独身

The popularity of the monasteries attracted less than devout postulants, and the aristocracy used the great houses as a repository for spinster daughters and younger sons.

受欢迎的寺庙吸引不到虔诚的postulants和贵族用伟大的房屋作为存放独身女儿和年轻的儿子。

Jason ran from the Phoenix after it docked, shouting, No one detransmute--you know how that screws up the HDTV for ten minutes, and if I miss even a single second because of one of you nitwits going and...

在它停泊之后，杰生从凤凰城跑，呼喊，没有人 detransmute--你知道如何螺丝钉在高解析度电视上面十分钟以来，而且如果我甚至因为你的其中之一错过一个独身者秒笨人去和。。。

If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.

若伴侣的交融发出悦耳的声音，那完美的和谐声冒犯你的耳朵，它们只不过委婉地责备你不该沉迷独身而推脱你应担的本分。

This kind of excursion best requires no company, I'll even be more severe, you have to be alone; because having a companion will sooner or later distract you, especially young lady friends, there aren't more dangerous or dictatorial companions than them, you must avoid them as avoiding a beautiful viper in the grass.

这样的玩顶好是不要约伴，我竟想严格的取缔，只许你独身；因为有了伴多少总得叫你分心，尤其是年轻的女伴，那是最危险最专制不过的旅伴，你应得躲避她像你躲避青草里一条美丽的花蛇！

The original style of clothespins, however, was created by a religious society called the Shakers.

然而晒衣夹最原先的设计是由一个叫作Shakers的宗教组织所创造的（编按：Shakers是十八世纪时美国基督教的支派之一，他们主张共有财产并强调独身，昔日祭神时会跳震动之舞，因此得名）。

Since the change from one to another involves rotation about the carbon-carbon bond, we describe this freedom to change by saying that there is free rotation about the carbon-carbon single bond.

自从变化以后从一对另外一包括关于碳-碳的束缚的旋转，我们描述这自由藉由说有关于碳-碳的独身者束缚的自由的旋转改变。

Single men,though they may be many times more charitable,because their means are less exhaust,yet,on the other side,they are more cruel and hardheartedgood to make severe inquisitors ,because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

那种独身的人，虽然在用起来似很慷慨，但实际上往往是心肠很硬的，因为他们不懂得对他人的爱。

Single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted(good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

那种独身的人，虽然在用起来似很慷慨，但实际上往往是心肠很硬的，因为他们不懂得对他人的爱。

Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

对家庭的责任心不仅是人类的一种约束，也是一种训练。那种独身的人，虽然在用起来似很慷慨，但实际上往往是心肠很硬的，因为他们不懂得对他人的爱。一种好的风俗，能教化出情感坚贞的男子汉，例如像优里西斯（Ulysses那样，他曾抵制美丽女神的诱惑，而保持了对妻子的忠贞。

Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

一个独身的女人常常是骄横的，因为她需要显示，她的贞节似乎是自愿保持的。如果一个女人为丈夫的聪明优秀而自豪，那么这是使她忠贞不渝的最好保证。

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