惹事

Before we assume that the market for human clones consists mainly of narcissists who think the world deserves more of them or neo-Nazis who dream of cloning Hitler or crackpots and mavericks and mischief-makers of all kinds, it is worth taking a tour of the marketplace.

我们总是一相情愿地假定克隆人的市场主要由那些认为世界上应该多几个自己的自大狂、梦想克隆希特勒的新纳粹或者是疯子、怪人、惹事鬼构成，但在下这个结论之前，我们很有必要先做一次克隆市场之旅。

But these friendly hostelries1 can be minefields of potential gaffes2 for the uninitiated.

但对于初来乍到的异国来说，这些友善的酒吧却犹如潜藏着有惹事危险的&地雷区&。

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。