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He appears to be your friend bur I doubt if he is.

他看上去象是你的朋友，但我怀疑他是否是真心的

A burglar burgle s a house by forcing a way into it and steal steal ing from it.

窃贼 burgle 的对象是'房子'，指以破门、撬锁等手段强行入户行窃。

The driver is a silent middle aged man. It seemed that he only know where we went. Never spoke to us during his driving. We felt that we were running in the wild prairie, with plain road, bushiness. But now we were expected to meet a troop of elephants. Really.

司机是个中年人，不怎么爱讲话，一路上除了睡觉就是看看风景，跟走在内蒙的大草原上完全是两种感觉，路不怎么起伏，还会有很多树，象是走在草原上的灌木丛里一样，非常希望能在这里见到一支大象队伍，呵呵。

So he cut through his neck with his claws, just like a knife through butter!

因此它用爪子划破了鹤的脖子，就象是刀划过牛油一样！

To consider the Byzantine military, cultural, and economic advances as differentiated aspects of a single phenomenon is reasonable.

考虑拜占庭的军事、文化和经济等不同因素造成的同一现象是非常合理的。

In mathematical logic in the study is the main target of all kinds of calculus.

在数理逻辑中研究的主要对象是各种演算。

The first object of the science of canon law is to fix the laws that are in force.

该教会法科学的第一个对象是固定的法律已经生效。

If we ask singly and in isolation "what is thing-in-self" or "what is phenomenon" without making any " transcendental distinction" or clarifying their canonical principle and function as pure thinking modes,we would further bog down in the "Kantian mystery".

若孤立地、单方地问"物自体是什么"或"现象是什么"而不作出"超越的区分"，不明确其作为纯思维形式的范导原理与功能，则必然加深"康德之谜"而难以自拔。

Since the object of my attention is the illustrious vernacular, which is the noblest of all, and since I have determined what are the subjects worthy of that vernacular - the three noblest subjects, as explained above - and have reserved for them the form of the canzone, as being the greatest of all forms, and since, in order to teach the use of that form more thoroughly, I have dealt above with some aspects of it, namely its style and its metre, let us now turn to the matter of construction.

由于我关注的对象是高贵的方言，是所有方言中最高贵的，而且我已经为那方言找到了与它匹配的主题——就是我们上面已经解释过的那三种最高贵的主题——为它们专门安排了歌曲这一所有形式中最好的，而且，为了更全面透彻地教授如何使用那一形式，我还在上面分析了它的某些方面的特性，即它的文体和格律，现在让我们转向结构问题。

2 A clear glass capillary tube is fixed vertically in a beaker.

例2的问题是时态不统一，一般现在时和一般过去时交替使用，给读者的感觉好象是这个实验是在过去和现在两个时空中完成的，这是不可思议的。

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。