You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.
VOA: special.2009.07.12
He wanted to go all the way to the Ganges River, but his army forced him to turn back.
他还想继续向恒河进军,但是他的军队迫使他返回波斯。
But still she contacted this person, spent time with him and later came to regret it.
但你的朋友还是联系了这个人,跟他相处了一段时间,慢慢有点后悔了。
That means you can give someone advice but you cannot force him to do something he does not want to do.
VOA: special.2009.07.12
Some laws in Exodus,the Book of the Covenant,a few things--yes, it says Moses wrote those down, but not the whole five books that tradition later will ascribe to him.
出埃及记》中的一些戒律和约书中所提及的部分,说过其中部分是摩西所写,但不是全部,后来传统上才将五经都归名于摩西。
Nothing but surrender. Lee sent a note to General Grant asking to meet with him to discuss surrender terms.
VOA: special.2009.12.24
Yeah, so let's have the guy in the beard, but let the mike get to him. Yell out your name.
请那位留胡子的同学说一下,把麦克风给他,大声说出你的名字
Mother set off with some of the children to look for Bill, but they could find no sign of him.
VOA: special.2009.11.28
The thing that we have seen him doing is charging more, but I guess we've got to allow that.
而我们看到的是报纸涨价,但是我想必接受这些
But an explosion in space cost him the chance to reach the moon -- and nearly cost the crew their lives.
VOA: special.2010.04.28
Now not only does Phoebus Apollo make a sudden appearance, but he seems actually to interrupt the speaker of the poem in order to correct him.
不仅是他的登场让人措手不及,他似乎也打断了诗歌创作者的叙述,以此来对他进行纠正。
His name was never in the papers. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.
VOA: special.2009.11.29
But there is a second kind of development, and this gets to that second childhood he invokes that happens to him when he goes to Chicago.
但事情有变,在理查的第二个童年,在去芝加哥的路上,他渴望得到童年。
But later he chose surgery, because it lets him have more time to decide how to help his patients.
VOA: special.2009.06.02
One by one he subdued his father's trees By riding them down over and over again Until he took the stiffness out of them - And not one but hung limp, not one was left for him to conquer.
他一株一株地征服他父亲的树,一次又一次地把它们骑在胯下,直到把树的倔强劲儿完全制服:,一株又一株都垂头丧气地低下来。
It was his personal opinion. But he did not believe that the Constitution gave him the power to free all the slaves.
VOA: special.2009.10.08
But it would still be wrong to coerce him.
但强迫他仍然是不对的。
He's not breathing and we're trying to pump him but he's not -- " "OK,OK.How old is he?"
VOA: special.2009.06.27
We overlook, we conveniently overlook a number of facts about him, his hostility to democracy, we'll see that in the Republic but we've seen it already to some degree in the Apology.
我们忽略了,很轻易就忽略掉许多关于他的事实,他对民主的敌视,将在《理想国》中详读,但我们已能在《苏格拉底自辩篇》中,看出端倪。
But almost everyone tried to help him when they found out that he was riding around the world.
VOA: special.2009.01.14
But if that broke, if that wasn't available to him, he could turn to his short sword, which was a thrusting sword, not like the Roman short sword which was double edged and slashing.
但是如果矛断了,他就不能使用矛了,那么他就得使用短剑了,这种短剑也是用来刺的,不像罗马士兵的双刃剑那样用砍的
But no one had done it. Post believed he would need someone to help him in the effort.
VOA: special.2009.03.18
And he did. But the important thing is that they had to have a translator for him in the 1840s.
他也是这样讲的,关键是,在1840年代还得给他找个翻译
Ben shouted again, but this time the hunter did not stop and Ben started to move toward him.
VOA: special.2010.03.20
Now I have not only these great stories but this very important memory of what that community meant to him at that time.
我不仅仅收获了这些美妙的故事,还收获了重要的记忆,知道了在那时,集体于他意味着什么。
But this does not stop him from working. He says that he is leaving a gift to the city with his art.
VOA: special.2009.04.08
He was not blind, he was not deaf, he was not retarded, but something else happened to him.
他并没有失明,没有失聪,也没有变成弱智,但在他身上却发生了一些其它变化
But in Rome, German swimmer Paul Biedermann said the growing attention to the issue made him mad.
VOA: special.2009.08.01
She didn't know why but she listened to him after all-- he was Gandhi.
她不明白为什么但还是听了他的话-,因为他是甘地。
And he ended with the position that the only way to put pressure on spending was by cutting taxes I never heard him use the phrase " but he subscribed to the starve-the-beast thesis.
到最后,他倒过来了,说,要想给政府施压,来削减财政支出,减税是必由之路,他倒是没有明确说,但依我看,他用的这招叫“把帽子扔过墙去。
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