特纳上校即不是第一个,也不是最后一个听说独角兽踪迹的人。
Captain Turner was neither the first traveler nor the last, to be promised sight of a unicorn.
几天前我自作主张地给上校打了个电话,也去拜访了他一下。
I took the liberty of calling the Colonel a few days ago and visiting with him a little.
特纳上校即不是第一个,也不是最后一个听说独角兽的踪迹的人,只是不论他走到那里,独角兽却总在别的地方出现。
Captain Turner was neither the first traveller, nor the last, to be promised sight of a unicorn-only to discover that wherever he happened to be, it was always somewhere else.
只有少数的研发人员了解这道配方,而他们也已悉数签署了专门的保密协议以确保该配方成为山德士上校的又一独家料理。
Only a few KFC executives know the second secret recipe and they have all signed confidentiality agreements to keep the recipe as secret as the Colonel's Original Recipe.
上校:如果我一次也不跟你说:是你给我的生命带来了新的意义,那我可就是个忘恩负义的坏蛋了。
C: Well, I would be an ungrateful wretch if I didn't tell you at least once that it was you who brought some meaning back into my life.
此外,与阿萨德相比,卡扎菲上校在阿拉伯同胞中要孤立得多,也更不受待见。
Moreover, Colonel Qaddafi is far more isolated and derided by his fellow Arabs than Mr. Assad is.
就连在放弃违禁核武器项目、对1988年泛美航空公司爆炸案的受害人进行赔偿以后,卡扎菲上校也从不是美国的盟友。
Even after giving up an illicit nuclear-weapons programme and compensating victims of the Pan am bombing of 1988, Colonel Qaddafi was never America's ally.
拜访德纳尔在科摩罗海边小屋的游客可能会发现上校,七位美丽夫人为他所生的孩子们会围着他打转,他也在一棵素馨花下悠闲自得地品尝着茶点。
Visitors to his beach house in the Comoros might find him, surrounded by his children from seven different pretty women, sipping tea under a frangipani tree.
况且巴林和也门也都不可能像利比亚这样很容易被空袭控制,因为辽阔的沙漠很容易暴露陆军上校卡扎菲的先进的坦克旅。
Neither Bahrain or Yemen is susceptible to an air campaign as Libya is, with its long stretches of desert that expose Colonel Qaddafi's advancing tanks.
而且,玛姬说上个星期在福布斯特上校那里也发生了同样的事。
Then again, Marge says the same thing happened to her just last week at Colonel Fubster's.
沃利斯上校早就认识埃利奥特先生,同他妻子也很熟悉,因而对整个事情了如指掌。
Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also with his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story.
如果这座有100万人口的城市也陷落了,卡扎菲上校就可以无所顾忌地追捕那些曾挑战其统治的“鼠类”了。
If this city of 1m fell, Colonel Qaddafi would be free to hunt down the "rats" who have challenged his rule.
如果这座有100万人口的城市也陷落了,卡扎菲上校就可以无所顾忌地追捕那些曾挑战其统治的“鼠类”了。
If this city of 1m fell, Colonel Qaddafi would be free to hunt down the "rats" who have challenged his rule.
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