Thomas Young focused his attention on one set of hieroglyphs that he thought would probably spell out a single word: the name of a King or Queen.
托马斯·杨将注意力集中在一组象形文字上。他认为，这些象形文字可能只拼出一个单词：那就是国王或王后的名字。
Suddenly one artist raised his hand and said he would make a very nice painting of the king.
突然，一个艺术家举手说，他将为国王画一幅很好的画。
One by one, they all started to politely refuse to make a painting of the king.
一个接一个，他们都开始委婉地拒绝为国王作画。
He told all the young people in the country, "I'll give each of you a seed. Plant it and show me your flower in one year, and I'll choose a new king from you."
他对这个国家里所有的年轻人说：“我给你们每个人一粒种子，把它种下，一年后向我展示你们种的花，我会从你们当中选出一位新国王。”
When he found there was nothing in Alex's box, the king smiled and said to the others, "One year ago, I gave everyone a seed which couldn't grow. But all of you, except Alex, have brought me flowers."
当国王发现亚历克斯的盒子里空空如也的时候，他笑着对其他人说：“一年前，我给了每个人一粒不能生长的种子。但除了亚历克斯，你们所有人都给我带来了花。”
There is an Oriental story of two men: one was a king, who every night dreamt he was a beggar; the other was a beggar, who every night dreamt he was a prince and lived in a palace.
有一个东方的故事，谈到了两个人：其中一个是国王，他每晚梦见自己成为一个乞丐；另一个是乞丐，他每晚梦见自己成了一个王子，住进了王宫。
It happened one day that the son of a king, while riding in the forest, came by chance upon the dwarfs' house and asked for a night's lodging.
有天有件事情发生了，一个国王的儿子，当他骑马来到这个森林，偶尔来到矮人们的房子晚上要求投宿。
After all, already one English king has abdicated for the sake of a commoner.
毕竟，已经有一个英国国王为一平民退位。
These stories of evolution are a bit like Shakespearean dramas, where the one best able to carry out or to thwart poisonous schemes winds up becoming king.
这些进化的故事就像莎士比亚的戏剧一样，最擅长实现或者挫败阴谋的人最后会变成国王。
The Dragon King told old Chu, "One of my sons was out fooling around the other day, and was kidnaped by a bandit who was going to murder him!"
龙王对老楚说：“前些日子，我的一个儿子出去玩耍，被一个强盗绑架了，差点丢了命！”
All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
以上都是能守行伍的战士，他们都诚心来到希伯仑，要立大卫作以色列的王。以色列其馀的人也都一心要立大卫作王。
So they didn't want one king to arise, and they didn't want a small coterie of leaders to arise.
所以他们不能让一个国王崛起，不能让一个小团体壮大。
An auction of Elvis Presley memorabilia got bidders all shook up Sunday, with a clump of the late King of Rock and Roll's hair selling for 18,300 dollars and one of his shirts for 62,000 dollars.
上周日，“猫王”埃尔维斯·普雷斯利的一场纪念品拍卖会惊倒所有竞拍者，这位已故“摇滚乐之王”的一撮头发以1.83万美元的高价拍出，而他的一件衬衫则拍得6.2万美元。
A film adapted from the Stephen King novel about a father that goes mad while staying in an evil, isolated hotel for the winter, has become one of Kubrick's most well-known films.
电影改编自史蒂芬。金的小说，小说描写的是一个疯掉的父亲，他冬天喜欢呆在一个邪恶，与外界隔离的酒店里。这是库布里克又一部最有名的电影。
For corporations, there is just one message to come out of the recession about business school executive development programmes: it is a buyers' market where the customer is king.
对于公司来说，商学院高管进修课程衰退传递出的只有一个信息：现在是买方市场，顾客为王。
One of hundreds of letters that Bill Neff, a soldier stationed in Europe, sent to Maxine King from 1942 to 1944.
比尔是驻守欧洲的一名士兵。1942年至1944年间，他总共给马克·西妮写了一百多封这样的信。
A bound captive from Libya, one of Egypt's traditional enemies, forms the head of one of 130 whole or partial walking sticks and canes found in king Tut's tomb.
在图坦卡蒙的坟墓中发现了130个完整或残缺的拐杖和手杖，其中一把手杖的头部表现了一位从利比亚抓来的俘虏，利比亚是古埃及的夙敌之一。
A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming "global warming is baloney".
美国快餐业巨擘汉堡王总公司与其主要的特许经营者之间日前爆发了一场争执，原因是打出了“全球变暖是扯淡”口号的路边广告牌。
Inmates' associates pull over to the side of the road at night and just throw over a distinctive bag such as one from McDonalds, or Burger King.
囚犯的同伙夜间时将车停在路边，向里面扔一个显眼的袋子，比如说麦当劳或汉堡王的包装袋。
Obiang can travel in style between his properties on any his six private planes, one of which reportedly features a king-size bed and a bathroom with gold-plated taps.
奥比昂可随意选择他六架私人飞机中的一架来旅行，其中有一架据说有一个特大号的床还有镀金的水龙头。
The identity of King Tut's father has long been a mystery. One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity.
图坦卡蒙父亲的身份一直是个谜，最有可能的便是这位异端法老阿赫那吞，他废除了国家的诸神，开始敬奉单神。
It is there that one will find Peter King, who runs Vermont Tiny houses, a workshop on building houses of 240 square feet or less.
在那儿你能找到彼得·金，他经营着佛蒙特小房，是关于建造240平方英尺以下面积住房的小工厂。
In fact, the three justices, the three judges, who were in charge of the judicial trial of Charles I, King Charles, the one who lost his head, those three judges later found a home where?
实际上，那三个法官，主持了查理一世审判的法官，查理一世丢了头，这三个法官后来在？
The Congressman charged that the White House had become a palace. He said Van Buren slept in the same kind of bed as the one used by the French King, Louis the Fifteenth.
这位众议员指责白宫已经成了一座宫殿，他说，范布伦所睡的床就和法国国王路易十五睡的床一样。
THE decline and fall of Bear Stearns illustrates both an old truth and a new one. The old truth is that when cash is scarce, he who has deep pockets is king.
贝尔斯登的萧条和没落很好地阐明了一新一旧两条真理。
Like Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, the poor King as a younger man is forced to speak with his mouth full of marbles, and comes close to Eliza's fate of swallowing one.
像萧伯纳笔下的ElizaDoolittle一样，作为一个年轻人，可怜的国王被迫用他如同塞满大理石的嘴去演讲，然后如同Eliza的命运一般去克服它。
In less than four years, Meyer, a Mormon mother of three from Arizona, has become one of the world's bestselling authors, despite Stephen King saying she "can't write".
尽管史蒂芬·金(StephenKing)说她“不会写作”，但不到4年时间，这位亚利桑那州身为三个孩子母亲的摩门教徒就成了世界最畅销作家之一。
Only a handful of transit authorities now provide real-time bus location to the public; Seattle's King County Metro is one of them.
只有几个交通机构现在向大众提供实时巴士定位；Seattle 的KingCountyMetro就是其中之一。
Only a handful of transit authorities now provide real-time bus location to the public; Seattle's King County Metro is one of them.
只有几个交通机构现在向大众提供实时巴士定位；Seattle 的KingCountyMetro就是其中之一。
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