固然

Of course I have a sense of humor. I gave you the platypus didn't I?--God

我固然有幽默感，我不是为你们制造了鸭嘴兽了吗？

So although these studies are helpful in improving our understanding of polysemous words, many things remain to be a mystery.

这固然有利于提高人们对多义词的认识，但对多义词形成的具体情况以及多义词的词义之间的关系，则仍然不很清楚。

The most effective commentary on an age or an event is as often as not oblique rather than direct, and the impact is no less powerful for being rerouted … Tolkien is too often dismissed out of hand as an anachronism, a contemporary Pre-Raphaelite trying to present that the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment have not happened. On the contrary, any thoughtful reading of his work that looks below the surface will show that he is in fact quite a modern thinker, dipping into the past for the stuff of story but reworking it for the age in which he lived and felt.

至于他和Edith的爱情，看起来很多地方离神仙眷侣的标准实在差太远，但两人之间的感情却超越了这一切，Beren和Luthien固然传奇，但托老和Edith却更令俺感动，年老时，可以有一个人牵着手，两个人两条拐杖，慢慢地走在路上，哪个曾是意气风发高声朗诵萨迦的疯狂大学教授，哪个曾是黑发灰目在林中翩翩起舞的美人都不再重要了吧，只要大家在一起就好。

Macro-control is important, but we can not say that is a prerequisite.

宏观调控固然重要，但我们不能说这是一个先决条件。

He had a holy wrath against the prince of darkness; but He manifested no irritated temper.

他固然对黑暗之君发义怒，却没有表现暴躁的性格。

Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn; On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn: I prithee, name the time, but let it not Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent; And yet his trespass, in our common reason— Save that, they say, the wars must make examples

他对於自己的行为失检，的确非常悔恨；固然在这种战争的时期，听说必须惩办那最好的人物，给全军立个榜样，可是照我们平常的眼光看来，他的过失实在是微乎其微，不必受什麼个人的处分。

Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn; On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn: I prithee, name the time, but let it not Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent; And yet his trespass, in our common reason— Save that, they say, the wars must make examples Out of their best—is not almost a fault To incur a private cheque.

他对於自己的行为失检，的确非常悔恨；固然在这种战争的时期，听说必须惩办那最好的人物，给全军立个榜样，可是照我们平常的眼光看来，他的过失实在是微乎其微，不必受什麼个人的处分。什麼时候让他来？

A private tutor could be very helpful, but in the long run you have to learn to study all by yourself.

私人教师固然有所帮助，但最终你还是要学会靠自己去学。

It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from it. But a cramp, he thought of it as a calambre, humiliates oneself especially when one is alone.

一个人中了尸毒当众上吐下泻固然丢脸，但是对于一个独处的人来说，抽筋更是可耻。

Some like Xiaolongnv and ZhouBoTong although has an outstanding intelligence,puerility also plays a role in their minds.

像小龙女、周伯通之类的人物，智力固然卓异，但也有其木讷、天真的一面。

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。