俄国人

Defying the fate of "killing father and marrying mother," Prince Oedi ran away from State Coren. After solving the riddle of the Sphinx, he became the king of State Tee.

不愿接受"弑父娶母"的命运，俄狄王子断然离开养尊处优的柯兰国；在帮梯国人解开斯芬克斯之谜以后，梯国人推他为王。

Well, people in Chicago are just as American and God-fearing as people in Wyoming.

芝加哥的人和怀俄明州人并没有什么两样，芝加哥人也是很淳朴的美国人

VOA 's Peter Heinlein visited the Ethiopian town of Awassa, to meet an Ethiopian-American man who returned to the land of his birth to Make a Difference with youngsters hungry for learning.

记者海因莱因在埃塞俄比亚一个叫做阿瓦萨的小镇上，遇到了一名埃塞俄比亚裔的美国人。这位埃裔美国人回到自己的出生地，把读书的乐趣带给那里渴求知识的孩子们。

In the late eighteenth century, the French believed that potatoes caused leprosy; the Germans grew spuds only for cattle and for prisoners; the Russian peasant considered them to be poisonous.

在十八世纪晚期，法/国人相信土豆会引致麻疯病；德/国人只种植土豆作为牲口和囚犯的食物；俄/罗/斯的农民则认为土豆是有毒的。

Once war actually broke out the plan was initiated in a modified form, but a number of factors led to its failure, including German lack of mobility, increased Russian numbers, effective French resistance - and the reluctance of Schlieffen's successor, Helmuth von Moltke, to weaken his Eastern Front.

阿尔弗雷德·冯·施利芬于1913年1月4日死于柏林。施利芬计划假设倘若德军面临两线作战，即东线和西线，首先要在西线集中大量兵力，迅速通过比利时和荷兰，以侧翼的移动击溃法国，同时在东线只留下少量军队来拖住俄国人。

At first Napoleon's army made its whereabouts known—that was in the early period of the retreat along the Kaluga road—but afterwards, when they had taken to the Smolensk road, they ran holding the tongue of the bell; and often supposing they were running away, ran straight towards the Russians.

一开始，拿破仑军队在沿着卡卢日斯卡雅大道行进的时候，还让人知道他们所在的地点。可是，当他们走上通往斯摩棱斯克大道时，他们就不再&摇铃铛&了，悄然逃跑，他们常常以为自己已经逃避开了，这时却又迎头碰上了俄国人。

Why should that army, which found abundant provisions in Moscow and could not keep them, but trampled them underfoot, that army which could not store supplies on entering Smolensk, but plundered at random, why should that army have mended its ways in the Kaluga province, where the inhabitants were of the same Russian race as in Moscow, and where fire had the same aptitude for destroying whatever they set fire to.

这支军队在莫斯科能得到充足补给而不保住它，却任意践踏，在斯摩棱斯克不是征集而是抢劫给养，那么在卡卢加省——这里住着和莫斯科同样的俄国人，有同样可以放火的东西，为什么就能恢复元气呢？

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。