象是

A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house.

在担任传达的嬷嬷旁边，挂着一口声音非常洪亮全院都能听到的铜钟，通过各种不同的敲法，好象是种有声电报似的，来表达在物质生活中所应进行的全部活动，并且，在必要时，还可把修院里的这个或那个人找到会客室里去。

Objects in the vector are not named. Instead, they can be accessed by their position in the vector.

vector 中的对象是没有命名的，可以按 vector 中对象的位置来访问它们。

Another positive sign is the emphasis on infrastructure spending in many of the national fiscal stimulus packages.

另一个积极的现象是，许多国家的财政刺激方案都着重强调基础建设的开支。

I am confident my qualifications meet your requirements for the postdoctoral study.

我没有直接翻译，因为，中式的Cover Letter可以说不符合外国人的习惯，不知道你的对象是谁？

In postmodern parenting this act of imagination is very, very important.

后现代家长必须认识到，孩子的这种创造和想象是十分重要的。

Deixis is one of the core research areas in pragmatics.

指示现象是语用学研究的重要课题之一。

It was an old spring-wagon, with a round canvas top on it like the cover of a prairie schooner.

那是一辆老式的带弹簧的四轮马车，上面的帆布圆顶子象是拓荒者用的大篷车的顶篷。

I worked on a project where we did something similar, but Python code was embedded in XML documents, and objects that were preassigned to globals in the code's namespace represented widgets in a GUI.

我工作的一个项目也是这样，只是Python代码内嵌在XML文档中，而预设的全局对象是GUI部件。

More than one million of them die as a result of their prematurity.

然而，专家表示，许多早产现象是可以避免的。

I won 25,000 pounds on the Premium Bonds – it's like a dream come true.

我获得了政府有奖债券25，000英镑－那真象是实现了梦想一般。

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。