体面

These pontificating presidents, kings, and warlords who preach about life and democracy have spent the last generation sending their armies to war, overthrowing regimes, authorizing covert assassinations, arming gangs and militias, trading weapons for political favors, buying protection from thugs, cozying up to terrorists, lauding autocrats, making deals with dictators, imprisoning tens of thousands of foes, torturing at will, thumbing their nose at the UN Charter, buying and bullying judges, ignoring true democrats, and blindly refusing even to hear the simple demands of their own citizens for minimum decency and dignity.

这些总统、国王和军阀一边鼓吹生命和民主，一边将最年轻的一代耗尽，派军队去作战，推翻政权，授权暗杀，武装匪帮和民兵、交易武器以获得政治利益，花钱从刺客那里买保护，哄哄恐怖分子，歌颂独裁者，和他们做交易，把成千上万的反对者关进监狱，妄用酷刑，无视联合国宪章，收买或恐吓法官，置真正的民主主义者于不顾，为了一丝体面一毫尊严他们盲目拒绝听取国民最简单的要求。

These pontificating presidents, kings, and warlords who preach about life and democracy have spent the last generation sending their armies to war, overthrowing regimes, authorizing covert assassinations, arming gangs and militias, trading weapons for political favors, buying protection from thugs, cozying up to terrorists, lauding autocrats, making deals with dictators, imprisoning tens of thousands of foes, torturing at will, thumbing their nose at the UN Charter, buying and bullying judges, ignoring true democrats, and blindly refusing even to hear the simple demands of their own citizens for minimum decency and dignity.

这些爱摆架子的总统，国王和军阀领袖们成天鼓吹生命和民主，而他们却以牺牲整整一代人为代价，发动军队参与战争，推翻政府，批准暗杀行动，武装匪徒和民兵，为得到政治支持而买卖武器，收买暴徒充当打手，奉承恐怖分子，美化独裁统治者，跟独裁分子交易，囚禁折磨众多反对者，对联合国宪章置之不理，收买威胁法官，拒绝真正的民主人士，甚至拒绝倾听他的公民哪怕是最微小的关于尊严和体面的要求。

"And I yours, sir," I replied curtseying and unobtrusively amiring the gold trimmed coat, ornately threaded waistcoat and blue breeches neatly enclosing a veritibal Greek god.

我们像往常一样按时置办好一些小宗商品，正准备把它们配送出去。就在这当口，我忽然发现大街上有个英俊而又衣著体面的青年男子。他正兴致勃勃地透过窗户盯着我们。

Nor do I want to belittle the opportunities for small decencies in cities -- the eruptions of one-stranger-to-another caring that always surprise and delight.

同时我也不想贬低这一点，即城市里有机会遇到正直体面的小事——陌生人之间涌现出的相互照顾，它们总能给你带来惊喜。

Encouraged by this use of her christian name she kissed passionately all the various suitable areas of his person which the decencies of prison garb permitted her ardour to reach.

听到这样称她的教名、她深受鼓舞。于是她就以不至于损害他那身囚衣的体面为度，热情地吻着他身上所有那些适当的部位。

Liberty had to prevail in the Middle East, the president declaimed,"and that's why this business about graceful exit simply has no realism to it at all."

总统重申，自由在中东地区必须取得成功，&这就是为什么所谓体面的撤离一点都不现实的原因。&

Liberty had to prevail in the Middle East, the president declaimed,"and that's why this business about graceful exit simply has no realism to it at all."

布什辩称，自由之风要遍及中东，&这就是为什么有关体面撤退的说法根本是毫无根据的。&

It would be shameful if you dined at any canteen in the United States and dumped food like that.

如果你在霉国餐厅这么做的话是一件不体面的事情。

My father is a respectable merchant. He goes to his office every day from morn till evening, and he dines out.

我的父亲是一位体面商人，他每天从晨至晚到他的办事处去，他在外面吃饭的。

As soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage

没有可能仅仅为了娱乐或锻炼而运动：一旦有了问题，一旦你觉得你输了你和你所属团体会有失体面时，你最野蛮的好斗本能

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！