靠不住的人

Most of these depend heavily on Russian gas and oil. These are typically costly and come from clapped-out fields along ageing pipelines through unreliable transit countries, with unwelcome political conditions attached.

这些国家中的很大一部分及其依赖于俄国燃气和石油，又昂贵又是从破旧地区沿着老化的石油管道输送而来，还要经过靠不住的传送国家并接受它们附加的恼人的政治条件。

It took infernally long to negotiate through relatives who were, further more, unreliable transmitters of harsh words, being peacemakers at heart, especially where matrimony was concerned.

戚办交涉，向来是耽误时候，而且亲戚代人传话，只能传好话，决裂的话由他们转达是靠不住的，因为大家都以和事佬自居，尤其事关婚姻。拆散人家婚姻是伤阴骘损阳寿的。

Although schoolmistress' letters are to be trusted no more or less than churchyard epitaphs; yet, as it sometimes happen that a person departs this life, who really deserving of all the praises the stone-cutter carves over his bones; who is good Christian, aparent,child,wife, orhusband.

一般说来，校长的信和墓志铭一样靠不住，不过偶然也有几个死人当得住石匠刻在他们朽骨上的好话，真是虔诚的教徒，孝顺的儿女，贤良的妻子，尽职的丈夫，他们家里的人也真是哀思绵绵地追悼他们。

We know such people are not to be relied upon.

我们知道这种人是靠不住的。

More than 2000000 Cambodian will died continuos, and my border is never end of war, my people continue died.

(84)：我觉得上面这个越南人的话还是比较可笑的，当时的红色高棉的实力和越南应该是差之甚远，认为柬埔寨会给越南造成多大麻烦的观点靠不住

Although schoolmistresses' letters are to be trusted no more or less than churchyard epitaphs; yet, as it sometimes happens that a person departs this life, who is really deserving of all the praises the stone-cutter carves ever his bones; who is a good Christian, a good parent, child, wife or husband; who actually does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then, that the pupil is fully worthy of the praises bestowed by the disinterested instructor.

一般说来，校长的信和墓志铭一样地靠不住。不过偶然也有几个人当得起石匠刻在他们朽骨上的好话，真的是虔诚的教徒，慈爱的父母，孝顺的儿女，尽职的丈夫，贤良的妻子，他们家里的人也真的哀思绵绵地悼念他们。同样的，不论在男学校女学校里，偶然也会有一两个学生当得起老师们毫无私心的称赞。

Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be relied on to coincide with the hours of requirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day labourer, he was not particularly persistent when they did so coincide.

德北菲尔德是当地称为懒散骨头的那种人；有时候他倒挺有力气工作；不过这种时候是靠不住的，因为不能碰巧有工作需要他；而且，他由于不习惯做日工的正规劳动，所以每当凑巧有工作的时候，他又特别缺乏毅力。

In Chungking, some people think that Chiang Kai-shek is unreliable and deceitful and that negotiations with him can lead nowhere

在重庆，有些人认为，蒋介石是靠不住的，是骗人的，要同他谈判出什么结果是不可能的。

Eastwards of Palestine was precarious, and the Persian Empire too big to pick a fight with – unless one took all one's legions to the Euphrates and Oxus, like Alexander. The Romans were smarter than that.

巴勒斯坦以东的形势靠不住，而波斯帝国太过庞大，不适合对它发动战争，除非像亚历山大那样，把手下所有的军团统统派到幼发拉底河和阿姆河流域，但聪明的罗马人不至于那么做。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷