冬天

What a remarkable phenomenon," said the Professor of Ornithology as he was passing over the bridge."A swallow in winter!

真是不可思议的现象，"一位鸟禽学教授从桥上走过时开口说道，"冬天竟会有燕子！

Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this remarkable inscription:-- CARPES HO GRAS.

有天早晨，于什鲁忽然灵机一动，要把他这一"拿手好菜"给过路行人介绍一番，他拿起一管毛笔，在一个黑颜料钵里蘸上墨汁，由于他的拼写法和他的烹调法同样有他的独到之处，便在他的墙上信手涂写了这几个引人注目的大字： CARPES HO GRAS①有一年冬天，雨水和夹雪骤雨，出于兴之所至，把第一个词词尾的S和第三个词前面的G抹去了，剩下的只是： CARPE HO RAS②①Ho gras是au gras之误，但发音相同。

It is winter. It is cold outdoors.

译：这是冬天，外面很冷。

Of course, he has me over a barrel because I'm anxious to retire and go to Florida and I can't find anybody else who wants to buy.

美国有不少人退休后就到佛罗里达州去生活，最主要的是那里天气好，冬天不冷，又是沿海，风景很好。

But these first rubber overshoes and raincoats were all soft and sticky in summer,and hard and inelastic in the winter when it was cold.

但最初的橡胶雨衣和雨鞋在夏天都很软而且粘，而冬天当它变冷时，它又变得硬而且没有弹性。

Still have the algorithm with a few large current to Baidu center, it is to overtax one's nerves very, and the arrival as the winter, more stationmaster choose to leave.

还有一些大站长对于百度目前的算法，很是伤神，而随着冬天的到来，更多的站长选择离开。

I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.

那也是我，不眠的孀妇眺望着冬天的深夜

So during his vacation in Palm Beach that winter, he became intensely interested in commodity price movements.

所以当他冬天在棕榈滩度假时，他对商品价格的波动非常关注。

In the winter of 1975, from the murky water off Palos Verdes, California, a sport diver uncovered and raised a large circular stone with a hole through its center.

1975年冬天，一个潜水运动员在加利福尼亚州的帕洛斯·弗迪斯海岸外的浑水中发现一个很大的圆形石块并把它打捞起来。在这石块的中心有一个穿透的洞。

While one thick garment is, for most purposes, as good as three thin ones, and cheap clothing can be obtained at prices really to suit customers; while a thick coat can be bought for five dollars, which will last as many years, thick pantaloons for two dollars, cowhide boots for a dollar and a half a pair, a summer hat for a quarter of a dollar, and a winter cap for sixty-two and a half cents, or a better be made at home at a nominal cost, where is he so poor that, clad in such a suit, of his own earning, there will not be found wise men to do him reverence?

一件厚衣服的用处，大体上可跟三件薄的衣服相同，便宜的衣服可以用真正适合顾客财力的价格买到，一件厚厚的上衣五元就可以买到了，它可以穿上好几年，厚厚的长裤两元钱，牛皮靴一元半，夏天的帽子不过一元的四分之一，冬天的帽子六毛两分半，或许还可以花上一笔极少的钱，自己在家里制一顶更好的帽子，那穿上了这样的一套自己辛勤劳动赚来的衣服，哪里还是贫穷，难道会没有聪明人来向他表示敬意吗？

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。