煞费苦心

As in my present Condition there were not really many Things which I wanted; so indeed I thought that the Frights I had been in about these Savage Wretches, and the Concern I had been in for my own Preservation, had taken off the Edge of my Invention for my own Conveniences; and I had dropp'd a good Design, which I had once bent my Thoughts too much upon; and that was, to try if I could not make some of my Barley into Malt, and then try to brew my self some Beer: This was really a whimsical Thought, and I reprov'd my self often for the Simplicity of it; for I presently saw there would be the want of several Things necessary to the making my Beer, that it would be impossible for me to supply; as First, Casks to preserve it in, which was a Thing, that as I have observ'd already, I cou'd never compass; no, though I spent not many Days, but Weeks, nay, Months in attempting it, but to no purpose.

就我目前的境况而言，我其实不缺多少东西。可是，我总感到，由于受到那些野蛮的食人生番的惊吓，因而时时为自己的安全而担惊受怕。以往，为使自己的生活过得舒服，我充分发挥了创造发明的才能，但现在就无法充分发挥了。我本来有一个煞费苦心的计划，想试验一下能否把大麦制成麦芽，再用麦芽来酿起酒。现在，这一计划也放弃了。当然，这实在也是一个荒唐的念头，连我自己也经常责备自己把事情想得太简单了。因为我不久就看出，许多酿造啤酒必不可少的材料我都没有，也无法自己制造。首先，没有啤酒桶。前面说过，我曾尝试做木桶，但怎么也做不好。

It is a sweeping claim, yet the evidence, here painstakingly marshalled, is hard to dispute.

诚然，这一指责打击面颇广，但这里煞费苦心罗列的证据却让人难以辩驳。

This has spawned an elaborate form of coded communication,with car owners outdoing each other to see who's the cleverest.

于是，产生了一种煞费苦心的交流方式。车主们总是互相攀比，看谁更聪明。一辆漂亮的红色敞篷车的车牌可能是6uldv8

While the disaster gradually slumbering in the womb of theoretical culture gradually begins to frighten modern man, and he anxiously ransacks the stores of his experience for means to avert the danger, though he has no great faith in these means; while he, therefore, begins to divine the consequences of his situation--great men, universally gifted, have contrived, with an incredible amount of thought, to make use of the paraphernalia of science itself, to point out the limits and the relativity of knowledge generally, and thus to deny decisively the claim of science to universal validity and universal aims.

当潜伏在理论教化核心中的祸患逐渐使现代人感到不安，当他焦急地搜索枯肠寻找避祸的方法，那怕对这些方法不甚信仰，因而开始预料到自己的结果，那时，有些博学多才的伟大人物已经煞费苦心地使用科学武器来证明一般科学的局限性和条件性，从而决然否定科学自称普遍有效性和普遍目的性之夸谈。

In most companies the yearly appraisal process involves a sticky interview between boss and subordinate followed by the painstaking drafting and redrafting of an exceedingly long form.

在大多数公司，年度评估过程都包括老板和下属之间一次别扭的谈话，然后是煞费苦心地起草、修改一份极长的表格。

We spent the first night in hammocks and the second night in a cave,he pointed out countless sites and animals, and went to great pains to make sure I had a good time.

父亲指给我看了数不清的景观和各种各样的动物，为了让我玩得开心，他煞费苦心。这一段回忆一直珍藏在我心里。

Memory of them has faded, why should their inheritors trouble to resurrect their lost claims?

发明和发现的记忆淡漠了，他们的继承者为什么还要煞费苦心地收回他们失去的首创权呢？

The need to open a ground transportation route between India and China drove much of the planning of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in India and General Joseph Stilwell in China.

在印度和中国之间开辟一条陆上运输线的需要，使印度的路易斯·蒙巴顿勋爵和中国战区的约瑟夫·史迪威将军煞费苦心地筹划了一番。

And as he lay there panting and trembling, and listened to the whistlings and the patterings outside, he knew it at last, in all its fullness, that dread thing which other little dwellers in field and hedgerow had encountered here, and known as their darkest moment—that thing which the Rat had vainly tried to shield him from—the Terror of the Wild Wood!

他只能蜷缩在被风刮到洞里的枯叶里，希望能暂时避避难、他躺在那里，大口喘气，浑身哆嗦，听着外面的哨声和脚步声，他终于恍然大悟。原来，其他的田间和篱下的小动物最害怕见到的那种可怕的东西，河鼠曾煞费苦心防止他遇上的那种可怕的东西，就是——野林的***！

And as he lay there panting and trembling, and listened to the whistlings and the patterings outside, he knew it at last, in all its fullness, that dread thing which other little dwellers in field and hedgerow had encountered here, and known as their darkest moment—that thing which the Rat had vainly tried to shield him from—the Terror of the Wild Wood!

他只能蜷缩在被风刮到洞里的枯叶里，希望能暂时避避难、他躺在那里，大口喘气，浑身哆嗦，听着外面的哨声和脚步声，他终于恍然大悟。原来，其他的田间和篱下的小动物最害怕见到的那种可怕的东西，河鼠曾煞费苦心防止他遇上的那种可怕的东西，就是——野林的恐怖！

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