软木塞

After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.

其中包括桶匠、小鸟商人、水磨匠、报纸推销员、公证人、按摩师、葡萄酒商、疝带制造者、扫烟囱的，提炼猪油的，织波纹塔夫绸和府绸的，钉马掌的铁匠，意大利批发商，教堂装饰师，制造靴拔子的，殡仪事业经营人、绸缎商、宝石商、推销员、制造软木塞的、火灾损失估价员、开洗染行的，从事出口用装瓶业的，毛皮商、印名片的，纹章图章雕刻师、屯马场的工役、金银经纪人、板球与射箭用具商、制造粗筛子的，鸡蛋土豆经销人、经售男袜内衣和针织品商人、手套商、自来水工程承包人。

More eternal than Rome, more splendorous than Nineveh. The very navel of the world to which, like a blind and faltering idiot, one crawls back on hands and knees. And like a cork that has drifted to the dead center of the ocean, one floats here in the scum and wrack of the seas, listless, hopeless, heedless even of a passing Columbus. The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world, the charnel house to which the stinking wombs confide their bloody packages of flesh and bone.

它比罗马更久远，比尼尼微更壮观，它是世界的肚脐，人像一只漂到大洋中死一般寂静的软木塞，独自漂浮在这儿，在海洋的渣滓和船只残骸之中，无精打彩、毫无希望，连路过的哥伦布也不去注意他，文明的摇篮也就是扔全世界的腐肉的污水坑，就是尸体存放所，发臭的子宫把骨肉的血污包裹放在里面。

This cork won't come out .

这软木塞出不来。

I'll put the cork here.

我把软木塞放在这儿。

Do you have any tools to draw out the cork?

你有工具把软木塞拔开吗？

Is having a cork in there at all times really a good idea?

是一个软木塞在那里所有时代真的是一个好主意吗？

Officially your job is only to say whether the wine is corked, but do not hesitate to show your satisfaction if the sommelier has chosen well.

实际上，你的正式工作就只是评评看这酒是否有腐坏的软木塞的异味，但是如果酒类专家选得好，不要犹豫，把你的满足感显现出来

Corked wine is easier to recognise than to describe: it is woody, mouldy, stale and mouth-puckering.

酒中的软木塞味虽难以描述但很容易被辨别出来：带有木材，霉朽和陈腐的味道，且口感粗涩。

Wine that is "corked" has been contaminated by its cork stopper and takes on an unpleasant moldly aroma and flavor sometimes described as "wet newspaper."

有瓶塞味的酒，一般是被它的软木塞污染了，具有一种令人不愉快的典型的气味和滋味，类似于湿报纸的味道。

Well, let's give that to Norm Cash who won the batting title back in 1961 using a corked bat the entire season.

凯许。当年他一整个球季使用的都是软木塞棒。

No clear conclusions can be made about the predictie alidity of specific measures, they found, except for criteria for the underuse of drugs for cardioascular disease.

除了心血管病不合理用药标准外，对于特定评价方法的预测效度没有明确的结论。

The third and last is that almost all of them, being infinite in number, have been impostures, and by idle and crafty brains merely contrived and feigned after the event past.

第三、即最后一点是：几乎所有这些不胜枚举的预言都是欺人之谈，都是在事件过后由无聊而狡猾的脑筋推测与凭空捏造的。