漂亮话

He was obliged to wait for the body of the army corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, Blucher ordered Bulow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words:"We must give air to the English army."

但是到了五点钟，布吕歇尔看见威灵顿形势危急，便命令比洛进攻，并且说了这样一句漂亮话："得给点空气给英国军队了。"

But we must put a stop to idle talk, if we are true sons of our fatherland.

如果我们是祖国的男儿，就不要净说漂亮话吧。

The conservative critique of Mr Obama is that he is Jimmy Carter redux: a woolly idealist who thinks he can sweet-talk bad guys into behaving.

对奥巴马的保守批评说他是吉米·卡特的回归：一个糊涂的理想主义者，认为能够用漂亮话让恶棍弃恶从善。

These pretty superlatives, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the taste, and create a kind of sickly delicacy that turns away from simple unadorned truth, and a deluge of false sentiments and overstretched feelings, stifling the natural emotions of the heart, render the domestic pleasures insipid, that ought to sweeten the exercise of those severe duties, which educate a rational and immortal being for a nobler field of action.

这些漂亮话言过其实，油嘴滑舌，败坏了品味，造成一种与质朴的真理相悖的病态的精致；铺天盖地的虚饰和极力夸张的情感窒息了天真的心情，使家庭的乐趣变得味同嚼蜡----而家庭的乐趣本应使人心情愉快地担负起能锻炼出充满理性力量的不朽人物的艰巨责职，使他们能在更伟大的天地里大展身手。

It isn't enough in this job to be able to toss off a few bright remarks. It calls for real thought and understanding.

干这项工作，仅仅能随便说几句漂亮话是不够的，它需要有真正的头脑和理解力。

Leaving aside rhetoric and renewables — both things which British climate discussions might be said to overemphasise — even UKIP isn't that far out of the consensus.

漂亮话和可再生能源被它晾在一边。在就气候问题展开的讨论中，英国对这两样东西的重视不可谓不小，甚至连卓而不群的英国独立党也只能随大流。

At town-hall meetings, he does not fob voters off with a single sound-bite; he lets them ask follow-up questions.

在市政厅会议上，他不是单用一句漂亮话来唬弄选民；他让它们提穷根究底的问题。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。