The British are supposed to be famous for laughing at themselves, but even their sense of humour has a limit, as the British retailer Gerald Ratner found out to his cost.
英国人本应以自嘲著称,但就连他们的幽默感也有限度,英国零售商杰拉尔德·拉特纳在付出一定的代价之后才明白了这一点。
Their excellent gas mileage and even their improved interior design notwithstanding, today's compact cars simply fail to provide the feel a traditional motorist yearns for.
尽管它们续航表现出色,甚至内部设计得到改观,但今天的紧凑型汽车根本不能提供传统汽车驾驶者所渴望的感觉。
Although she has denied any symbolic or religious intent in her works, their three-dimensional grandeur and even their titles, such as Sky Cathedral and Night Cathedral, suggest such connotations.
尽管她否认自己的作品中有任何象征意义或宗教意图,但这些作品的立体宏伟,甚至它们的名称,如天空大教堂和夜色大教堂,都暗示了这种内涵。
They have lost not only their jobs, but their homes, their self-respect and even their reason for living.
他们不仅失去了工作,还失去了家园、自尊心,甚至活下去的理由。
The twins are so alike that even their father finds it hard to tell them from each other.
这对双胞胎长得太像了,连他们的父亲都很难把他们区分开来。
Many kinds of fish can tell one from another, according to their group, their relatives, and even their own eggs.
许多种类的鱼可以根据它们的群体、它们的亲戚,甚至它们自己的卵来区分彼此。
American's houses, yards, and even their offices can seem open and inviting.
美国人的房子,院子,甚至办公室,似乎都是开放迎客的。
Theystarted pawning jewelry, even their wedding rings.
他们开始典当珠宝,甚至他们的结婚戒指。
They're just parasite hotels, even their parasites have parasites.
它们就是寄生虫的“酒店”,甚至它们的寄生虫也有寄生虫。
Mystifying financial products have tripped up even their clever inventors.
玄妙的金融产品甚至已使其中的聪明的投资者失足。
Our buildings are more modern and even their stinky tofu isn't as good as ours.
我们的建筑更为现代,甚至他们的臭豆腐也没有我们的好。
Even their genomes are about 10 percent smaller than in other, similar organisms.
它们的基因组甚至也比其他相似的生物体基因组要少10%左右。
You will need to keep in mind the company logo, or maybe even their color scheme.
你要记住这个公司的标志 ,或者甚至是他们的配色方案。
So they often end up caring for their siblings and even their own parents by themselves.
因此他们经常自己照顾兄弟姐妹甚至要照顾父母。
The server hosting the web app could know nothing of its users, not even their usernames!
管理Web应用程序的服务器可以对其用户一无所知,甚至不知道他们的用户名!
Some senior Romanian officials and politicians have lost their jobs and even their freedom.
一些罗马尼亚的高官政要被摘走了乌纱帽,甚至身陷囹圄。
The British resolved to cleave to America. Even their nuclear missiles were provided by the Americans.
英国坚定地忠于美国,甚至英国的核弹都由美国提供。
Your customers can use a stylus or even their finger with your touchscreen phone to capture a signature.
你的客户可以用指针或手指来捕获签名。
It is able to accurately map a player's body and respond to their movements and even their voice commands.
该设备能准确识别玩家的身体动作,并对他们的动作,乃至语音命令作出反应。
Manufacturers now routinely source their materials and even their processes from a global market of suppliers.
如今的生产制造商通常是从全球供应市场获取原料甚至生产程序的。
I don’t think that even their most enthusiastic fans could have predicted how fearsomely good this album would be.
即便是他们最狂热的粉丝也肯定不曾料到这张专辑会好得如此令人害怕。
They also share a common secret: The details of their meetings, even their identities, have been strictly confidential.
他们还有一个共同的秘密:会议的细节,甚至他们的身份都是严格保密的。
You're limited by their software, their operating system, their monitor size, even their right - or left-handedness.
您会受到他们的软件、操作系统、显示器大小甚至是左右手使用习惯的限制。
Even their number of teeth is mixed; a bottlenose has 88 teeth, a false killer whale has 44 teeth, and a wholphin has 66.
甚至连它们牙齿的数目都是,宽吻海豚有88颗牙齿,伪虎鲸有44颗牙齿,而鲸豚的牙齿数目是66。
They must sit all day on their bed, with rules dictating even their postures, and may not look their guards in the eye.
他们必须整天坐在床上,甚至坐姿也受到管制,而且不得直视警卫。
It tells you who is everybody's father, even their names, son of so and so is a reference their father and their ancestors.
告诉你谁是谁的父亲,甚至他们的名字,谁是谁的儿子,是可查他们的父亲及祖先的。
Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them women will forgive them everything even their gigantic intellects.
女人因为男人的缺点而爱男人;如果男人的缺点足够多,女人什么事都可以原谅他们,哪怕是他们的智力。
Even their speech seemed different. “They used words we didn’t,” Kelly recalled; “some long and fancy words, some short and pungent words.
甚至她们说的话也和当地人不一样,凯利回忆说:“她们的话也是我们不太说的,有些听起来很长,让人莫名其妙;有些话又很短促,给人感觉很冲。
Even their speech seemed different. “They used words we didn’t,” Kelly recalled; “some long and fancy words, some short and pungent words.
甚至她们说的话也和当地人不一样,凯利回忆说:“她们的话也是我们不太说的,有些听起来很长,让人莫名其妙;有些话又很短促,给人感觉很冲。
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