放弃人

I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education.

这或许是为什么有那么多的人不只一次考研的原因，因为中途放弃的沉没成本实在太大。

We were there, the group of us women, on our backs, on our mats, searching for our spots, our locus, our reason, and I don't know why but I started crying. Maybe it was sheer embarrassment. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life-consuming fantasy, that someone or omething was going to do this for me - the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms. I could feel the panic coming.

我们这些女人，躺在那些蓝色的鲜亮的席子上，寻找着自己的阴蒂，那些皱折、那些纹路、那些地方，我不知道为什么，突然之间，我开始嘤嘤地哭了起来，也许是因为窘迫和尴尬，也许我知道我即将放弃那些幻想，那些强烈的来自生活真实的幻想，那是什么人什么东西曾经给过我的幻想，它支配着我的生活，指引我的方向，它给了我高潮的幻想。

However nearly all (94 percent) would not give up their friends or family in order to reach their century while a half thought scientists should keep trying to prolong people's lifespans.

然而，几乎所有的人（94％）都不愿意为了活到百岁而放弃朋友或家人，而一半的被调查者认为科学家应该努力增加人类的寿命。

It astonished me to find how much easier it is to talk than to spell with the fingers, and I discarded the manual alphabet as a medium of communication on my part; but Miss Sullivan and a few friends still use it in speaking to me, for it is more convenient and more rapid than lip reading.

当我发现，用嘴说话要比用手指说话容易得多时，真是惊讶不已。我单方面的放弃了与人用手语交谈。但莎莉文小姐和一些朋友依然用手语同我交谈，因为同唇读相比，手语字母更方便些，我也理解得更快些。

But the performer, who once won an award as the Nordic region's best Elvis lookalike, gave up shortly after beating the previous record of 25 hours, 33 minutes and 30 seconds, set by Briton Gary Jay.

但是，这位获得北欧地区最像猫王奖项的表演者，在听到他已经打破了由英国人连续高歌25小时零30分30秒的记录后。他很快放弃了先前的计划。

The Merengues have never given up on the idea of seeing the Brazilian at the Santiago Bernabeu, after chief Ramon Calderon made the promise to sign him during the campaign preceding his summer election.

皇马从没有放弃让这位巴西人在伯纳坞出现的打算，在主席卡尔德龙之前在今夏的竞选演讲中许诺之后。

Lesser mortals would give up, but not you.

没有毅力的人会放弃，但你不会。

Would the Zetas be willing to lay down their life to help others?

齐塔人愿意放弃自己的生活去帮助他人吗？

But a society consumed by consumerism, and where most urbanites grow up never learning to care for siblings or to give up any of their own needs, will become a selfish society.

但一个消费主义的社会，一个大多数城市人没有在成长期间学习照顾兄弟姐妹或放弃自己的需要的社会，将变成一个自私的社会。

Leah: I couldn't worktowards my dream in that situation, couldn't see my future, didn't know what todo, and didn't even know how to keep my life going. I had this dream, but thisdream was very far. I didn't know any Japanese, no relationships and no money,had to take sexy photo for making money. I didn't think Japanese people wouldaccept me, it felt like I dug a big hole for my dream and I buried it back upby doing this kind of stuff. It was like a whole piece of dark covered over myeyes completely, and didn't even know what to do. But my friends said to me,"You must not give up your life and your future!!"

莉亚：并不是能够编织梦想的状况，完全看不到未来，不知道该怎麽办，要怎麽活下去，连眼前该怎麽走都不知道，从儿时就有的在日本当歌手的梦想也很遥远，那时也不会说日文丶也没有关系丶也没有钱，为了生活而去拍性感写真，我也不认为日本人可以接受我，好像自己所做的事将自己唯一的梦想挖了一个大洞，用自己的手去埋了一般，毫无去处的眼前是完全一片黑暗，真的是那样的感觉，后来朋友鼓励我说：「虽然如此，你还是不能放弃自己的人生！

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失