俄国

The word "bridge" comes from Russian Whist, called "biritch," meaning announcer or herald.

桥牌一词来源于俄国的&惠斯特&—& biritch&，系指城镇大声宣读公告的人的公务职责，就是宣读政府的法令和布告。

This is the reasoning chain of Russian intellectuals\' strange behavior.

这是俄国知识分子行为古怪的推理链条，它在逻辑上缺乏根据，在心理上却是紧紧衔接的。

The thickening stench hangs over the city, a metaphor for the wider decay in Russian society where aristocrats dance the night away and the poor starve in mouldy rooms.

浓厚的恶臭笼罩着城市，这是对腐朽的俄国社会的隐喻。夜晚贵族们载歌载舞，穷人却在发霉的屋子里忍受饥饿。

The thickening stench hangs over the city, a metaphor for the wider decay in Russian society where aristocrats dance the night away and the poor starve in mouldy rooms.

恶臭不断蔓延，笼罩着整个圣彼得堡，象征着俄国社会一步步走向腐朽。在这里，贵族通宵达旦，载歌载舞；穷人却在发霉的屋子里忍饥挨饿。

The thickening stench hangs over the city, a metaphor for the wider decay in Russian society where aristocrats dance the night away and the poor starve in mouldy rooms.

恶臭不断蔓延，笼罩着整个圣彼得堡，它象征着俄国社会一步步走向腐朽。在这里，贵族通宵达旦，载歌载舞；穷人却在发霉的屋子里忍饥挨饿。

The navy trainees take education practice in spring and summer, and exercise in autumn, learning forms and means to attack and defend, even taking the coastal defense test.

海军成员的教学实践在春、夏季节进行，秋季进行演习，展现进攻和防御的形式和方法，甚至进行沿岸防御的测试。20世纪初俄国有舵手和信号兵学校、水雷学校、电子技术学校、机械师学校、潜水员学校，另外还设立了音乐学校和修理学校等等。

It is also full of statuettes of eagles; a double-headed eagle was the symbol of czarist Russia.

沙皇俄国的标志──双头鹰小塑像也随处可见。

The limit of Russian endurance was reached.

俄国人的忍耐力到了极限。

The marshals, accompanied by adjutants, galloped in various directions, and in a few minutes the chief forces of the French army were moving towards those heights of Pratzen, which were left more and more exposed by the Russian troops as the latter kept moving to the left towards the valley.

几个元帅在副官们的伴随下朝着不同的方向疾驰而去，几分钟以后法国军队的主力便向普拉茨高地迅速地挺进，俄国部队正向左边的谷地走去，普拉茨高地显得愈益空旷了。

Not having reckoned on meeting the enemy at the stream, and coming upon them unexpectedly in the fog, not hearing a word of encouragement from their commanding officers, with a general sense of being too late, and seeing nothing before or about them in the fog, the Russians fired slowly and languidly at the enemy, never receiving a command in time from the officers and adjutants, who wandered about in the fog in an unknown country, unable to find their own divisions.

主要是，在浓雾之中看不见自己前面和周围的任何东西，俄国人懒洋洋地、行动迟缓地和敌人对射，向前推进一点，又停下来，没有及时地接到首长和副官的命令，他们没有去找自己的部队，却在雾气沉沉的不熟悉的地区徘徊寻路。

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。