It all seems so simple: Hit the "place order" button online and get a head of lettuce, a dozen eggs, or a gallon of milk delivered to your doorstep within 24 hours.
一切似乎如此简单：在网上点击“提交订单”的按钮，一棵莴笋、一打鸡蛋或是一加仑牛奶就会在24小时内送货上门了。
Some cultures are too adept at lining up: a citizen of the former Soviet Union would join a queue just so he could get to the head of that queue and see what everyone was queuing for.
有些文化太善于排队了：前苏联的一个公民会加入队列，只是为了他能排在队伍的前头，看看每个人是为了什么而排队。
If needed do some fake letter head, get a fax number in the same town / phone exchange, and pretty soon you could be the head of the smallest branch office of that corporation.
如有必要，还可以伪造一些假信头，弄一个相同号段的传真号码。很快你就会成为该公司最小部门的头头了。
Mike Dunn, head of home entertainment at Fox, sums up the strategy: "If you buy a Blu-ray disc you get a BMW."
福克斯家庭娱乐的主管麦克·邓恩，总结了策略：“如果你购买了蓝光光盘，得到是宝马。”
Reading 'Guts' takes a full head of steam. You don't get many moments to look up from the page.
读《肠子》的时候我热得头上直冒气儿，看着稿子也不太敢抬头。
No one likes jet lag. We get off a flight feeling wrinkled and exhausted and then head into a day full of meetings or jump full swing into a vacation.
没有人喜欢倒时差的感觉，我们不得不在刚下飞机的慵懒中一头扎进一整天的会议中，或者在疲倦中跳入一个如火如荼的假期。
There are a ton of little things you can do in the morning before you head out the door or before you have to get lunch out for the little ones.
每天上午你都会有很多小事情要做，出门或者午饭之前，完成了这些，你就可以放心的去完成接下来的许许多多其他的小事情了。
To get a sense of just how long, he says, imagine a giant with her head in Baltimore and her toe off the coast of South Africa.
为了正确了解到底有多久，他说，想像一位巨人，她的头在巴尔的摩，她的脚趾头在南非海岸。
One recent graduate says that in order to get work in a local school, she would have to bribe the head teacher with several years' worth of salary.
一个刚毕业的毕业生说为了能在当地的学校找到工作，她不得不用相当于几年薪水的金钱来贿赂校长。
He looked like a walking laundry basket, but the head nurse recognized him as a child and bellowed, "Get that kid out of here now!" No children are allowed.
他看起来就像个步行洗衣篮，但是护士长仍然认出他是个孩子，大声叫道：让那个孩子离开这里，这不允许孩子来。
An inbox is only useful as a place to collect everything that’s important, to get it out of your head so that you can do something with it.
一个收集器只是一个收集任何重要事情的有用地方，让你清空脑袋以至于你可以真正处理事情 。
However, I know of a couple of testers who love the head smacking animations so much that they let themselves get caught every time.
然而，我知道有一对夫妇就是通过这种方式来证明他们对彼此的爱，并且每一次都乐在其中。
You don’t need to join a Zendo or get a mat or learn any lotus positions, but the simplest form of meditation can really help you to be present and to get out of the worrying part of your head.
你不需要进入沉思室，或是找来一块毯子做起瑜伽，又或者是学习任何关于莲花座的姿势，但是最简单的冥想确实能够帮助你享受当下，让你从头脑中的各种烦恼中解脱出来。
In short, get out of your own head and make sure others are having a good time.
简言之，不要呆在自己的小天地里，而是要确保大家都度过一段美好的时光。
The bill for the meal is less than $10 a head, a reasonable amount that includes a delivery charge of just $4. Add another $10, and you get your own personal waiter.
一顿饭每人还不到10美元，这项合理的帐目中包括仅仅只收4美元的送货上门的费用，再加10美金，您将拥有您自己的私人服务员。
A quarter of us now always negotiate to get better deals before we head off for some fun in the sun and a mere 11 percent accept the first price that we are quoted for a getaway.
一份声明称：“如今，超过四分之一的英国人总是先议价以享受更优惠的价格，然后才出门享受阳光假期；仅有11%的人接受度假产品的首次报价。”
The animal, with a great effort, had managed to get to its knees; and even in its last degrading agony, it showed the traces of a noble beauty in head and neck.
这头牲口费了很大的劲，终于跪起来了；即使在垂死挣扎之中，它的头和脖子却还能隐隐略略显示出一种高贵的美。
The sleek head of a seal bobbed to the surface to get a better look at us.
一头海豹不时从水中冒出光滑的头来，想把我们看得更清楚。
He looks like a walking laundry basket, but the head nurse recognizes him as a child and bellows, "Get that kid out of here now!"
他看起来挺像会走的洗衣篮，但还是被护士长给看出来了，护士长大叫，“把那个小孩领出去！”
The idea of multiple dispatch takes a little while to get your head around, even — or especially — if you are well-versed in object-oriented programming.
您花一点时间就可以理解多分派的思想了，如果您精通面向对象编程，那就更不在话下了。
A quarter of us now negotiate to get better deals before we head off for some fun in the sun and a mere 11 per cent accept the first price that we are quoted for a getaway.
超过四分之一的英国人总是先议价以享受更优惠的价格，然后才出门享受阳光假期；仅有11%的人接受度假产品的首次报价。
The first time you get a bit of surprise, maybe concern, a dash of fear, but then you put your head back and wait for the baby to try again.
第一次小孩儿可能有点儿吃惊，或许担心，有点儿恐惧，然后你再拉开距离等着小孩儿再来一次。
I could not wait to return to Canada, and was grateful to head north to Dawson to get a view of the goldfields of today.
我急不可耐地想回到加拿大去，并且很乐意来到北方的道森一窥金矿今日的面貌。
Measure the dimensions of your flash gun’s head and mould the base to fit – you may need to make a few cuts and bends in the opaque plastic to get the right size.
量一下你闪光器头部的尺寸，把剪下来的底儿修理一下，可能要做适当的弯曲，以使它们匹配。
Tshabalala finally sent over a dangerous cross from the left, and though Mphela looked well placed to meet it he failed to get his head on the ball in front of goal and inside the six-yard box.
查巴拉拉终于从左侧送出一记颇有威胁的传中，尽管姆菲拉位置极佳，但他却未能在球门前的六码区顶到皮球。
Instead, I fainted and hit my head on the sideboard, my last thought before passing out being that maybe if I hit myself hard enough I would get a couple of days in bed. A while off school.
我想要对他们都表示感谢，但我却昏倒了，头撞在了食具柜上，在我即将昏迷的那一瞬，我最后的念头是，如果撞得足够厉害，或许可以卧床休息一两天，那样可以有几天不用去学校，并能使别人对我稍加观注。
Instead, I fainted and hit my head on the sideboard, my last thought before passing out being that maybe if I hit myself hard enough I would get a couple of days in bed. A while off school.
我想要对他们都表示感谢，但我却昏倒了，头撞在了食具柜上，在我即将昏迷的那一瞬，我最后的念头是，如果撞得足够厉害，或许可以卧床休息一两天，那样可以有几天不用去学校，并能使别人对我稍加观注。
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