We envy it, some of us kill for it, we look down our noses at it, some of us won't have anything to do with it, and yet its place in the cultural consciousness is assured.
我们崇拜它,甚至有人为财死;我们鄙视它,甚至有人无财缘。但是金钱在文化意识中的地位确凿无疑。
It was his own fault, for I didn't want to kill him.
这是他自己的错,因为我没想杀他。
"I'll tell you where it is," the monster said, "but you must kill someone for me."
“我会告诉你它在哪里,”怪物说,“但你必须为我杀一个人。”
It is an effective treatment for the bacteria and does kill it off.
这是一种有效的灭菌方法,确实把细菌都杀光了。
Some people use the Internet to kill time while others use it for self-improvement.
有些人使用互联网来消磨时间,而有些人则用它来进行自我提升。
In urban plannings, it is more important to develop public parks and sports facilities than shopping centers for people to kill time.
在城市规划中,开发公园和体育设施比开发购物中心更重要,让人们可以消磨时间。
It took only three shots for navy snipers to kill the trio of pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage on a lifeboat drifting in the high sea.
海军狙击手仅用三枪就击毙了三名海盗,当时海盗挟持船长理查德·菲利普斯作为人质乘坐一艘救生艇漂浮在公海上。
In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is, under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?
换句话说,如果那些被定罪的谋杀犯是未成年人,也就是18岁以下的人,他们应该被判处死刑吗?
Blue light is bad for our eyes, as it can kill the photoreceptor cells we need for vision, according to Harvard Medical School.
哈佛医学院表示,蓝光对眼睛有害,因为蓝光会杀死我们视觉所需的感光细胞。
You are not allowed to play with fire in the forest, for it might kill plants, animals and even people.
你不允许在森林里玩火,因为火可能会杀死植物、动物甚至人类。
It can even help solve present-day problems: In 2015, scientists discovered that a 10th century English medicine for eve problems could kill a drug-resistant virus.
它甚至可以帮助解决当今的问题。2015年,科学家发现10世纪英国的一种治疗前夕问题的药物可以杀死抗药性病毒。
But they argue that it is unrealistic to expect all children to read "to Kill a Mockingbird" or "Pride and Prejudice" for fun.
但是他们认为,想让所有的孩子以阅读《杀死一只知更鸟》,或者《傲慢与偏见》作为消遣是不可能的。
But one day opponents on the brink of war might be tempted to use it to exchange information without having to kill and die for it.
但也许有一天,敌方被逼到无路可退时会忍不住用这种软件来交换信息,这样就不用以死伤为代价得到这些信息。
It won't kill you if you fail to follow the instructions for how to use a new time tracking software program at work, but you may lose out on wages or waste time redoing your time sheets later.
你不会因为没有能按照说明来使用实时跟踪软件而送命,但是之后你有可能在薪水上有所损失或者把时间浪费在重新完成考勤表上。
Mr Luhaydan was notorious for rulings such as one that said it would be legal to kill the owners of TV channels broadcasting “immorality”.
Luhaydan先生曾因一些判决声名狼藉,例如有判决说杀死播出“不道德”内容的电视频道所有人是合法的。
In other words, it is beneficial for us to not kill one another, so we see that as being immoral.
换句话说,这个观点有利于我们不去伤害其他人,所以我们认为它是不道德的。
I wrote this essay because I was tired of hearing "taste is subjective" and wanted to kill it once and for all.
写这篇文章的原因是我已经厌倦了听人说“品味是主观的”,想一次过将这种观点斩草除根。
He set out to kill it by finding "the one best way" to do any job, and a system for telling managers how to find that way for every segment of their operations.
他开始通过寻找做任何工作的“唯一最佳方法”,以及告诉管理人员如何为他们操作的每一环节找到最佳方法的系统,来消除低效。
Insects would make itimpossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our cropsand kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we getfrom insect-eating animals.
昆虫就将会使我们无法在这个世界上居住;如果我们没有受到以昆虫为食的动物的保护,昆虫就会吞嚼掉我们所有的庄稼并杀死我们饲养的禽兽。
It will be too far for me, 'murmured her cousin:' to walk four miles would kill me.
“对我来说是太远了,”他的表弟咕噜着,“要走四英里路可要把我累死了。”
What shocks people is not just the high level of crime but the wanton violence that usually accompanies it; gangs often kill people just for their mobile phones.
令人震惊的不只是居高不下的犯罪率,还有犯罪活动中肆意滥用的暴力行为。犯罪团伙可能仅仅只是为了抢夺一部手机就开枪杀人。
It doesn't make sense to kill yourself, emotionally and physically, working 40 hours per week for 40 years in a job you hate and living for the weekend.
把自己情绪上和身体上都弄得精疲力竭、一周工作40个小时、在一个你憎恨的工作上干满40年且只为周末活着,确实没有意义。
It can be a good way to kill time, especially if you stick to the relatively simple questions, but some people do it for other reasons.
这是消磨时间的好方式,特别是如果你只回答简单的问题,还有些人因为其他原因答疑解惑。
And although it is more controversial, many people believe, or at least feel, that those who kill deserve to die as retribution for their crimes.
许多人认为,或者至少感觉,那些人该死,这是他们应有的下场。在这里,我们有了分歧。
Her hair was true auburn, neither ginger nor brown, but deep and burnished copper color, and it fell to her waist in tresses that men would kill for, and indeed often had.
她的头发不是姜黄色,也不是咖啡色,是纯正的板栗色,颜色有点深,有点像铜烧红了的颜色。长长的秀发垂到腰间是男人们的杀手锏。
Her hair was true auburn, neither ginger nor brown, but deep and burnished copper color, and it fell to her waist in tresses that men would kill for, and indeed often had.
她的头发不是姜黄色,也不是咖啡色,是纯正的板栗色,颜色有点深,有点像铜烧红了的颜色。长长的秀发垂到腰间是男人们的杀手锏。
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