"If you want to be great, wonderful, but recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
VOA: special.2009.01.16
and I think, "I'm lecturing."] "I mean, to put it crudely,'" he was saying, "the thing you could say he lacks is testicularity.
这就想,我在听教,我意思是,大概的说“,他是在说,你能说的是,他缺少证明自己。
He let you borrowed a shirt and you went to a party and you spilled wine on his shirt.
他借给你一件衬衫,你穿着去参加一个派对,结果溅了一点红酒在上面。
He says whatever you call it, jazz has played a huge role around the world in opening up musical creativity.
VOA: special.2009.04.17
Don't fail him or he will drive you out just as he drove out the Canaanites. That's a theme in Deuteronomy.
不要让他失望,否则他也会驱逐你,就如同他驱逐迦南人,这是《申命记》的一个主题。
He is so close you can see his white ivory tusks and the deep lines in his gray skin.
VOA: special.2009.08.19
Now the part of the essay just prior to this explains that he gave this little quiz that you see to some college students when he was giving a lecture.
在先前已经解释了这篇文章的一部分,他把你们所看到这个小测试在他的讲座上,给一些大学生做了。
And he's in a tuxedo and you're rushing to get to the theater and you bump into your ex."
VOA: special.2009.03.27
If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.
如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他
But I couldn't find you and I was afraid he would sell the cask of Amontillado to someone else.
VOA: special.2009.02.07
He said, "If you want to understand the South," he said, "Its taproot is back there in the Old South."
如果你想读懂南方",他说,"那你必须追溯到内战前的南方"
That means you can give someone advice but you cannot force him to do something he does not want to do.
VOA: special.2009.07.12
He saw that if you take the atomic mass of chlorine, 2 add it to the atomic mass of iodine, divide by two, you get something that is really close to the atomic mass of bromine.
他看到,如果你将氯的原子质量,加上碘的原子质量,除以,得到的数将与,溴的原子质量很接近。
Anyways,I will risk forty dollars and bet you that he can jump farther than any frog in Calaveras County."
VOA: special.2009.08.29
He's a man up in the air you know he's so detached he doesn't have his feet on the ground.
他是个生活在空中的人,十足超然,从不脚踏实地。
When a friend is troubled by a mistake he has made, you might tell him to forget about it.
VOA: special.2009.05.10
You're probably a little frustrated because maybe you sort of anticipated what he was going to say, and then you read it and you said, "Gee, he really isn't saying that.
如果你差不多猜出了他要说什么的话,你可能会有点沮丧,如果你读这篇文章,就会说:“哎呀,他不是这个意思。
"Somebody like Michael Jackson who's done so much for the world and stuff, you think almost like he's invincible."
VOA: special.2009.06.27
When he freed you, if he was a Roman citizen, you would automatically become a Roman citizen also, and your children would be Roman citizens.
只要主人是罗马公民,奴隶被释放后,也能自动成为罗马公民,生下的孩子也会是罗马公民。
He told the president, "You do not know the dishonest purposes of those men as well as I do."
VOA: special.2009.08.13
What he says you should do instead is to take the geometric average of gross returns.
他认为应该,对每年的收益求几何平均
So the controversy is how do you do that." He says the current debate has deep roots in the Constitution.
VOA: special.2011.07.15
I'll do this again, not this whole lecture but that part again-- and he did it because you can't build barricades across boulevards, wide ones.
就这个部分,我会再讲一遍的,他如此做的另一个原因是,在这种宽大的街道上是无法建造街垒的
Or,he might show you one of many guinea fowl, which he jokingly says are also called "Chobe chickens."
VOA: special.2009.08.19
So if you have a boss you might want to and he or she is going to ask you why you chose the action you did.
所以如果你为别人打工,你的老板问你为什么做出这样的选择
And he says that when you consider recovery, you cannot just think about the houses in a community.
VOA: special.2010.01.22
No problem. And all of a sudden he bit you.
很正常,但突然间它咬了你。
Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.
VOA: special.2010.01.03
You go to the dentist and he pokes you.
你去看牙医,他捅你。
Notice the freedom that he exercises in unfolding what feels like an improvisatory monologue in which he makes you race to keep up with him as he follows a semi-hidden logic that he treats as self-evident.
注意他随意地展开,一段即席的独白,让所有人都跟随他的脚步,而他跟随着自己若隐若现的但自认为显而易见的逻辑。
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