所以,瑞士的钟表制作业对他的同轴式擒纵机构既不感兴趣也不能理解,这也是他意料之中的事,尽管他还是为此十分失望。
So it was no surprise to him, though keenly disappointing, that the Swiss watchmaking industry was neither eager to look at the co-axial escapement, nor able to understand it.
沙: 修牧师,不用劝我;我一定要把这案子闹到“星室”去;纵他他是二十个约翰孚斯塔夫爵士,他也不能欺侮到洛勃特沙娄绅士。
Shallow: sir hugh, persuade me not; I will make a star-chamber matter of it; if he were twenty sir john falstaffs he shall not abuse robert shallow, esquire.
笼罩于本周的日内瓦车展上的氛围,纵非完全积极乐观,也与去年人们所表现出来的担忧心理形成了鲜明对比。
THE mood at this week's Geneva motor show, if not exactly upbeat, was in contrast to the fear that gripped the event last year.
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