碰

It was a game of chance...

这是个游戏碰运气的游戏

Would any of you gents care to join us in a little game of chance?

你们有哪位绅士愿意参加我们靠碰运气取胜的小游戏吗？

Which originated in the consideration of games of chance, should have become the most important object of human knowledge.

值得注意的是，这门起源於靠碰运气取胜的游戏的科学，竟然成了人类知识最重要的一部分。

Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance .

全神贯注于对快乐的追求，特别是碰运气的赌博。

It is remarkable that science, which originated in the consideration of games of chance, should have become the most important object of human knowledge.

值得注意的是，这门起源于靠碰运气取胜的游戏的科学，竟然成了人类知识最重要的一部分。

The man who gambles upon the exchanges is in the condition of the man who gambles at the gaming table.

在交易所碰运气的人就如在游戏桌上赌博的人一样。

You' ll go to gaol if you touch the money.

如果你碰这钱，你就会去坐牢。

Gelignite is dangerous stuff to handle.

葛里炸药是不可随便触碰的危险材料。

It's all well and good us playing in that way, but there are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face to get someone sent off.

这对我们来说很好，但这在世界杯的赛场上是个缺陷，那里有应该受到处罚的球员也有那些被轻轻碰了下就捂着脸摔倒而令别人下场的球员。

He mentioned Amanda Evert as if he'd spoken to her recently –a ghoulish thing to say.

他提及阿曼达？埃弗特时就好像最近刚和她碰过面一般——真是见鬼了。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。