If he hadn't been so good at the rest of his job, I probably would have sacked him.
如果他不是在工作的其他方面做得这么好，我可能已经把他解雇了。
Would you have him a common laughing-stock, mocked and jeered at by stoats and weasels?
你愿意让他成为大家的笑柄，被白鼬和黄鼠狼嘲笑戏弄吗？
Ben Weatherstaff says the robin is so conceited he would rather have stones thrown at him than not be noticed.
本·韦瑟斯塔夫说知更鸟太自大了，宁愿别人朝他扔石头，也要引起别人的注意。
Many have been surprised at the length of time it has taken him to make up his mind.
很多人都为他用这么长的时间才下定决心感到吃惊。
It no longer confused him to have these lofty personages kiss his hand at parting.
这些高贵的人物临别时吻他的手，他也不再感到慌张了。
Many students at his university would have known his name, but they could all identify him by his signature.
他学校中的很多学生本来是知道他的名字的，但他们都只能从他的签名认出他。
At first, they kept their distance from him, but they soon found he was a kind man, and would not hurt them, but liked to have them near him.
起初，它们和他保持一定的距离，但很快它们就发现他是个善良的人，不会伤害它们，反而喜欢它们靠近他。
Those who have only one or no siblings at all will find it easier to reach him.
那些只有一个或根本没有兄弟姐妹的人会发现更容易接近他。
It would have been music to his soul to hear the whisperings: "Look at him, Jim!"
听到人们的窃窃私语，对他来说就像音乐一样美妙：“你看他，吉姆！”
We even have one snake that is about four meters long, but I keep him at home.
我们甚至有一条大约四米长的蛇，但我把它养在家里。
The children at the school nicknamed him Lucky because they feel so lucky to have him as a friend.
学校里的孩子们给他起了个外号叫“幸运”，因为他们觉得有他这样的朋友很幸运。
He was surprised at what he saw and scolded him angrily, "Lazy, I know why you're called Lazy. You're just like your name! What have you done for your house? It could fall apart at any second!"
他对所见到的一切感到惊讶，生气地骂他：“拉齐，我知道你为什么叫拉齐了。你就像你的名字一样！你为你的房子做过什么？它随时都可能散架！”
What You Can Do: If you're in a busy place, you're bound to both be distracted at one point or another — you can't have your eyes glued to him at all times.
你能做的：如果是在一个人多的场合，你极有可能因为这件或那件事而精神不集中——你没办法让你的眼睛在所有的时间永远都黏着他。
Perhaps because these people have been sitting for him for so many years and so many hours at a time, many have nodded off.
也许因为这些人多年来每次坐下来让他画都长达几个小时，很多人都打盹了。
It suited Catherine to have him there: at any rate, it made her hate her room upstairs more than ever: and she would compel me to find out business below, that she might accompany me.
有他在，凯瑟琳倒觉得挺合适：无论如何，那使她更恨她楼上的房间了，她逼着我在楼下找事作，好和我作伴。
He says a mechanic who noticed the damage told him the rubber could have burst open at high speed and caused a crash.
他说，一位看到损害之处的技师告诉他，这样的轮胎可能会在高速行驶时突然爆裂，引发事故。
Have clapped my hands at him from the door?
我曾经从门边向他频拍双手。
When he comes back, can you have him call me at (206) 5551212?
他回来后，能不能让他打(206)5551212这个号码给我？
45 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon.
祭司撒督和先知拿单在基训已经膏他作王。
I really cannot imagine what my semester at the University of Oklahoma would have been like without him.
我简直无法想象，要是我在俄克拉何马大学的那个学期没有他会是什么样。
"We have noticed", we said to him at lunch, "that you have still not yet provided the aforementioned puppy." "I'm working on it," said Daddy.
我们在午餐的时候向他说：“我们已经注意到了，你还没有把前面提到的那只小狗给我们。”老爸回答：“我正在设法给你们搞。”
If you have a contact at the company, you have mentioned him or her in the first paragraph.
如果你曾经和该公司的某人联系过，在求职信的第一段要提及。
He's not pop to the kids at the middle school who have never heard of him, right?
他对那些在中学里从未听到过他的音乐的孩子们是不流行的，对吗？
He doesn't smoke or have diabetes, though his age, 60, puts him at higher risk than a younger person.
他不抽烟也没有糖尿病，但是他已经60岁了，所以他的风险跟年轻人更高一些。
My finger, pointed at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon - thence, peradventure, to the gallows!
我的手指指着他，只消一动，就可以把他从布道坛上抛到牢狱中去——甚至还会把他抛到绞刑架上！
I want to reach out and hug him and at the same time try to shake answers out of him, answers he doesn't have.
我想要伸出手去拥抱他，但同时我也想使劲摇他，摇晃出那些他自己都不知道的答案。
Very young he looked; though his actual age was thirty-nine, one would have called him ten years younger, at least.
他看来很年轻：虽然他实际年龄是三十九岁。至少，人家会把他当作年轻十岁看。
He became an instant hero in Spain, prompting a request to have him put on display at Madrid zoo.
它瞬时成了西班牙的英雄，并使得自己被要求在马德里动物园展出。
If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been frightened.
当时那老妇人如果看见了他，她一定会被他吓坏的。
Mr Twombly, who is being given his first retrospective in 15 years, USES materials that have come to him at random-bits of wood, cardboard, bronze boxes, palm leaves and plastic flowers.
托姆·布雷先生运用那些随意选取的材料——木块、纸板、铜盒、棕榈叶和塑料花这些来创作了首次回顾他过去15年艺术历程的作品。
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