空头支票

Best believe somebody's payin' the pied piper.

最好相信有人会为开空头支票的人付钱。

I'm not going to accept a rubber check.

我不接受空头支票。

You gave me a rubber check.

你给我开空头支票。

I got into trouble when I paid my bills with a rubber check.

当我用空头支票付账惹上了麻烦。

In Hood River, Ore., Hal's Tire Service printed $1 bills on scraps of old tires, briefly giving the rubber check a good name.

在俄勒冈州的Hood River，豪尔轮胎服务公司(Hal's Tire Service)在废旧轮胎上印刷面额一美元的代币，暂时给了"橡胶支票"（rubber check，在英文中指"空头支票"）一个好名声。

If thousands more people are to die in the coming weeks, let those who oppose any action now, however modest its effect, then explain why they favoured a policy of doing nothing. And let them try to describe the circumstances in which the new-found responsibility to protect might actually be invoked if it is not just to join the UN's scrapheap of dashed expectations, broken promises and dismal betrayals.

如果在未来几周内，还会有几千人死亡的话，那么看那些现在反对采取行动的人（尽管他们的反对并没有多大作用）如何自圆其说；也让他们说明在何种情况之下，新制定的保护受压迫人民的责任原则才能名副其实，而不是沦为联合国那些粉碎期望、背信弃义的众多空头支票之一。

And let them try to describe the circumstances in which the new-found responsibility to protect might actually be invoke d if it is not just to join the UN's scrapheap of dashed expectations, broken promises and dismal betrayals.

并且如果他们仅仅是为了磨洋工和开空头支票而加入联合国废物堆，那么应该让他们试着去描述一下这个他们竭力捍卫的强权政府面临的环境。

To deal with those, Sonia Gandhi, Congress's leader, will reissue a lot of unkept promises when the election campaign begins: to bring everyone electricity, piped water, schools and jobs.

为此，在大选开始之际，国会领导人索尼娅·甘地再次开出了"空头支票"，诸如为所有人恢复供电，供水，恢复教育和工作等等。

When in his ten million dollar award incident is troubled by bubbling with noisely end of the year, on the net appeared quickly his evil get a picture, writing aside:"Give me please 10 million, adscititious a piece of dud cheque."

在他的千万美元年终奖事件闹得沸沸扬扬之时，网上迅速出现了他的恶搞照片，一旁写着：&请给我一千万，外加一张空头支票。&

But I think he's just dangling a carrot in front of me.

但我想他这不过是开了一张空头支票。

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。