打退堂鼓

I never shied from a challenge and I'm not sure I could have even if I wanted to.

我从没在挑战面前退缩过，我也知道，即使打退堂鼓，也不一定管用。

It's the second time James straddle d. Maybe he'll back out

这是詹姆斯第二次不表态了，也许他要打退堂鼓。

She felt that she must not yield, she must go on leading her straitened

她觉得不能打退堂鼓，必须继续过那贫困而单调的生活，这是她犯

Meet a difficulty to always think a way to overcome, not back down.

遇到困难总是想办法去克服，而不是打退堂鼓。

When you're crabby, when all you can think about are other things that need to be done, when you feel that you're just not "in the mood" to create, when your inner critic tries to dissuade you from even trying, do it anyway.

当你不尽如人意的时候，当你所考虑到的只是必须要做的事时，当你觉得你没心思去创造时，当你内心在给你打退堂鼓，让你试都不愿试时，无论怎样请开始。

Some of what we eat on a daily basis excretes back out via our pores.

有的每天吃什么，我们就通过我们的孔蜜打退堂鼓。

When I'm having trouble with a story and think about giving up, or when I start to feel sorry for myself and think things should be easier for me, I rool a piece of paper into that cranky old machine and type, word by painful word, just the way my mother did.

23，每当我写文章遇到困难想打退堂鼓时，或是自叹不走运时，我就往那台破旧的打字机里卷进一张纸，像妈妈当年一样，一个字一个字吃力地打着。

You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there skulking.

你们只要能找到那东西，就能像国王那样大富大贵，你们明明知道那东西就在这里，却站在那里打退堂鼓。

Are you, in other words, thinking of withdrawing?

你有没有，或者这样说，想过要打退堂鼓？

Don't be put off by the word "squat": Amsterdam's squat restaurants — volunteer-run kitchens in formerly abandoned buildings — offer a cheap way to break bread with the city's creative underclass.

别因为&路边摊&这个字眼而打退堂鼓：阿姆斯特丹的路边餐馆—位於些原先废弃的建筑物中非专业人士自己经营的厨房—提供一种体验这城市里有创意的下流社会饮食的经济方式。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。