尽管复合维生素的益处还远未得到证实,但你花几美元在复合维生素上可能是一项不错的投资。
Although proof of the benefits of multivitamins is still far from certain, the few dollars you spend on them is probably a good investment.
好在她只是打掉了我的眼镜,虽然眼镜没有碎,但已落到了离我几英尺远的厨房地板上。
In fact she knocked my glasses flying and they fell, though unbroken, several feet away from me on the kitchen floor.
自行车车道离机动车道仅有几英尺,机动车规定速度必须保持在每小时30英里,这是在西雅图干道上的速度限制,但实际上许多车辆都是以每小时40英里的速度行驶的。
A few feet from the cycling lane traffic moves at speeds of between 30 miles per hour, the speed limit for arterials in Seattle, and 40 miles per hour, the speed at which many cars actually travel.
但即使是几毫秒的时间,我也希望节省出来,这样可以用来改进性能。
I want to even save even the few milliseconds it USES for performance reasons.
虽然避雷器能保护电子设备免受持续几毫秒的雷击,但保护器本身在每次雷击后都会有损耗。
While surge protectors shield electronics from the jolts that last milliseconds, the protectors themselves wear out with each strike.
我的祖先和亲戚在罗塞斯和德拉姆·克利夫附近住了多年,但再往北走几英里,我却成了陌生人,什么也发现不了。
My forebears and relations have lived near Rosses and Drumcliff these many years. A few miles northward I am wholly a stranger, and can find nothing.
我能在哥伦比亚大学开几堂讲座,而且继续在音乐学校工作;但作为一个学者,我是一个沮丧的失败者。
I was able to pick up a few courses at Columbia as a lecturer and kept my job at the music conservatory, but as an academic, I am a dismal failure.
她走完从爱敦荒原上的高地和低地中间穿过的路程,这段距离实际上只不过几英里远,但比她所期望的要难走得多。
The journey over the intervening uplands and lowlands of Egdon, when she reached them, was a more troublesome walk than she had anticipated, the distance being actually but a few miles.
在欧洲尚且还可看到几宗私人交易,但所设计的这些交易对投资者具有很大的吸引力,并可以作为欧洲央行贴现窗口的抵押物。
Europe has seen a few private deals, but these were structured to be highly attractive to investors and acceptable as collateral at the European Central Bank's discount window.
但如果你不愿意等待完整的支持云计算的操作系统发布出来的话,现在已经有了几款可供下载。
But if you don't want to wait for a finished, supported cloud-centric OS there are several you can download today.
到现在为止漏油的危害还在有限的范围内——在路易斯安那州海岸的沼泽处,你可以看到漏油已经存在于海岸线几英里处,但并不深入。
So far the damage has been limited to the coastline—in the marshes of southeastern Louisiana, you can see the oil has usually soaked in a few ft. from the water's edge, but no deeper.
但更多的是有些时候,许多人聚集在同一个地方,几小撮人可以各自谈论各自的话题。
At other times it's more that many people are gathered in the same area, but it's okay if little side conversations break off.
他自豪地说:“我见过美国制造的几款奥巴马面具,但都不如我们的。”
"I've seen a couple of Obama faces made in the United States, but ours is the best," he boasted.
泳池的特殊设计让水体看起来如同延伸至视野的边际,但实际上,泳池的边缘被设计成在水平面之下的几厘米处,溢出的水会流到下方的一个集水池中,再被泵回泳池内。
Infinity pools are designed to make it seem as though the water extends to the horizon. In reality, the edge of the pool is usually about an inch below the water level.
尽管你也许并不像我这样喜欢半死不活的东西,但你或许会同意这一点:我们中绝大多数人每天都被这些缄默不语、缺乏主见、蠢不拉几,有时候甚至邪恶危险、残酷无情的活物围绕着。
While you may not share my love for the semi-dead, you might agree with this: most of us are surrounded by these mute, will-less, dumb, sometimes evil and dangerous brutes everyday.
但复苏的利益似乎全被资本方占有,工人几无所获。
But the benefits of recovery seem to have been distributed almost entirely to the owners of capital rather than workers.
啤酒屋规模巨大,但还是挤满顾客,人们在工作之余来喝上几杯,享受夕阳的余晖。
Despite its huge size, it was still heaving with customers enjoying a few after-work steins and basking in the late sunshine. Germany shares the same beer-drinking culture as Britain.
我随意打开几扇门中的一扇,想走进去找自己要吃的东西,但里面却是一个放扫帚的储物柜。
Picking one door at random out of several, I walked into a broom cupboard.
这样一来,即便供应商在一家商场中每年为几英尺货柜支付几乎五万美元,但多数消费者仍然不能找到他们想要找的东西。
So, even though some suppliers could be paying around $50, 000 per store a year for a few feet of shelf space, many customers still can’t find what they are looking for.
虽然2010年参议院关于气候立法的工作几无进展,但塞拉俱乐部还是骄傲地对外宣称,这些数据表明“煤的时代已过去”。
Although 2010 saw the collapse of climate legislation in the Senate, the Sierra Club is trumpeting such statistics as a sign that "coal is a fuel of the past."
全世界只记录了少数几宗甲型H1N1流感对达菲耐药的病例。但达尼尔教授表示,实际的耐药病例可能更多,因为这种情况很难被检测到。
Only a handful of cases of swine flu resistant to Tamiflu have been recorded around the world, but Professor Dunnill said the true number could be much higher because it is hard to detect.
但SiriusXM并不仅仅是另一家由于身陷信贷危机而几无可能对其大额债务延期的公司,他面临着甚至更大的隐忧。
But Sirius XM is not just another firm caught out by the near-impossibility of rolling over big debts in the midst of the credit crunch: it faces even bigger worries.
德黑兰7月19日向索拉纳提交了一个文件,据信这份文件提出要举行几轮部长级的会谈,但回避在停止浓缩铀活动的问题上作出任何承诺。
Tehran submitted a document to Solana July 19 that is understood to have proposed several rounds of ministerial level negotiations while avoiding any promise to halt enrichment.
据Penguin, 2007《睡眠的神秘性、问题及对策》一文记录,像锯木一样巨大的鼾声能够惊醒打鼾者自己,但几钟后又再度入眠。所以他们次日可能不记得自己夜里惊醒过。
That's why they may not be able to recall the sleep disturbance when they wake up the following morning, according to "Sleep: The Mysteries, The Problems, and The Solutions" (Penguin, 2007)
2000年3 月,由闪电引起的失火持续了不到十分钟,但极大地破坏了制造硅片所需的几无尘埃的环境6爱立信难以找到替代货源,之后报称其手机部门当年亏损超过20亿美元。
The fire, in March 2000, started by a bolt of lightning, lasted less than 10 minutes, but it caused havoc to the super-clean environment that chipmaking requires.
管这种屏幕离你的视网膜之有几毫米远,但只要焦点选择正确,你仍旧可以看到清晰的图片。
This screen is a few millimeters away from your retina, but as long as the focus is right, you can still see a clear picture.
也许你曾经听说过你只有短短的几秒钟就能留下第一印象,但事实上是,你的大脑已经在遇见他们后的几毫秒内就决定了(以此去评判)一个人的印象。
You may have heard that you only have a few seconds to make a first impression, but the truth is, your brain has made up its mind (so to speak) about a person within milliseconds of meeting them.
当然,从经济上说这不是对每个人都可行,但每月放弃几顿晚饭或放弃一套新装备,就能划去清单上的诸多项目中的一项,这也许是值得的。
Now, of course this isn't financially feasible for everyone, but giving up a few dinners out each month or passing up a new outfit might be worth checking one of these items off your list.
根据这些最初印象得出的结论,不管人们对于卡特尔的天气以及卡塔尔缺乏足球文化有多么无聊的几歪,但这就是主要问题的所在。
A conclusion to be drawn from these initial impressions is that, no matter how bored people are of Qatar's weather and lack of football culture, these remain major issues.
根据这些最初印象得出的结论,不管人们对于卡特尔的天气以及卡塔尔缺乏足球文化有多么无聊的几歪,但这就是主要问题的所在。
A conclusion to be drawn from these initial impressions is that, no matter how bored people are of Qatar's weather and lack of football culture, these remain major issues.
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