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The Trojans were struck with terror when they saw the snake, portent of aegis-bearing Jove, writhing in the midst of them, and Polydamas went up to Hector and said, Hector, at our councils of war you are ever given to rebuke me, even when I speak wisely, as though it were not well, forsooth, that one of the people should cross your will either in the field or at the council board; you would have them support you always: nevertheless I will say what I think will be best; let us not now go on to fight the Danaans at their ships, for I know what will happen if this soaring eagle which skirted the left wing of our with a monstrous blood-red snake in its talons was really sent as an omen to the Trojans on their essaying to cross the trench.

一个普通之人决然不可和你对唱反调――无论是在议事中，还是在战场上――我们永远只能为你的事业增彩添光。现在，我要再次说出我以为最合用的建议：让我们停止进攻，不要在达奈人的船边苦战。我以为，继续战斗的结果将和预兆显示的一样，假如那个由鹰鸟送来的兆示――当我们准备过沟之际，出现在我们眼前――真是个含义明确的警告：苍鹰搏击长空，一掠而过，翱翔在我们的左前方，爪下掐着一条巨蛇，浑身血红，仍然活着――但它突然丢下大蛇，不及把它逮回家去，实现用蛇肉饲喂儿女的愿望。

"He's got good morals," conceded a graffiti artist called Monkey, while helping his friend scale a traffic light and drape a banner: it depicted a grim reaper clutching fistfuls of banknotes.

一个涂鸦爱好者以肯定的语气说道：&他为人正直。&说这话的时候，他正帮助他的朋友爬上一个交通指示灯，一面旗帜耷拉在一旁–上面画着一个阴森的怪物掐住一把纸币。

The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there.

已经可以感到那无情指甲的掐印。

My grip on your neck lessoned until I found my arms wrapped around your strong shoulders.

那掐住你脖子的双手最终还是送了下来，却不禁紧紧的环抱住你的双肩。

What we can control is to cultivate mediocrities to be well-educated ones,and this process needs the involement of school and college.

为什么一定要死掐住对平常人教育这点不放呢？其实US有很多天才教育的项目，那不是可以control的么？

He quenches his cigar angrily on Bloom's ear Where's that Goddamned cursed ashtray?

他气冲冲地在布卢姆的耳朵上掐灭雪茄烟。）那只该死的混帐烟灰缸哪儿去啦？

Her shapely fingernails reddened by the blood of squashed lice from the children's shirts.

由于替孩子们掐衬衫上的虱子，她那秀丽的指甲被血染红了。

You remember, one of the teachers got strangled a year or two ago.

你还记得吗，一两年前有位老师被人掐死了。

I could have strangled you if you didn't shut up!

你如果还没闭上嘴我可能就掐死你了

She was almost strangled on a piece of meat that caught in her throat.

她差点被她喉咙里面的一片肉掐死。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷