冰岛人

If they are unique, it is only that the costs of their defiance are clearer than normal.

如果这件事情有其特殊性，那也只能是冰岛人反抗的成本比平常更加明显。

Icelanders believe only a dolt is unable to see the other fellow's position.

冰岛人认为只有傻瓜才不考虑别人的利益。

Icelanders believe only a dolt『笨蛋;傻瓜』is unable to see the other fellows position.

冰岛人认为只有傻瓜才不考虑别人的利益。

Icelanders claim that charging 5.5% interest over 15 years is extortionate in an era of near-zero base rates.

冰岛人声称，在几乎零基准利率的年代索要15年以上5.5%的高利率简直是敲诈。

Swedes who have Santa Claus held a grand-scale settlement ceremony; Norway who is interested in so that Santa Claus lived in them there; Icelanders think that's the Greenland ice and snow to live the best Santa Claus; the Americans insisted that Santa Claus has lived in the past, Alaska; even the Japanese will also be the home of Hokkaido as a Santa Claus. In July 1996, in the Danish capital Copenhagen Santa Claus World Congress, live in the world, 18 countries 150 Santa Claus has been invited to attend this event can not except the mountains of Santa Claus from the ear.

瑞典人曾为圣诞老人举行过规模盛大的定居仪式；挪威人有意让圣诞老人住在他们那里；冰岛人则认为冰天雪地的格陵兰岛最适合圣诞老人居住；美国人却坚持说圣诞老人过去一直住在阿拉斯加；就连日本人也将北海道作为圣诞老人的家乡。1996年7月，在丹麦首都哥本哈根召开圣诞老人世界大会，居住在世界18个国家的150名圣诞老人被应邀出席了这次盛会，可惟独没有来自耳朵山的圣诞老人。

Playing in deserted fish factories, outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened caves and the hoofprint of Odin's horse, Sleipnir*, the band reached an entirely new spectrum of the Icelandic population; young and old, ardent and merely quizzical, entirely by word-of-mouth.

在废弃的渔船*上，在被排斥于艺术之外的时事讽刺剧中，在被远远抛弃的社区会所中，在林地，阴暗的洞穴与奥丁之马Sleipnir *的蹄印，乐队触及了冰岛人分布的全新范围；年老年少，冷嘲热讽，一概口述。

Icesave's debt in the UK alone would be enough to pay the annual salary of every Icelander.

冰岛银行旗下的 IceSave ，其欠下的债务，仅仅是英国的部分，就要所有的冰岛人用其一年的薪水来还。

"We Icelanders are very bad church attendees," an Icelander says,"We prefer communing with nature; we love nothing more than driving out into the wilderness where you can be utterly and absolutely alone."

"我们冰岛人很少去教堂。"一个冰岛人说，"我们更喜欢陶醉在大自然中；没有比开车驶入荒野更让我们喜欢的了，在那儿你可以完全、彻底地独处。"

So I think, in the future, there will be more and more people to get to learn Icelandic. And more Chinese people learn Icelandic, more Icelanders learn Chinese.

我想，将来将会有更多的冰岛人学习汉语，也会有更多的中国人学习冰岛语。

Since the collapse of the currency in October and amid a banking crisis that has saddled many Icelanders with unpayable debts (and cost many foreigners their savings), thousands of people, mainly left-wingers, had gathered each week to vent their anger.

自从十月份爆发货币崩溃并伴随着使许多冰岛人背上无法偿付的债务（并赔上了许多外国人的积蓄）的银行危机后，数以千计的人，主要是左翼份子，每周都会聚集起来发泄他们的不满。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷