I protect this white band with my thumb like a wound.
我用拇指压住这道白色的带痕，就像对伤口一样小心翼翼。
I wish I had a green thumb like Mrs. Lee — look at the beautiful roses in her yard.
这位太太说：“我真希望我能像李太太那样会种花，瞧她院子里的玫瑰花多好看呐！”
I wish I had a green thumb like Mrs. Lee — look at the beautiful roses in her yard.
我希望我能想李太太一样会种花——看她花园里的玫瑰多漂亮。
Rules of thumb like 'don't waste' as well as our obsession with collecting tokens (money) work against our impulse to spend.
单凭经验的方法像“不要浪费”与来自收集钱币的困惑针对我们的浪费的冲动做斗争。
"The muscles manipulate the shaft of the motor like a finger and thumb would hold a pencil," says Dr Anderson.
安德森说：“这些肌肉操纵起电机的传动轴来就像我们用食指和拇指拿铅笔那样。”
Most of the time, the two tectonic plates are stuck together, and the North American plate is squeezed, much like a playing card held between the thumb and forefinger.
大部分时间，这两个地址板块卡在一起，北美板块被挤压，很像一个扑克牌夹在大拇指和食指之间。
As a rule of thumb, you should rename your items, i you like to continue synchronize with this server again later.
按照经验来说，如果你希望以后还要和这个服务端进行同步的话，你应该更改条目的名字。
If you need to loose some weight (like I do) just pick the bento box, using this rule of thumb: 1 cubic milliliter equals 1 calorie.
饭盒有大有小，如果你需要像我一样减肥，建议你记住一点：1立方毫米等于1卡路里。
If you have a subject with long and thin fingers a pose like the one above will allow you to use the thumb or index finger closer to the camera lens.
如果你的模特手指细长，你也可以像上图一样，让拇指或者食指最靠近镜头。
A chubby youngster has become an Internet phenomenon because his head looks like a thumb, UK media reported recently.
英国媒体近日报道，一个长得胖嘟嘟的年轻男子因脑袋酷似大拇指，在网上意外蹿红。
Camel Hill looks to my eye like a fist, closed except for a thumb pointing to the sky, while Elephant Trunk Hill looks like a simple arch.
在我看来，骆驼山就像一只四指朝天的拳头，而象鼻山看起来像是一座简陋的拱桥。
A rule of thumb if you like. A way of making a decision.
拇指原则，一种做决定的方式。
Lying in bed, Nur's paralysis crushes him like a giant thumb, "meaty and human, grotesque with a brittle purple nail", pinning him down.
躺在床上，努尔的瘫痪象巨人的大拇指般压着他，这根巨人的大拇指“长了很多肉、有人的灵性、怪诞得长着紫色的脆指甲”，束缚了他的行动。
According to DSL Linux's Web site, the rule of thumb is to use this image when your host system was manufactured recently, like within the last five to six years.
根据DSLLinux的Web站点上的说法，大家的经验是如果主机系统是最近制造的(例如5、6年之内)，那么就可以使用这个映像文件。
From real-world use cases like the ones discussed in this article, I have devised the following "rules of thumb" for coding transactional atomic and non-atomic Web applications in Spring Web flow.
从真实世界用例中(比如本文介绍的用例)，对于在SpringWeb Flow中编码事务性原子和非原子web应用程序，我总结出了以下“规则”。
When you slide the screen up to reveal the thumb keyboard, there's no spring-assisted snap; it drags like a plow through soil.
在向上滑动显示屏以露出拇指键盘时，没有发出弹簧助力的喀嚓声；拉动的动作就像是在犁地。
Wind it like a watch with a key that's stored underneath the barrel, and when it's 'fully loaded' use your thumb to pull back the safety lever. Then squeeze the trigger.
用放置在枪管底端的转柄给它像手表一样上发条，当发条“全部上满”之后，用你的大拇指向后拉动枪栓，然后扣动扳机。
'The safety instruction book is like this,' he adds, holding his thumb and forefinger an inch apart.
他用拇指和食指比划出一英寸的厚度说，“安全指导手册有这么厚。”
I would like to describe several important rules of thumb that will help you to distinguish yourself from your modeling peers.
我很愿意描述几个重要的经验法则，这些法则将使您比其他建模同仁做得更好。
For me, she stuck out like a sore thumb.
对我来说，她钉在那里就像一个剧痛的手指一样难受。
Most disturbing are the creature's PAWS, which are like leathery black hands... almost human in shape, with a thumb for gripping.
最令人不安的是这种生物的爪子，粗糙的黑色利爪竟然和人的手掌一般大小，非常适合攀爬和抓握。
As a branding rule of thumb, two unconnected nouns, such as “skin” and “fruit”, are entirely unmemorable unless they combine into something that makes sense, like “fruit salad”.
按照命名的不二法则，两个毫不相干的名词，如“皮肤”和“水果”组合在一起，不会给人留下任何印象。只有组合成像“水果沙拉”这样有意义的词，人们才有反应。
What is your individual trait that makes you stick out like a sore thumb in these situations?
可是你的哪些个性特征让你在这些场合里成了出头鸟？
That simple rule of thumb will help you ensure your queries behave like you expect.
这一简单的法则可以保证查询得到预期的结果。
Here's a decent rule of thumb: High-tech products like electronics usually aren't so bad, while products like leather and glass tend to be associated with a lot more pollution.
在此提供一个不错的经验之谈：高科技产品诸如电子之类的都还不错，而皮革和玻璃制品则会制造大量的污染。
The rule of thumb in matters like these is that a people's expectations rise in proportion to a country's successes.
这类问题的基本法则是人们的期望值与国家的成功成正比。
The rule of thumb is that you choose between 1.5 to 2 times the amount of RAM as the swap space, and you put this partition in a place that is quick to reach, like at the beginning or end of the disk.
swap分区大小的原则是根据你的内存大小而设置，一般就是内存的1.5到2倍大。而且最好把swap分区放在硬盘的最前面或者最后面以便读写。
The rule of thumb is that you choose between 1.5 to 2 times the amount of RAM as the swap space, and you put this partition in a place that is quick to reach, like at the beginning or end of the disk.
swap分区大小的原则是根据你的内存大小而设置，一般就是内存的1.5到2倍大。而且最好把swap分区放在硬盘的最前面或者最后面以便读写。
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