He spent 20 years at LFC Financial, a commercial real estate finance company, where he made a handsome living but never could scratch a far deeper itch.
在20年里,他都在一家商业房地产金融公司LFC Financial工作。虽然,他可以过上殷实的生活,可是却无法挠到心中更深处的“痒”。
It's a great opera, one of a few great operas about married love, especially interesting because Beethoven never got married, always wanted to but never could find the right woman.
这是一部很伟大的歌剧,是少数伟大的,关于婚后爱情的歌剧之一,有趣是因为贝多芬没有结婚,他总想结婚,但没能找到合适的女人。
The government recognized there were problems in urban areas but these could never be an excuse for lawless behaviour.
政府认识到市区存在问题,但是这绝不能成为非法行为的借口。
You could never eliminate risk, but preparation and training could attenuate it.
风险不可能完全消除,但可以通过防范和培训来降低。
His parents were very angry and told him several times not to play football at home because he could break something, but he never listened.
他的父母非常生气,并多次告诉他不要在家里踢足球,因为他可能会打破东西,但他从不听。
After that NOLS course, I led several more expeditions, but I never felt that I could live up to my colleagues' expectation of a quiet, authoritative, slightly removed outdoorsman.
在NOLS课程之后,我又指导了一些考察旅行,但我从未感到我能够达到我同事所期望的安静,有威信,带一些些疏远的户外活动人。
He can do new things in our lives that we always wanted to do but never thought we could do on our own.
他更新了我们的生命,主所作的都是我们想要的,但这些凭我们自己是不可能做到的。
I said I could never give up my car, but I barely drive now and am going car-free next month.
我曾说我不可能离开小轿车,但现在几乎不开车并计划下个月不开车。
People back then imagined wireless communication (Dick Tracy, Star Trek), but they never imagined you could funnel an entire world’s worth of information through a pocket-sized device.
她那个年代的人们想象过无线通讯(比如漫画《至尊神探》和电视剧《星际旅行》中所描述的),但是他们想象不到整个世界的信息都可以被装进一个口袋大小的设备里。
"All of us can't help but feel the poignancy of what could have been achieved but never was," Brown says.
管理员Brown说“所有人都不禁为公主本可以完成但却没能完成的使命感到心痛。”但是她的成就却是非凡的。
She used to be ashamed of being the only one escorted to school by a running father, but she could never say no to him.
她曾经为此很害羞,因为她是唯一由父亲跑着送到学校来的,但是她从来没有对父亲提起过这一点。
Not only that, but these are the wines you could never buy at home, so here's your chance.
此外,你还能在那里买到在家根本买不到的葡萄酒,真是一个难得的好机会。
'I am a foreigner,' I said.Then he spoke slowly, but I could not understand him.My teacher never spoke English like that!
我是个外国人,“我说。”于是他说得慢了,可我还是听不懂。我的老师从来不那样讲英语!
He said each night he dreamt his daughter was calling "Daddy" but could never see her face.
他说他每天晚上都会梦见女儿叫着“爸爸”,但他再也见不到女儿的面了。
The chain that bound her here was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but could never be broken.
将她束缚在这里的,是源源傲进她心灵深处的铁打的锁链,永远不可能断裂了。
We had very, very different methods, but I could never comfortably feel, Oh, I have this thing sewn up.
我们的写作方法完全不同。但是,真的,有他在,我从来不会安心认为我把事情搞定了。
I'm not saying that the surly dwarf you just resurrected could be your next boss--but you never know.
当然,我并不是说刚刚被你复活的那个个不友好的矮人可能就是你的下一任老板——不过这种事情可说不准。
He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings sprouting on Cosette.
他觉得他自己只能是个在地上爬的人,至多也只能在地上走,现在却看见珂赛特要生翅膀。
Experts said that house prices could never fall nationwide. But fall they have, by 5% in the past 12 months.
虽然专家们说过不会出现全国性范围的房价下跌,但在过去12个月房价已经下跌了5%。
I answered that I just kept following the ramps but I could never find the top, which I found weird, why do you ask?
我告诉他们我一直沿着斜坡走,但却怎么也找不到顶楼,我觉得这有点诡异。我问他们为什么要问这个。
I had a 5 percent chance of surviving the tumor, and I did, but somehow I could never deal with the fact that I was going blind.
由于肿瘤,我的生存机会是5%,而我活了下来,但不知何帮,我总是不能面对这个事实——我将要失明。
You could build up an XML document in memory, and even send it to another component in your application (or to another application altogether); but you could never store that XML.
您可以在内存中创建XML文档,并且甚至可以将其发送给应用程序中的其他组件(或者其他应用程序的组件);但是却无法存储这些XML。
But Gerald had known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.
然而杰拉尔德已经懂得什么叫贫穷,因此永远学不会惬意而体面地输钱。
I knew I could never compare with Steig, but I didn't want to embarrass myself, either.
我知道我不能与威廉·斯泰格相提并论,但我不会让自己丢脸。
Remember, most great people were told they could never accomplish something, but they went ahead and did it anyway.
记住,最伟大的人总是被告知他们永远不能完成所愿,但他们全然不顾,照样努力并最终获得成功。
The women who forsakes a career to be a mother, but never gets over knowing what she could have achieved in the business world.
而辞去工作当了妈妈的妇女永远也弄不清自己在商业世界里能收获什么。
I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and he was that convict.
我从来只认得一个能替代千斤顶的人,就是那个苦役犯。
I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and he was that convict.
我从来只认得一个能替代千斤顶的人,就是那个苦役犯。
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