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Pelias was quite scared to see such a stranger because he had been warned by a prophet to be careful of a man wearing only one shoe.he was not surprised when jason told him who he was and what his business was about.the artful pelias welcomed his nephew with false pride and joy ;he promised to give up the kingdom to one who had proved himself worthy of it.and he urged the youth to bring the golden fleece back from colchis.he felt quite certain that his nephew would never come back alive from the hopeless task.pelias' prediction was quite right.jason died a poor death in the kingdom of colchis.

当珀利阿斯看到这个陌生人时，他惊恐异常，因为一位预言家提醒他提防一个只穿了一只鞋的男人。当杰森告诉他自己是谁以及自己此行的目的时，他并没有感到奇怪。狡诈的珀利阿斯带着假惺惺的自豪和喜悦迎接了这位侄子。他发誓说，他愿意放弃王位，但接替他继承王位的人必须能够用事实证明自己确配接受王冠。于是，他怂恿年轻人去科尔切斯取回金羊毛。他断定他的侄子再不会活着回到他面前，因为这根本就是个不可能完成的使命。珀利阿斯的预言千真万确。杰森悲惨地死在科尔切斯王国。

Instead of cordoning off the spill, survivors say police took bribes to allow people to go in with jerrycans.

幸存者讲道，警察并没有用警戒线将漏出的汽油隔开，而是收到了当地人的贿赂，结果允许这些人过来把溢出的汽油铲到自己的小油罐中。

The people of the nationality live a primitive life of collecting fruits. They are not used to hutting, and know very little about cultivation. They eat the roots, fruits and flowers of the wild tuber crops, and are able to catch frogs, fish and so on bared-handed. After they collect the foods, they will share them.

这些人过着原始的采集生活，他们没有狩猎的习惯，更不懂耕种，吃的食物是野薯芋的根、果和花朵；能用手熟练地捕捉青蛙、小鱼等。

A lot of people try to make spoofs of Madness, but none ever seem to have the magic touch you bring to it.

有许多人试着去做仿madness的同人（这里记者用的是一个贬义词），但没有一个能接近你的正传的水平。

They're founded by people who have primary mystical experiences or theophanies and do not interpret the content of those experiences into the terms of the religious traditions available around them.

它们的创始人是一些有过原初的神秘体验或是见神体验的人，，没有用他们周围存在的那些宗教传统的语言来解释这些体验。

They are my children's godparents, the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I've used their names for Death Eaters.

他们是我的孩子们的教父和教母。他们是我陷入困境时可以寻求帮助的人。他们是如此宽容的朋友，就连名字被我用来命名食死徒的时候也没有起诉我。

Nearly all symbols are highly stylised and can be drawn by persons almost entirely lacking in artistic skill; this allows one to draw a symbolic representation using tools as rudimentary as plain paper and pencil.

几乎所有的符号都被高度的特征化，以保证几乎没有什么审美技巧的人也能很容易的绘制；这样也是绘图者可以用象铅笔和白纸这样最基本的工具也能绘制。

The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat,which had a little kid by her, which she gave suck to, whichgrieved me heartily; for when the old one fell, the kid stood stockstill by her, till I came and took her up; and not only so, butwhen I carried the old one with me, upon my shoulders, the kidfollowed me quite to my enclosure; upon which I laid down the dam,and took the kid in my arms, and carried it over my pale, in hopesto have bred it up tame; but it would not eat; so I was forced tokill it and eat it myself.

十二月十日我本以为挖洞的工程已大功告成，可突然发生了塌方。也许我把洞挖得太大了，大量的泥土从顶上和一旁的岩壁上塌下来，落下的泥土之多，简直把我吓坏了。我这般惊恐，当然不是没有理由的。要是塌方时我正在洞内，那我肯定用不着掘墓人了。这次灾祸一发生，我又有许多工作要做了。

However, some unscrupulous people use the body parts of endangered species such as tigers and rhinoceroses to make their so-called medicine. Or they use the gall of bears kept in terrible conditions in tiny cages.

然而，有些没有道德原则的人运用一些稀有物种如虎和犀牛身体上的成份来制作他们所称的中药，还有的用熊胆作药而将熊关在条件恶劣的小笼子里。

In such cases, translation problems are not too great, even though in English there is no satisfactory equivalent for German "Gesundheit" spoken when a person sneezes.

在这种情况下，翻译的难题还不是如此明显。即便是英语中没有令人满意的词语可以对应德语中的&Gesundheit&，这个词是用来表达对刚打喷嚏的人的祝愿。

The reasons of iron ions content overproof in grade Ⅱ desalting water system,such as variation water quality,contamination of regenerant , operation adjustment of pretreatment system and switching operation of bed were discussed.

对二级脱盐水系统中铁离子含量超标的原因，如来水水质发生波动、再生剂受到污染、预处理系统操作调整、床体运行切换等进行了论述。

You were hired to drum up new business, so go and do it.

公司雇你招徕新业务，你就做你的事好了。