到那时

I was busy getting ready to show my winter fashions. Then just 13 days before the presentation the sewing girls were called out on strike. I found myself left with one tailor and woman who was in charge of the sewing room! I was as gloomy14 as my models and salesgirls.

那时，我在为冬季服装发布会忙碌，就在还有13天即将展示的时候，缝纫女工们罢工了，我只剩下一个裁缝，一个勤杂女工，我和模特、店员都到伤心沮丧，其中有人哭着说&我们完成不了了。&

As a mature couple living with our family in Australia, China appealed to us too and we knew only a little of the Chinese folklore and tradition. But our perception of China was typical of the given by many Australian people to China and its people pigtails, rickshaws, rice and so on.

对于一对久居澳大利亚的成年夫妇而言，中国同样也吸引着我们，我们从一些曾去过中国的人那里了解到一些中国的民间传统艺术，那时我们对中国人的感觉是很贫乏的，就是：辫子，人力车，米饭，诸如此类。

Only at that moment, I realised the importance of English language.

只有在那时，我才认识到英语的重要性。

That's when I realised that I'd been living in a fantasy world.

那时我才意识到自己一直生活在一个虚幻的世界里。

For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck.

因为日子将到，那时，人要说：那荒胎的，那没有生产过的胎，和没有哺养过的乳，是有福的。

You tend to oversteer, since you can't quite believe this thing is going to pick up your movements, so you exaggerate them.

你往往会把方向盘打过了头，那时因为你会不太相信这东西会探测到你的动作，所以你做出的动作会夸张。

A "quasi-personal" has said about his own life experience : Whenever emotional ups and downs are not normal times on the balcony of my stars, look at the moon, the night sky in the Star Rising behind it extraordinarily remote and quiet, then I will feel that the success or failure of individuals and honor in the face of the universe is not worth symbols; Encounter meteor; Is a pleasant surprise to me, an inspiration

一位&准散文家&曾谈起自己的生活体验说：&每当情绪起伏不平时，我就到阳台上看星星、瞧月亮，夜空在闪烁的星光背后显得格外幽深，那时，我会觉得个人的成败、荣辱在宇宙面前实在不值得耿耿于怀；遇上流星；更是给我一份惊喜、一份启迪……&

A particularly quaint British example of mass hysteria was "railway spine": 19th century rail passengers reported feeling faint and suffering back pain - a psychological reaction that experts at the time said was due to the effect of 30 mph speeds on the human body.

关于全民歇斯底里症的一个奇特而有趣的英国例子就是&铁路症候群&：在19世纪，有铁路乘客报告说感觉到晕眩和背痛——那时的专家说这是人的身体受30英里每小时的速度的影响而产生的一种心理反应。

It is possible to enjoy food and drink without having to reflect that you have a better cook and a better wine merchant than your former friends whom you are learning to cold shoulder.

我突然好伤感，又是一个12年，已经记不清第一个12年的时候的情形，也许那时没有本命年的概念因而没有注意到什么就过去了。

Though it got only seven or eight miles to the gallon, gas was cheap, dropping under thirty cents per gallon when there was a gas war on.

尽管每加仑汽油只能开七八英里，但那时汽油便宜，随着&汽油大战&的掀起，油价跌到了每加仑30美分。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。