可是

By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are.

我们本不应该在这，可是我们来了。

A: Yes, and you will still have to pay her by the hour...

答：是的，可是你仍然要按小时支付她。。。

But I grew up by the side of West Lake.

可是我是在西湖边长大的。

Atlanta was only twenty miles away but the train crawled interminably through the wet early autumn afternoon, stopping at every bypath for passengers.

亚特兰大离马里塔只有二十英里，可是火车在多雨的初秋下午断断续续地爬行着，在每条小径旁都要停车让行人通过。

I really hate to get personal, but I have to remind you that you are much older than Byron.

我真不想过问别人的私事，不过我得提醒你，你可是比拜伦年长多了。

Even more important than this, however, was the growing stability and self-confidence of Byzantium in domestic and foreign affairs alike.

可是，甚至比这一点更重要的是拜占廷国家变得越来越巩固，而且拜占廷在国内外事务中也变得愈发自信了。

C d- o To live long is almost everyone's wish, but to live well is the ambitiion of a few.

活得长几乎是每个人的愿望，可是生活得好只是少数人的志气。

The National Institute of Mental Health is funding a trial of McFarlane's work, and while he is still writing up his data for publication, his a n e c d o t a l results are promising: most of the kids are so far avoiding a first psychotic episode.

全国精神健康学院正在对McFarlane的工作的一次试验进行资助，虽然他还在为发表而记录数据，可是他的非正式结果已经展现目前大多数儿童都避免了首次精神病发作。

The cab stopped in the midst of Robert Audley's meditation, and he had to pay the cabman, and submit to all the dreary mechanism of life, which is the same whether we are glad or sorry--whether we are to be married or hung, elevated to the woolsack or disbarred by our brother benchers on some mysterious technical tangle of wrong-doing, which is a social enigma to those outside the Middle Temple.

罗伯特·奥德利沉思到中途时马车就停下来了，他得付给车夫车钱，得屈从于人生的一切可怕的机械装置：不论你高兴或是悲哀，那可都是一样的——不论你是结婚了还是给绞死了，不论你是升到了英国上院议长兼大法官的职位上，还是被律师协会的同仁们开除出了律师界——根据的却是神秘的技术观点所谓不道德行为的纠纷；就"中殿法学协会"的局外人看来，那可是社会之谜。

East and West are looking at each other, specific people are meeting together. Still, the "Tower" set up in Hangzhou's San Marco Square is actually impotent and caddish, due to the lack of knowledge and training of the Venetian civilization's context, this make it superficial.

东西方在相互观看，具体的人在相互认识，可是，由于缺乏文明语境的知识训练，由于肤浅的炫耀心理，那座建立在马可波罗赞叹的中国城市里的圣马可广场的"塔"是阳痿的和缺乏教养的。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失