少数人

While Maimonides and his followers regarded philosophical speculation as the highest duty of man, and even made the immortality of the soul dependent on it; or, speaking more correctly, while immortality meant for them only the highest development of "active intellect" in man, to which only a few attained, the Cabalists taught not only that every man may expect a great deal in the future world, according to his good and pious actions, but even that he is the most important factor in nature in this world.

虽然迈蒙尼德和他的追随者视为投机哲学的最高责任人，甚至作出不朽的灵魂依赖於它，或者更准确地讲，而永生意味著不仅为他们的最高发展"积极的智慧"在人，其中只有少数几个实现， Cabalists教的不仅是每个人可以指望得到了大量的未来世界，根据他的良好的和虔诚的行动，但即使他是最重要的因素的性质在这个世界上。

Now no one tends the old Giants' enormous pachyderm herds and most of the castles have been destroyed, save for those few whose halls now ring to the raucous sounds of Ogre feasts.

如今，再没有人照管那些巨兽群，他们的城垒大部分也被毁了，只剩下极少数，如今回响着食人魔大吃大嚼的嘶声。

Even before the expenses palaver, fewer people were voting, and more of those who did were voting for smaller parties.

即使在空谈的费用问题上也很少人投票，投票的那部分人也是投给少数党派。

Here in the 1920s and '30s, a handful of polygamous families settled astride the Utah-Arizona border after the leadership of the Mormon Church became increasingly determined to shed its polygamous past and be accepted by the American mainstream. In 1935 the church gave settlement residents an ultimatum: renounce plural marriage or be excommunicated. Practically everyone refused and was cast out of the LDS.

在1929或者1930年间，少数一夫多妻的家庭在摩门教的领导之下越过犹他州和亚迪桑纳州的边境，变成了越来越能流露出一夫多妻本性的人，但同时这也被美国主流所接受，在1935年，教堂给予定居点的居民最后的通牒，声明放弃多妻的婚姻制度否则就会被逐出教会，而这几乎每个人都拒绝，并且别逐出了LDS。

In the course of their commercial dealings with the Egyptians, the Phoenicians imported the Egyptian script and molded it into an alphabet with a far smaller number of characters, all pronounceable and all consonants.

在腓尼基人与埃及人进行商业贸易期间，他们引进了埃及的文字，把它注入一种字母文字里面，拥有较少数目的字符，所有字符都可发音，全都带有子音。

Because buys mastiff the dog quality disparity to be big, breeds the young son, the sell was a problem, Liu Yan spare the time closes oneself in the room pondered, also everywhere asks mastiff the public figure to ask for advice, summarized own to raise profoundly mastiff " the first year not to be able to support, the second year could not sell out " the question essence, then will be without hesitation possesses selling out which the quality not high young mastiff, the grown-up dog could sell, should see somebody off seeing somebody off, only left behind the minority good dog.

由于购来的獒犬良莠不齐，繁育出的幼崽出售成了问题，刘艳长时间把自己关在屋子里思考，又到处找獒界人士讨教，深刻总结了自己养獒"第一年养不活，第二年卖不掉"的问题实质，然后毫不迟疑将所有质量不高的幼獒、成犬能卖的卖掉，该送人的送人，只留下少数好犬。

Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names, They are sensitive to others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness, but the power to endure, and they can take a joke.

他们之中成千上万的人一生默默无闻，少数几位名满天下。他们对人对己都很敏感，多虑却并不多事，庄敬自强却并不咄咄逼人——他们还能够自嘲。

Most persons are killed by vehicular collision in their car, however, there are still few persons intact fortunately.

1很多人被撞死在自己的车里，但也有少数幸运的人没有受伤。

Thirdly, there is a small fraction of students who learn without an aim.

第三类，没有任何学习目的的人。这类人仅仅是少数。

A few of the women were Caucasian, but most were Athapascan or other natives.

少数白人妇女，但大多数人Athapascan或其他本地人。

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。