彭斯

The best laid schemes o'mice an' men gang aft a-gley...' Since Rab Burns, the great Ayrshire bard wrote this, long ago, nothing has proved him wrong.

"再周详的方案也会出错"，很久以前，苏格兰埃尔郡的吟游诗人罗宾彭斯写道，他并没有说错。

Mr Bernstein's purpose is to show how that trait evolved and shaped the world.

威廉彭斯特恩的目的在于展示人类渴望贸易的习性是如何演变，并塑造了整个世界。

Before accepting the testimony of the hospital nurse, we should inquire very closely into her bona fides.

彭斯瑞克谨慎地说道，对我来说，我们似乎是没有经过充分的检查就接受了事实。

Spence is a year 2001 Nobel Prize co-winner in Economics for his joint contribution in discovering the Asymmetric Structure of Marketing.

教授斯彭斯是2001年诺贝尔和平奖共同得主在经济学的贡献，他发现联合不对称结构的营销。

"I'll do what I can," said Spence.

&我尽最大的努力吧，&斯彭斯说。

You can't go by me," said Spence,"I've not lived here long enough.

&别问我，&斯彭斯说，我呆在这里时间不长。

"Well," said Spence, here we are talking of old days again. All that's over.

&你看。&斯彭斯说，我们又谈起过去了，都是旧事。

"Oh, surely that's most unlikely," said Spence.

&哦，那简直不可能。&斯彭斯说。

"A nasty business," said Spence. I thought so when I heard about it.

&真歹毒，&斯彭斯说，我听说后也想过。

"Blest if I can think who it could .have been, all the same," said Spence.

&上帝保佑，我要是能想得出是谁干的就好了。无论着重点放在哪儿，&斯彭斯说。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。