It may sound absurd but don't forget—the university actually offers free self-defence classes.
这听起来可能很荒谬，但别忘了——实际上，这所大学会提供免费的自卫课程。
The champions of free-market capitalism promised their way of life would bring us freedom, but it wasn't freedom at all.
自由市场资本主义的拥护者们承诺，他们的生活方式将给我们带来自由——但这根本就不是自由。
There have been times when bikes have been stolen, but most people follow the rules, because they think it is not wise to steal the bike that's already free.
自行车会被偷，但大多数人都遵守规则，因为他们认为偷已经免费的自行车是不明智的。
Often it is not markets that are lacking, but free markets.
通常这不是缺少市场而是缺少自由的市场。
But in free societies, anything-however outrageous it seems at first-becomes respectable after a while.
但是在自由社会里，任何事物——不论它事先看似多么粗暴——之后都会变得可敬。
Sunshine is free, but converting it into electricity is not.
阳光固然免费，将它转换成电能的过程却不然。
All that glitters is not gold, but it must have free electrons.
并非所有发光的都是金子，但是要发光必须有自由电子。
But it was free and I was bound — there was no way of meeting.
可它是自由的，我是受束缚的- - -我们不可能相会。
Worst of all, bonuses are being paid in part from subsidies: this is not a free market, but a perversion of it.
最糟糕的是，一部分奖金来源于补助金：这不是一个自由的市场，恰恰相反，这是个反常的市场。
I seek not to pin it down but to free it by acknowledging that high performance is not as much about achieving a certain state as it is a journey toward something better.
我不求限制它，而是释放对它的束缚，承认它无关于达到某个特定状态，而是一段通往更好的事物的旅程。
Time sounds free, but to most of us, it is more valuable than money.
时间看起来是免费的，但是对我们大多数人来说，时间比金钱更珍贵。
Free may be the best price, but it can't be the only one.
免费可能是最好的定价，但不能只是唯一的定价。
Asynchronous techniques can offer significant improvements in an application's overall throughput, but it isn't free.
异步技术能使得应用程序的总吞吐量得到显著提升，但这并不是无偿的。
There might be lots of free memory, but if it is in small slices interspersed with live objects then no individual piece might be large enough to satisfy a particular allocation.
尽管可能有大量闲置内存，但如果它们只是一些小块，其间夹杂着活动对象，那么可能没有哪个碎块大到足以满足某个特定分配需求。
This software might be open source and use the open source development model, but it won't be free software since it won't respect the freedom of the users that actually run it.
软件可能使用了开源的开发方法因而是开源的，但它不是自由软件因为它不尊重实际使用它的用户的自由。
It was a frightful hole, but she felt free.
这是个丑陋不堪的破窑，但她感到自己自由了。
Wind power may be free, goes an industry adage, but it is far from cheap.
正如这个行业的谚语所说，风可以是免费的，又是非常昂贵的。
"Cheap" or "inexpensive" may generate a wave of interest, but "free" will usually do it much faster.
便宜“或者”不贵“也许会让人产生兴趣，但是”免费“通常来得更快。”
Too many people equate the free market with big business doing whatever it wants, but that is not the free market.
太多人把自由市场和垄断企业等同起来，认为自由市场就是垄断企业可以为所欲为。
That is a staggering outlay, but it would free up American natural gas, which now generates 22% of the country’s electricity, to be used for motor vehicles.
这是一项巨大的支出，但它将会节省用来生产占国家电力22%的天然气，从而将之用于天然气汽车。
It costs ten bucks. But you get it free.
十块钱一次，不过你是免费的。
It isn't free, unfortunately, but at just 81 cents it might as well be. You can get your copy of Gmail Label Notifier from the Market.
但不幸的是，它不是免费的，但是还好只要81美分你就能从电子市场得到你的GmailLabelNotifier。
It's normally $40, but today you can snag it for free.
一般情况下，它卖40美元，但是今天你可以免费抢到它！
Knowing why an ogre is an ogre may not change her, but it will free you to think more creatively about your options for dealing with her.
虽然了解是什么原因造就了老板这样一只“怪物”并不能使他/她有所改变，但却能让你在与老板打交道时拥有更多创新性的选择。
This article lays out an approach that won't turn your inherited sites into design winners, but it will free you up to work on design winners.
本文展示了一种方法，它不会让您继承的站点变为设计冠军，但它允许您利用设计冠军。
A narrative might be long or short, highly structured or free-form, but it always provides a level of understanding that has been missing in traditional development practices.
书中的叙述或长或短、或者高度组织或者处于自由形态，但是总会提供传统开发实践中遗漏的一定层次的理解。
A narrative might be long or short, highly structured or free-form, but it always provides a level of understanding that has been missing in traditional development practices.
书中的叙述或长或短、或者高度组织或者处于自由形态，但是总会提供传统开发实践中遗漏的一定层次的理解。
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