But Eudora Welty was once asked why Southerners can be such great writers, or such good storytellers and she was a wonderful storyteller.
但有一次她被问到,为什么南方总是出伟大的作家,或者是杰出的小说家,她自己就是个很出色的小说家
Which is sort of the question we'd immediately like to ask. Instead, I asked why did it produce the result it did. So I'm not asking myself what's wrong? Or how could I make it right?
其实这个问题我们马上就要问,我问了为什么它会返回这样的结果,因此我并没有去在意哪儿错了,或者我该怎么改正它,我在意的是它?
Franny again cleared her throat. Apparently, her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good listenership had been fully served. "Why?" she asked.
弗兰尼又清了喉咙,他的自欺式的自白得到了倾听,遇到了好听众,为什么,她问。
But when you asked them why they didn't try it the answers tended to be "I would look silly."
但当你问他们为什么不尝试时,他们的答案往往是“这样做会很傻”
Now when asked by the hardest workers why "each of the laborers received every man a penny," the householder replies, "Take that which is thine own and go thy way.
当那些最辛苦的工人问户主为什么“每个人,都得到了一便士呢“他回答,拿着你们的东西走人吧。
Or as Walker Percy, the great Southern writer, was once asked he was asked, in effect, "Why do Southerners have such long memories?
或者正如沃克·泊西,这个伟大的南方作家,曾被问到,他被问到,老实说,"为什么南方人的记忆如此刻骨铭心
It's as though he's explaining, giving an answer to a question that somebody asked, "why didn't the Spartans do better in that battle?"
修昔底德的解释,回答了许多人的疑问,"斯巴达人为什么不将剩勇追穷寇呢"
Someone asked me, "Well,why are some notes consonant and why are other notes dissonant?"
有人问我,那么为什么有些音符是和音而有些不协调呢“
Way back at the start of the semester when we asked,Why believe in souls?
学期一开始的时候我们研究过为何要相信灵魂的存在?
The department stores said no and so we asked, why would they say no?
百货公司拒绝了,于是我们问道,他们问什么要拒绝?
Subjects who were asked to do ten positive features and then later ranked the person lower and then asked, "Why did you rank the person lower?"
被要求列出十个优点的被试,降低了所爱之人的地位,接着,当其被问到,“你为何将爱人的地位降低了“的时候“
So my student called Bernard Sadow up and asked him about his invention and he said, "Yeah, I was thinking, why don't we have wheels on suitcases?
于是我的学生打电话给伯纳德?沙度,然后询问了他关于发明的事情,他说道,是啊,我当时在想,我们为什么不能在行李箱上安轮子呢?
Croesus was astonished and he asked Solon why did he select Tellus?
克罗伊斯很吃惊,他问梭仑为什么选特勒斯
Why does a trumpet--If I asked a trumpet to play this pitch, a trumpet played, and then I asked an oboe to play it, the sound would be very different.
小号为什么...,如果我用小号演奏这个音高,小号演奏后,我又让双簧管来演奏,声音会很不一样
I was taking my younger child home from a play date on Sunday and he asked me out of the blue, ?" "Why can't you marry your mother or your father?"
周日我带我的小儿子去玩,回家的路上,他突然问我,“你为什么不能和你的父母结婚“
It's in response to what seems to have been an aesthetic reaction to the poem that the printer of Paradise Lost asked Milton, went back to Milton and asked him to append a note to the book's second printing -- to append a note that explains why the poem rhymes not.
这是弥尔顿对《失乐园》的出版商的答复,出版商问弥尔顿关于此诗的美学问题,他找到弥尔顿,让他给此诗的第二次印刷附一个,注解--附个注解解释这诗为什么不押韵。
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