Nobody would break it up, because it would make an ugly path, and its unselfish magic made it useful as it stood.
没有人愿意把他凿碎，因为它太丑了，用这些石块根本铺不出一条像样的道路来，而它那个无私的魔法更是可以让人们登高远望。
As it stood up this female lioness came walking towards it and jumped on to the buffalo's back trying to pull it down.
刚一站起来雌狮就朝它走了过来并且跳到水牛的背上打算把它压倒在地。
If anything, he felt the injustice of the game as it stood, and was not cheap enough to add to it the slightest mental taunt.
在目前这场游戏中，如果他感到对他的对手有所不公的话，他还不至于卑劣到在这不公之上再加上些精神上的嘲弄。
One day this elephant came to Guilin and was mesmerized by the beautiful scenery as it stood at the bank of the Lijiang River.
一天这头大象碰巧来到桂林，觉得这儿的风景太漂亮了，就一直站在漓江边看。
"Well, you rest a little while I smoke, " he said, rising, and then he foolishly went to the forward platform of the car and left the game as it stood.
那你休息一会儿，我去抽根烟。“他说着站了起来，愚蠢地走到电车前面的平台去，对这些爱情的游戏听之任之。
Mistress Mary stood up and looked at it with an almost frightened face as it hung from her finger.
玛丽小姐站起身，几乎一脸惊恐地望着挂在自己手指上的东西。
As such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epoch stood.
因此，它需要了解每一个时代所处的经济现实和社会背景，以及所牵扯的权力关系。
As we stood there, watching, we talked about how much we loved playing in those woods together; how it gave us all a sense of belonging and a place of refuge.
我们站在那儿，注视着，一边谈起我们曾经多么喜欢在那片树林里一起玩耍，它如何给了我们所有人一种归属感和一个庇护所。
They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendour, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another.
他们三人站在亮如白昼的奇妙而肃穆的光辉里，似乎正是那光辉要揭示一切隐秘，而那白昼则要将所有相属的人结合在一起。
It fell over one side of her dress and caught the white border of a petticoat, just visible as she stood at ease.
灯光铺洒在她裙子的一边，她随意站着时，恰好能看见露出的衬裙白边。
It was his 30th birthday six months later which really got to me, as he stood there with his wife Alison while they greeted the guests.
直到六个月后，他在30岁的生日上和妻子艾莉森(Alison)站在一起招呼宾客时，我才开始有异样的感觉。
But he sensed something like it, sensed the awesome truth, and as he stood there staring at the riverbank he was seeing it for all humankind.
但他横生了一些感觉，更是对某种令人敬畏的真理有了体察，当他站在那里注视河岸时，整个人类都因此而受益。
As we stood in a chill wind on Sixth Avenue, he was obviously uncomfortable discussing it, but he is a storyteller, and he eventually launched into a narrative.
当我们站在第六大道的瑟瑟寒风中时，他谈论起这件事来明显带着不安，但他是一个讲故事的人，最终他讲得非常投入。
As she spoke she untied her little velvet bonnet and tossing it away with her long cloak stood looking at him with meditative eyes.
她一面说着，一面解开小丝绒帽的系带，把帽子连同长斗篷扔到一边。她站在那里，用沉思的目光望着他。
As I stood in front of it, two women came over to look, and helped me translate the Hindi inscription.
正当我站在它前面的时候，两位妇女也走过来看，并帮助我翻译上面的印地语。
There are other things horribly wrong with this article, but this one point stood out because, as fallacies go, it tends to propagate wide and far.
这篇文章还有另一些可怕的错误，不过就这个错误是引人注意的，因为谬论往往传播得广泛而深远。
As Spain attempts to distance itself from more troubled euro-zone countries like Portugal and Ireland, it must rein in a budget deficit that last year stood at 11.2% of GDP.
当西班牙试图与更麻烦的欧元区国家(诸如葡萄牙和爱尔兰)划清界线时，它必须控制住去年仍占GDP的11.2%预算赤字。
The us, which has the world's largest share of overall production, stood out in the analysis because it appears to have lost no production to climate change as yet.
美国占有着全球总产量的最大份额，并在这次的分析中脱颖而出，因为它并没有因为气候变化而减产。
"People don't clean it anymore," said Jiang Qing, 28, as she stood on an upper balcony in Huan Xing tulou, whose name means "embracing prosperity."
“人们不再打扫这些土楼”，28岁的江清(音译)站在环兴楼上面的阳台上说。环兴楼的“环兴”代表着“环绕着繁荣”的意思。
The advantages of SOA, such as increased flexibility, interoperability, and lower it maintenance costs, are well documented and have, so far, stood the test of time.
SOA的优点(如提高灵活性、互操作性以及降低维护成本)得到了广泛的宣传，且经受住了时间的考验。
The mighty, shimmering Ginkgo towered over the shrine steps and, as legend has it, had stood witness to history being made in Japan for over 800 years.
这棵非凡而耀眼的银杏树，高耸于神祠的台阶之上，正如传说中的一样，它已经在超过800年间见证了日本这个国家的历史。
"Make it up with him," he advised Lizzie, at parting, as they stood in front of the workingman's shack in which she lived, near Sixth and Market.
“跟他和好吧，”分手时他劝丽齐，这时他俩已来到了六号路和市场街附近她所居住的工人棚屋前。
It brought down the house: after the last point the crowd stood up to applaud both players as hard as they could.
它令全场轰动。在最后一分之后观众都起立竭尽全力地为两位选手鼓掌。
Just as she said it, she turned round, and there stood the ugly old Fox, with his big bag over his shoulder.
正说着，她一转身看到丑陋的老狐狸就站在那儿，肩上还背着个大袋子。
At least that's the way it seemed to me as I stood by her bed in an intensive-care unit at a hospital in Hilton Head, S.C., five years ago.
在我看来似乎这至少是个途径，当时是五年前，我在希尔顿头S.C.的一家医院的重病特别护理单位，站在她的床边。
Adams gripped the back of his swivel chair as he stood behind it, pressing his thumbs into the fabric.
亚当斯站在转椅背后紧握着靠背，大拇指都深深地摁进了织物里面。
As an enthusiast for American art, I have often stood in disbelief at an exhibition that seems absolutely mindblowing to me, wondering why it fails to fire the great British art lover.
作为一名美国艺术爱好者，我曾经常怀着难以置信的心情，去看对我的头脑来说绝对是有很大冲击的展览，想知道为什么它未能打动伟大的英国艺术爱好者。
I did not feel as if I were in the company of a creature of my own species: it appeared that he would not understand, though I spoke to him; so I stood off, and held my tongue, in great perplexity.
我简直不觉得我是在陪着一个跟我同类的动物：看来即使我跟他说话，他也不会懂；因此我只好非常惶惑地站开，也不吭声。
It would have been impolite not to return the gesture, so Hitoshi stood up and bowed as well.
不回礼是不礼貌的，所以仁站起来，也鞠了一躬。
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