第一世界

When I first saw abattoir in a book I thought it was the most beautiful word in the world.

当我第一次在书中看到"屠宰场"我认为这是世界上最美丽的词儿。

It prompted the matron to say that she would walk a little way - as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.

因此这位家庭主妇说，她要送姑娘一程--要把姑娘送到山谷斜坡上的那个地点，那个斜坡是通向外部世界的第一个制高点。

As of this moment, it looks inevitable that China will someday be the world's biggest economy, a status that will prove its adeptness at taking advantage of globalization.

从目前的情况看，中国终将成为世界第一大经济体，这个不可避免的事实证明了中国利用经济全球化的出色能力。

There will be some new development in the future, because the plastic industry is rather young: the first polymeric material is not older than hundred years, and the techniques to apply metals adhesively have developed in the late fifties of the 19th century, starting from the already known method for producing mirrors.

世界上第一种聚合材料的出现不过百年历史，塑料工业的发展方兴未艾，其未来将有更广阔的前景。从19世纪50年代末镜子的生产开始，将金属牢固地附着在聚合材料表面的技术由此发展起来。

Two controversial books about Rand the person remain a good place to start for an understanding, but not adulatory, look at her life and work: The Passion of Ayn Rand (1986) by Barbara Branden, no doubt the first-ever sympathetic biography whose subject slept with the biographer's husband, and Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand (1989) by Nathaniel Branden, the husband in question.

作为理解而非阿谀Rand这位仍保持重要地位的人，有两本具有争议的书可供阅读。一本是观察她生活和工作：《Ayn Rand的激情(1986)》 Barbara Branden著。这无疑是世界第一值得同情的传记作品了，作者的记录对象曾与作者丈夫睡觉。另一本是《审判日：我与Ayn Rand（1989）》Nathaniel Branden著，那位丈夫遭到质讯。

Since then, humans cannot find the track of Aepyornis any more. Therefore, its name for the world's biggest bird was given to ostrich because of the interference of human beings.

自此以后，人类再也没有发现过任何隆鸟的足迹，它的世界第一大鸟的称号也在人类的干涉之下让给了鸵鸟。

Before he learned this, however, he found that moving more than one feather at that speed will spin you like a rifle ball ... and Jonathan had flown the first aerobatics of any seagull on earth.

他在学到这一点之前，还发现在那样的速度下，只要转动一两根羽毛就可以像陀螺似地旋转……于是乔纳森成了世界上第一只做特技动作的海鸥。

Today this account of the amorous escapades of an aristocratic aesthete is widely regarded as the first modern or psychological novel.

如今，这部讲述了一位唯美贵族风流韵事的作品被公认为世界第一部现代或心理小说。

Its national consumption accounts for 43 per cent of the aggregate amount of the world's consumer products markets.

中国是世界上最大的发展中国家，发展是中国的第一要务。

It is the world's found the first AIDS cases.

这是世界上发现的第一个艾滋病病例。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。