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The significance of Grice's CP lies in that it explains how it is possible for the speaker to convey more than is literally said.

格莱斯合作原则的意义在于，它解释了说话人何以能够表达出超出字面意义的信息。

China, a country with a civilization of 5000 years, has contributed to the world its four major inventions, namely, the compass, gun-powder, paper-making and movable-type printing.

在这次翻译中，"输出"很多朋友都直接按照字面意思翻译成了output，不是不可以，但是和steve124使用的contribute比较起来，就逊色很多了。

In globe, glb, the guttural g adds to the meaning the capacity of the throat.

在地球globe一个字的glb中，g这个喉音用喉部的容量增加了字面意义。

And he likes a woman who knows her way around a haberdashery.

看字面意思就有够清楚的，在点上嘛。

The Polynesians fled in their ignorance. Darwin's half-wit sailors, the same.

guinea pig字面上就是豚鼠的意思，这是一种小型啮齿动物。

Saying you have "an axe to grind" expresses that you are angry with that person and will have a heated discussion with them.

字面意思是"让斧头磨一磨"，搜索了下含义，似乎若是have an axe to grind with sb 是如上的含义，很生气。

At nearly 11,000 feet, it literally towers above the Ionian coastline, its smoking peak a heart-stirring and sometimes heart-stopping!

在将近3300米，它从字面上塔上面爱奥尼亚海岸，其吸烟高峰，动人心弦有时心脏停车！

The discovery that every heavenly body has gravity was made by Newton.

语序我翻的有点乱每个天体都有引力这个现象是牛顿发现的（字面意思：这个发现是牛顿做出的。

Laozi literally means "Old Master" and is generally considered an honorific.

老子字面上的意思是"老夫子"，并普遍认为是一种荣誉。

Every night when the city was dimly lighted with household lights, this ancient instrument was heard being played over and over again, as if it were going to tell us all lamentable love

"跟不上生命的胡琴"若按字面直译，外文读者会不知所云，故而改为"the rhythm of the times"，意思明朗化了，却少了几分蕴藉。

The reasons of iron ions content overproof in grade Ⅱ desalting water system,such as variation water quality,contamination of regenerant , operation adjustment of pretreatment system and switching operation of bed were discussed.

对二级脱盐水系统中铁离子含量超标的原因，如来水水质发生波动、再生剂受到污染、预处理系统操作调整、床体运行切换等进行了论述。

You were hired to drum up new business, so go and do it.

公司雇你招徕新业务，你就做你的事好了。