坚硬的

I stood on the second story of the building. I leaned against the wall, my eyes settling with determined calm on the deeply varnished heart pine floor.

我站在这栋建筑物的二楼上，身体靠着墙壁，凝视着那极具光泽的坚硬松木制地板，我的眼神中透露出一种坚定的镇静。

Nov. 18. The next Day in searching the Woods I found a Tree of that Wood, or like it, which, in the Brasils they call the Iron Tree, for Its exceeding Hardness, of this, with great Labour and almost spoiling my Axe, I cut a Piece, and brought it home too with Difficulty enough, for it was exceeding heavy.

十一月十八日第二天，我去树林里搜寻，发现一种树，像巴西的&铁树&，因为这种树的木质特别坚硬。我费了好大的劲才砍下了一块，几乎把我的斧头都砍坏了。又费了不少力气，才把木块带回住所，因为这种木头实在太重了。

At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock.

在每一个这样的时刻中，西西弗离开山顶并逐渐地深入到诸神的巢穴中，他超出了自己的命运，变得比他所搬动的巨石还要坚硬。

The autumn will never be confused--a season stiff, bright, and metallic Let's enjoy it from the cool wind invited by pine trees, from earthy smells of new-mown grass.

但秋得永远不会被混淆的--这坚硬明朗的金属季。让我们从微凉的松风中去认取，让我们从新刈的草香中去认取。

When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks.

当他用自己设计的冰箱运送黄油去市场时，他发现顾客们会走过装在竞争者桶里那些迅速融化的黄油而给他比市价更高的价格买他仍然新鲜坚硬，整齐地切成一磅一块的黄油。

When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter,still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks.

当他用自己设计的冰箱运送黄油去市场时，他发现顾客们会走过装在竞争者桶里那些迅速融化的黄油而给他比市价更高的价格买他仍然新鲜坚硬，整洁地切成一磅一块的黄油。

When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks.

当他用自己设计的冰箱运送黄油去市场时，他发现顾客们会走过装在竞争者桶里那些迅速融化的黄油而给他比市价更高的价格买他仍然新鲜坚硬，整齐地切成一磅一块的黄油。

When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hardin neat, one-pound bricks.

当他用自己设计的冰箱运送黄油去市场时，他发现顾客们会走过装在竞争者桶里那些迅速融化的黄油而给他比市价更高的价格买他仍然新鲜坚硬，整齐地切成一磅一块的黄油。

When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks.

当他用自己设计的冰箱运送黄油客们会走过装在竞争者桶里那些迅速融化的黄油而给他比市价更高的价格买他仍然新鲜坚硬，整齐地切成一磅一块的黄油。

I find myself gazing at this potted Little Fairy: its light yellow fine thick tiny prickers, little, pointed and delicate, look like the hairs of an new born baby; those tiny prickers, in the form of a blowout of gases, peculiar and bizarre, with its tip end sharp and pointed, erect, tough, elegant and far from vulgar.

常常凝视着小花盆里的&小仙人&，那淡黄色又细又密的小刺儿，微小、尖细，仿佛初生婴儿的绒毛；凝视着那如井喷怒放的小刺儿，那小刺很奇特，根部微黄绒软，末梢坚硬尖锐，坚挺、冷峻、清雅、脱俗。

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。