Most electronics companies have not done well this year, but ours is the exception that proves the rule.
今年多数电子公司都不景气，而我们公司却是普遍中的例外。
The first to pass is Tootles, not the least brave but the most unfortunate of all that gallant band.
第一个走过去的是嘟嘟士，他不是这队勇士中最胆小的，但却是最不幸的。
Spending 12 hours a day at a computer might be unhealthy, but for most of us – Warcraft players or not – this is how modern life works.
一天12小时地面对电脑可能不太健康，但是对于我们大多数人而言——不论是不是《魔兽世界》的玩家——现代生活就是这个样子。
Though active in commerce or the professions, most of the wealthy were not self-made but had inherited family fortunes.
尽管在商业领域或职场活跃着，大多数富人不是白手起家，而是继承了家族财富。
It's the people in the lanes who most regularly use rickshaws—not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor.
最经常使用人力车的是那些在车道上的人——不是穷人，而是比穷人高等一点的人。
Most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest.
大多数人在学校表现不佳不是因为他们缺乏能力，而是因为他们觉得学校没有挑战性，因此失去了兴趣。
Now, most diabetics take human insulin made, not made in humans, but made in micro-organisms that are growing in a manufacturing facility.
现在，大多数糖尿病患者服用的是人类制造的胰岛素，不是在人体内制造的，而是在生产设备中生长的微生物中制造的。
I'm not the most flexible person in the world, but I can guarantee my knees were up next to my ears.
我不是世界上最有柔韧性的人，但我可以保证我的膝盖能贴到耳朵。
You do not need to select each individual requirement if you want most but not all of the requirements within a folder.
如果您想要选择文件夹中的大部分但并非全部需求的话，那么您并不需要逐一选中它们。
This manual fixation—an indirect by-product of walking upright on two legs—has helped yield numbers in most cultures, but not all.
作为用两条腿直立行走的间接副产品，对手的过分关注帮助大多数文化产生了数字，但并非所有文化都是如此。
But farming will not remain viable if the farms are left unmodernized, and most of the farmers lack the financial resources modernization requires.
但是，如果农场没有实现现代化，农业将无法维持下去，而且大多数农民缺乏现代化所需的财政资源。
Most limestone and sandstone aquifers are deep and extensive but may contain groundwaters that are not being recharged.
大部分的石灰岩和砂岩的蓄水层都是深而广的，但可能含有不可再生的地下水。
Most westerners are already familiar with the soup, but not many people realize that it is a good breakfast here.
大多数西方人已经熟悉馄饨汤了，但没多少人意识到它在这里可是好吃的早餐。
Most of my experiences from my "just say yes" campaign have been positive, but not all of them.
我从“只要说是”运动中的大部分经历都是积极的，但并非所有经历都如此。
Most 11-year-olds are not encouraged to develop reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate.
大多数11岁的儿童没有被鼓励去培养阅读技能。有为数不多、但足以引起人们注意的数目的儿童是文盲。
Not only are mothers not paid but also most of their boring or difficult work is unnoticed.
母亲们不仅得不到报酬，而且所干的乏味艰辛的活儿也很少被留意。
Potato chips are an American invention, but most Chinese, for instance, do not know than Frito-Lay is an American company.
薯片是美国人的发明，但比如说大多数中国人，不知道菲多利是一家美国公司。
That may seem to be the most natural way to define death, but it's not an acceptable approach.
那似乎可能是定义死亡的最自然的方式，但它并不是一个可以接受的方法。
It follows then that today the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting.
由此可见，如今最受欢迎的课程不是文学或历史，而是会计学。
It's probably not something most graduation speakers would say, but it's the first lesson of growing up.
这可能不是大多数毕业演讲的人会说的话，但这是成长的第一课。
Abilene Christian settled on the devices after surveying students and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops, but that most of them always carried a cell phone.
阿比林·克里斯蒂安博士对学生进行了调查，发现他们不喜欢带着笔记本电脑到处走，但大多数人一直带着手机，因而决定了使用的设备。
The study's finding strongly suggests that the real reason why scientists over forty rarely produce highly creative work is not due to age but rather because most have spent too long in their fields.
这项研究的发现有力地表明，40岁以上的科学家很少能做出高度创造性的工作的真正原因不是年龄，而是因为大多数人在他们的领域花了太长时间。
Now, tests showed that there was a faster rate of forgetting among the youngest children, but most importantly it showed that the development of recall did not depend on language development.
如今，测试显示年幼孩子的遗忘速度更快，但最重要的是，测试表明记忆的发展并不依赖于语言的发展。
Arguably the most important conclusion that emerges from the data, however, is not something that we found—but what we did not.
可以说，从这些数据中得出的最重要的结论并不是我们发现了什么，而是我们没有发现什么。
Today, most graduates end up working outside academia, not only in industry but also in careers such as science policy, communications, and patent law.
今天，大多数毕业生最终都在学术界之外工作——不仅在工业领域，而且还有科学政策、通信和专利法等职业领域。
"As I see it," I explained, "not only are most TV programs badly written and produced, but viewers are also manipulated by the mass media."
“在我看来，”我解释道，“不仅大多数电视节目的编剧和制作都很糟糕，而且观众也受到大众媒体的操纵。”
Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone.
我们的文化使大多数美国人不仅认为我们的语言是通用的，而且认为我们所使用的手势是每个人都能理解的。
Bicycle use was not included in the study but Newman noted that the two most "bicycle friendly" cities considered—Amsterdam and Copenhagen—were very efficient.
这项研究不包括自行车的使用，但是Newman注意到两个“对自行车最友好”的城市——阿姆斯特丹和哥本哈根——被认为是非常有效率的。
Try to slot it in as a to-do list item and you'll manage only goal-focused reading—useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind.
试着将它当作代办事项列在任务清单里，你只能进行目标集中式阅读——有时候有用，但是并非是最令人满足的阅读方式。
Epidemic meningitis is not the biggest killer in Africa, but it is one of the most greatly fearful of all diseases.
流行性脑膜炎并非是非洲最大的杀手，但是，它是所有疾病中最令人感到恐惧的一个。
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