This is Tin Can Town, described by the mayor as a "temporary relocation area", but by its residents as a concentration camp.
这是罐头城，市长称其为“临时搬迁区”，但其居民称其为集中营。
Life is like a fable. It is not measured by its length, but by its content.
生活象一则寓言。它并不是由它的长短来衡量，而是由它的内容来衡量。
A good English-Chinese dictionary is judged not by its thickness but by its quality.
一本好的英汉字典不是由其厚薄来评定的，而是由其质量来评定的。
Broadly speaking, 3g is defined not by the underlying technology, but by its speed: up to 2 Mbps.
笼统地说，3g不是根据相关的科技来定义的，而是根据速度。
But by its 50th birthday IBM was one of America’s leading firms, earning profits of $254m on revenues of $2.2 billion and employing 116, 000 people.
但是当它迎来50岁周年的时候，已经是美国最领先的公司之一，收入为22亿美元，盈利2.54亿美元，旗下有116000名员工。
Its success will be measured not merely by the company's profitability, but by its continuing contribution to the world's safety, health, and quality of life.
公司的成功不仅仅以公司的获利来衡量，而更是以为全人类安全、健康和生活质量做出的贡献来衡量。
Global modernity as a contemporary condition is marked not by the disintegration of modernity, but by its reconfiguration around a global center, albeit of necessity an absent center.
全球化的现代性，作为当代的条件，不是以现代性的瓦解为标志，而是以其围绕一个全球性中心的重构为标志，尽管必然是一个缺席的中心。
Short segments of the road had been observed by earlier explorers, Bown said, but they failed to realize its significance or follow up on their observations.
鲍恩说，早期的探险者已经观测过这条路的一小段，但他们没有意识到它的重要性，也没有继续进行观测。
This all seems random, but it's by design, part of what the $6.1 billion U.S. egg industry bets will be its next big thing: climate-friendly eggs.
这一切似乎散漫无序，但却是有意为之，其背后反映了61亿美元规模的美国蛋品行业所押注的下一个行业风口：气候友好型鸡蛋。
You can tell the age of a tree by counting its rings, but these records of trees' life really say a lot more.
你可以通过数年轮来判断树木的年龄，但是作为树木生命的记载，年轮能说明的东西远不止于此。
The country is still hopeful that it will meet its emissions goals, like reducing emissions by 40% by 2020, but the acceptance of electric cars in the country has not occurred as fast as expected.
该国仍希望实现其排放目标，比如到2020年减排40%，但该国对电动汽车的接受没有预期中的那么快。
He recognised efforts made by McDonald's, including placing litter bins and increasing litter patrols, but its litter remained "all too prevalent".
他认可麦当劳所做的努力，包括放置垃圾箱和增加垃圾巡逻，但麦当劳的垃圾仍然“过于常见”。
We were frightened of the attic but also fascinated by its smells and sounds.
我们对阁楼感到恐惧，但也对它的气味和声音着迷。
A company's performance can be improved in some other way than by altering its pay system may be empirically correct but contrary to the consultants' interests.
一个公司的绩效可以通过其他方式得到改善，而不是通过改变可能是经验上正确的但与顾问利益相反的薪酬体系。
The network has shrunk by roughly a third since its postwar heyday, but more trains now trundle up and down the country than ever before.
自战后全盛时期以来，铁路网络已经缩减了约三分之一，但现在全国上下行驶的列车比以往任何时候都多。
Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000 (7.9 percent) from its year-ago level.
非自愿兼职的员工人数仍远高于经济衰退前的人数，但较上年同期减少了64万人，下降了7.9%。
This use of dialogue underscores not only the dizzy quality of the character played by Katherine Hepburn, but also the absurdity of the film itself and thus its humor.
这种对白的使用不仅突出了凯瑟琳·赫本所扮演角色的大大咧咧的特性，也突出了电影本身的荒谬和幽默。
Mercedes is not new to making small cars, but its efforts have been crippled by productions that are sub-scale and over-engineered.
梅赛德斯在制造小型汽车方面并不是新手，但是由于产销规模小以及过度设计，开发能力受到削弱。
The British land art, typified by Long's piece, was not only more domestically scaled, but a lot quirkier than its American counterpart.
以朗的作品为代表的英国土地艺术，不仅在国内更具规模，而且比美国的同类作品更为离奇。
By selling the helium, the government can not only pay off that debt but reduce its overall debt as well.
政府通过出售氦不仅可以偿还债务，还可以减少总体债务。
But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.
但是，市场产生的利益远远超出其规模，因为它汇集了大量的财富、巨大的自我、贪婪、激情和争议，很少有其他行业能与之匹敌。
But by buying XTO, Exxon aligns its fate more closely with the price of natural gas, rather than oil.
但是，通过收购XTO，埃克森将其命运与天然气而不是石油的价格更加紧密地联系在一起。
But that stance is being tested by its ever-closer integration in the global economy.
但是随着其在全球经济中的渗透加深，这种立场正在接受着考验。
Maybe "twisted" cuts a little too close to the bone, but carrying ANYTHING by its hair just seems a little odd.
也许，(把头发)绞成辫子再剪掉有点太极端了，但是用它们来携带任何东西，看起来也有点儿奇怪。
This may prove toothless but its very creation by countries ultra-sensitive to external criticism is significant.
或许此举最终没有强制力，但对于外部批评极度敏感的国家迈出这一步有非常重要的意义。
Technology use should be driven not by its "coolness factor", but rather by business requirements and underlying enterprise architecture.
技术的使用不应由它的“酷性”而驱动，而应由业务需求和底层企业架构驱动。
Technology use should be driven not by its "coolness factor", but rather by business requirements and underlying enterprise architecture.
技术的使用不应由它的“酷性”而驱动，而应由业务需求和底层企业架构驱动。
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