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Other characters making regular appearances are Grampa Simpson, Homer's cranky father with his fantastically unbelievable tales of yesteryear and inclination to fall asleep at any given moment; Homer's college friend Barney Gumble, the still single, overweight, beer swilling, constantly burping barfly; Mo, the caustic, self-loathing bar-owner with the secret soft heart; Monty Burns, Homer's boss and the ancient, evil owner of the nuclear power plant; Chief Wiggum, Springfield's junk-food and donut-munching incompetent arm of the law; Apu Nahasapeemapetalon, the oft-held-up manager of the local 'Kwik-e-Mart' store; Krusty the Klown, popular with the kids but offstage a jaded, cynical hack with a long history of overindulgence, gambling and substance abuse; Kent Brockman, the spoiled, self-important TV news anchorman; Troy Mclure, the ageing Hollywood star with the faltering career and bizarre sexual fetish; Rainer Wolfcastle, the Scwarzenegger style action movie hero with the Germanic accent and ultra-right wing views; the list goes on and on

其他经常亮相的角色还有：荷马的古怪父亲——祖父辛普森，他常常会讲一些让人云里雾里、难以置信的陈年故事，而且随时随地都会睡着；至今仍然单身的荷马大学时的朋友——巴尼·甘博，他体重超常，饮酒无度，是一个经常打着饱嗝的酒鬼；酒吧老板——莫，他刻薄且自我憎恨，但却有一颗不为人所知的柔软心肠；荷马的上司——蒙提·彭斯，他是核电厂&老掉牙&的邪恶老板。斯普林菲尔德的警长——威格，他执法不力，还总是使劲儿嚼着垃圾食品和油炸面包圈；经常遭受抢劫的当地便利店的经理——那哈萨彼马彼塔隆；深受孩子们欢迎的小丑克拉斯提，但私下里他却是毫无激情、愤世嫉俗的碌碌无为之人，长期以来放纵无度、赌博并吸毒；被宠坏了的电视新闻主播——肯特·布鲁克曼，他总是那么自命不凡；风华已逝的好莱坞明星——特洛伊·麦克鲁，他的事业摇摇欲坠并有怪异的性癖好；施瓦辛格式的动作电影英雄——瑞纳·沃尔夫卡斯提，他操着一口德国口音，持极右翼观点。角色可真是数也数不清啊

L974 . Earlier he studied at the University of Kansas and the Kansas City Art Institute with Wilbur Niewald and in New York at the National Academy of Design and The Art Students League with Ivan Olinsky , Robert Brackman , Edwin Dickinson and privately with John Koch and Henry Hensche .

此前，他就读于美国肯萨斯大学和堪萨斯城艺术学院与威尔伯尼瓦尔德和在纽约举行的美国国家科学院的设计与艺术学生联盟与伊万奥林斯基，罗伯特布拉克曼，埃德温金森，并私下与约翰科赫和亨利

Lewis, under fire from angry shareholders, probably wouldn't be in this mess if he hadn't agreed to buy Merrill just after BofA's $4.2 billion purchase of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial and its $21 billion acquisition of banking chain LaSalle Bank.

美国银行CEO肯尼斯·刘易斯（Kenneth D。 Lewis）正面临愤怒股东的抨击，如果他不曾仅仅在42亿美元购买美国国家金融服务公司以及210亿美元并购LaSalle Bank的银行部门之后，匆匆决定购买美林公司，他就不会陷入目前的混乱局面。

Malcolm Brinded, Shell's executive director of exploration and production, said: This gesture also acknowledges that even though Shell had no part in the violence that took place, the plaintiffs and others have suffered.

& 麦尔肯。布林迪德，壳牌石油的开发及生产执行理事说：&这一判决也让我们承认，即使壳牌与这一暴力事件无关，但仍然让原告和其他人受到了伤害。

Was the head of the Merchants Guild sincerely willing to help? The only way out was to beg for his aid-Mrs. Lin started hiccuping again. Ai That ailment of hers!

——商会长是不是肯真心帮忙呢，只有恳求他设法——可是林大娘又在打嗝了，咳，她这病！

Some firms that offer such quizzes include Merrill Lynch, T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., Baltimore, Zurich Group Inc.'s Scudder Kemper Investments Inc. of New York, and Vanguard Group in Malvern, Pa."The typical investor may not have ever experienced a negative turn in the stock market. They need to be prepared for that," says Robert Benish, vice president of education programs for Scudder, whose questionnaire is part of a broader investing-education program.

一些公司提供此类问答游戏，包括美林证券，汤匙，罗价格联营公司，巴尔的摩，苏黎世集团奇摩 scudder 肯佩尔投资公司设在纽约的，和先锋集团在马尔文，宾州&典型的投资者未必有以往任何时候都经历了一个负面的，从而在股票市场上，他们需要有所准备，说：&罗伯特benish ，副总统的教育计划scudder ，其问卷的一个组成部分，更广泛的投资，教育计划。

Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

在我们经由肯瑟尔格林步入天堂之前。

" Old man and sea ": An old fisherman of declining years has not angled a fish for 84 days in succession, but still unwilling to give up, but full of spirit of struggling, angled a piece of big Malin's fish on the 85th day at last.

老人与海》：一位风烛残年的老渔夫一连八十四天都没有钓到一条鱼，但仍然不肯认输，而充满着奋斗的精神，终于在第八十五天钓到一条大马林鱼。

Contrary to the conventions of good story-telling I'll begin neither at the beginning nor in medias res , in the middle of the action, but at the end with my conclusions.

正如我之前说过的，奥巴马议员对生活在小镇的人的评价无法引起我的兴趣，但是我感兴趣的是这件事的本质以及奥巴玛，克林顿和麦肯尼对此事的反应。

At a ceremony held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, kenyan Ngugi wa Thiang'o, Nigerian Ben Okri and Angolan Ondjaki have been honored with the first ever African edition of Italy's Grinzane Cavour Literary Prize.

衣索比亚阿迪斯阿贝近日举行颁奖典礼。肯亚的泰安歌。奈及利亚的奥克利和安哥拉的安德嘉奇荣获第一个非洲版的义大利格林札纳卡佛文学奖

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。