穿著我最体面的衣服上教堂。

The lewd suggestions of some faded beauty may console him for a consort neglected and debauched but this new exponent of morals and healer of ills is at his best an exotic tree which, when rooted in its native orient, throve and flourished and was abundant in balm but, transplanted to a clime more temperate, its roots have lost their quondam vigour while the stuff that comes away from it is stagnant, acid and inoperative.

为了体面，而轻易不肯泄露，色衰之美女或以淫言猥语挑逗之，代替因被冷遇以致堕落之妻，给彼以慰藉。然而人伦之新倡导者以及恶行之矫正者，充腴量仅为异邦之树。其扎根于东方本上时，则茁壮繁茂，香脂丰腴，造移植于他处暖土，根即失去原有之勃勃生气，香脂亦变为混浊发酸，失去灵效。

The only model they had in stock that was of decent quality to withstand a 400 mile road trip was made by Thule and costed out at $185 US.

唯一的模式，他们在股票，这是体面的素质，以经受住400英里的客场之旅是由thule和估算其费用在185元美。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！