那在当时似乎是个好主意,但后来却铸成大错。
It seemed like a good idea at the time , and then it all went horribly wrong.
他用一根绳索抓住了盗贼,但吃惊地发现那盗贼是个男孩。
He caught the thief with a cord but was surprised to find it was a boy.
听起来你需要一个助手,但这显然是不可能的,那如果有一个在线系统来帮助学生做他们的日程安排呢?
It sounds like you could do with an assistant but that's obviously not possible, so what about having an online system that students can use to do their scheduling?
他将是“阿拉斯泰尔”,一个魔术师的助手,仍然戴着那副眼镜(依稀可见一丝桀骜不驯),但穿着整洁的灰色西装。
He would be "Alastair", a conjuror's assistant, still with the spectacles (a solitary dash of unruliness) but in a neat grey suit.
他照做了,但很快就被抓了起来,因为那军官认为他是个可疑人物,在宫里的各个角落里鬼鬼祟祟。
He obeyed, and was promptly arrested as a suspicious character prowling within the precincts of the palace.
那并不是一个什么了不起的工作,但靠它还能勉强度日。
It isn't much of a job, but it will keep the Wolf from the door.
不错,微笑也许并不是人们对雕像的全部希望,但那却是艺术中的第一个微笑。
True, the smile may not be all that could be desried, but it is the first smile in art.
但那“另一世界”对人是完全封闭的,那灭绝人性、非人道的世界,是个乌有的天堂;而存在不会推心置腹地跟人说话,除非以人的面目出现。
But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.
如果你愿意的话,你可以将科学道理称为‘上帝’,但那绝不会是一个人形的上帝,你可以和他见面,向他提问。
If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.
雷孟达示意,那四个兄弟武士向前走,虽然他有点怕但还是决定有尊严地走。
DE Roquefort motioned. The four brothers stepped forward, and though he was frightened he decided to go with dignity.
于是,虽然人造生命表面上看是个美好的事物,但这事情并非属于那类“有多少”、“是好坏”看公告就将能知道的。
On the face of it, then, artificial life looks like a wonderful thing. Yet that is not how many will view the announcement.
所以,尽管有的员工是个不错的执行者——即使那证明了一种成功的模式——但这也不一定就意味着那个人将会是个成功的管理者。
So, the fact that an employee is a good performer, even though it demonstrates a success pattern, doesn't necessarily mean the person will be a successful manager.
这姑娘又把那字条转到一个她认识的叫作马侬的女人那里,后者已受到警察的密切注意,但还未被捕。
This woman in turn transmitted the note to another woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected by the police, though not yet arrested.
但那意味着调查的70个城市中剩下的56个,房价依然上涨。
But that means prices in the remaining 56 cities of the 70 surveyed, were higher.
过去两年的担忧惊恐之后,那或许的确是一个败兴的结局,但危机也往往是这样结束的。
After the fear and panic of the past two years, that may come almost as an anticlimax. But that is the way crises often end.
找一个对你负责的人很难,但那确实有效。
但这是一个令人值得怀疑的举动,将思考的事物区分为两个不同的概念,那当我们提及到思考事物的时候,究竟指的是什么呢。
But this is a dubious move, distinguish two different meanings of a thinking thing, what do we mean when we say that a thinking thing.
他被帕特里斯·埃弗拉侵犯,那应该是个点球,但裁判也没有予以判罚。
He was fouled by Patrice Evra and it should have been a penalty but the referee missed that as well.
当那发生的时候,你定期的与妇产科或助产师见面将会结束,但你的儿科医生的拜访将只是一个开始。
When that happens, your regular ob-gyn or midwife appointments will have ended, but your baby's doctor visits will have just begun.
所有这五个第一代苏联式的水慢化反应堆,都已超期服役或行将退役。但一个突出的现实问题,将亚美尼亚的核电站与俄罗斯的那四个区别开来。
All five of these first-generation water-moderated Soviet units are past or near their original retirement ages, but one salient fact sets Armenia's reactor apart from the four in Russia.
我的第一个建议是,如果你想赚些钱,虽然我并不鼓励,但如果你要赚钱,那从事金融并不是个坏主意。
My first advice is if you want to make money, which I don't particularly advise, but if you do it's not a bad idea to go into finance.
假如其是一个清楚的反问句则是例外,但那已经不是本案了。
Granted, there might be an exception for a clear rhetorical question, but that's not this case.
杰拉尔德身高只有五英尺多,是个矮个儿,但腰身很壮,脖子很粗,坐着时那模样叫陌生人看了还以为他是个比较高大的人。
Gerald was a small man, little more than five feet tall, but so heavy of barrel and thick of neck that his appearance, when seated, led strangers to think him a larger man.
但乐队仍在弹奏着,那两个花了一晚上弄壁画的家伙还在画着,而我和安吉尔也还在跳舞。
But the band is still playing, the two painters who have been painting a wall mural all evening are still painting, and Angel and I are still dancing.
但乐队仍在弹奏着,那两个花了一晚上弄壁画的家伙还在画着,而我和安吉尔也还在跳舞。
But the band is still playing, the two painters who have been painting a wall mural all evening are still painting, and Angel and I are still dancing.
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