This behaviour is not any more becoming among our politicians than it is among our voters.
这种行为在政客们与投票者们之间一样不再是十分得体的行为。
His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.
他的音乐并不是那种用来吸引古典音乐的听众而包装设计的流行音乐；他的音乐是为那些沉迷于摇滚音乐而不是古典音乐的听众而打造的高级艺术。
Nothing is more sad than taking on a job in which you have no interest, for it will not only ruin your talents but also discourage your desire to succeed in life.
没有什么比做一件你不感兴趣的事情更糟糕的了，因为它不仅会摧毁你的才能，还会挫伤你对成功人生的渴望。
It is doubtful whether an investor's sniping at management can ever be anything other than counterproductive, but in this case it is clearly not justified.
投资者对管理层的攻击是否只会适得其反是值得怀疑的，但在这种情况下，这显然是不合理的。
Therefore, DIY can bring us fun and help us save money, but it is not always as easy as it is thought to be if we bite off more than we can chew.
因此，自己动手做（DIY）可以给我们带来乐趣，帮助我们省钱，但如果我们不自量力，它并不总是像想象的那么容易。
Industrial disputes are not the only issue bothering BA. More than 20 years after privatization, it is still struggling with the legacy of state ownership.
劳资纠纷还不是困扰英航的唯一问题。在20多年的私有化改制后，英航仍然在为国有的遗留问题而挣扎抗争。
After all, it is often more acceptably in our society to be sick and to seek medical help than it is to admit that one can not cope with the stresses of life.
毕竟，在我们的社会中，生病和寻求医疗帮助往往比承认一个人不能应付生活的压力更容易被接受。
It is not unusual for the roots of some desert perennials to extend downward more than ten meters.
一些沙漠多年生植物的根向下延伸十米以上，这并不少见。
The crime rate is not high. I come from Detroit where crime is a lot higher there than it is in New York.
犯罪率不高。我来自底特律，那里犯罪率比纽约高很多。
It is considering whether to issue iPhones but not sure it's necessary, noting that more than 700 iPhones were registered on the university's network last year.
该校正在考虑是否分发iPhone，但不确定是否有必要。该校指出，去年该校网络上注册的 iPhone超过700部。
The Grand Canal is much less famous than the Great Wall, and not very many tourists visit it.
大运河没有长城出名，参观它的游客不多。
If you have not heard what a caller said, it is much more polite to say "I'm sorry. Could you say this again, please?" than to simply say "What?"
如果你还没有听到打电话的人说了什么，更礼貌的说法是：“对不起。你能再说一遍吗？”而不是简单地说：“什么？”
This is because of the following three reasons: Firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all; secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things; thirdly, most luckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief.
这是因为以下三个原因：第一，小偷只偷我的东西，而没有伤害我；其次，小偷偷走了我的一些东西，而不是我所有的东西；第三，对我来说最幸运的是，成为小偷的是那个人，不是我。
The good news is that it is more important to not get database storage design wrong than it is to get it perfectly right.
好消息是，保证数据库存储的设计不犯错误，比获得完美的数据库存储设计更重要。
It was "that which is not being"; it had no other being than that of illusion and error.
即是说“那是没有的事儿”；这其实就是幻想或错觉。
And just because a smear is not physical does not mean that it is less damaging than a punch.
诽谤不是身体上的，但这并不意味着比拳头的破坏性小。
It is not the most powerful language, but it is more powerful than Cobol or machine language.
Blub位于抽象谱系的中间，它不是最高级的语言，但也比Cobol和机器语言强。
The development and maintenance of a framework API is obviously not trivial, but it is more effective than enforcing standards across multiple applications.
框架API的开发和维护显然代价不菲，但是它比实施跨越多个应用程序规范要更有效。
With the emphasis on defence rather than attack, it is not an arms race yet.
由于上述对策研究重在防御而非攻击，因此还未形成一场军备竞赛。
It is not that Mr McCain never panders; but he does it less than anyone else who is running.
不是说麦凯恩先生从不做出什么承诺；但是他比其他的竞争者做的要少。
Sometimes that other organisation may be in another country, but more often than not it is not.
有时候这些组织可能在其他的国家，但更多时候都不是这样的。
In fact, to say that the computer is wrong is to give it more credit than it deserves; for right and wrong are not what it does; what it does is count (faster than I or anyone else could) and match.
实际上，说计算机出错了其实是赋予了它所不配拥有的可信赖度；它的行为并非正确或错无；它所做的只是计算(比任何人都快)和匹配。
But while the adverse situation was supposed to be unlikely, it is not that much worse than what has happened so far.
虽然如此糟糕的情景并不太可能会发生但是目前已经发生的情况也好不到哪里去。
If that sounds morbid, practitioners say it is not much more so than the trading of endowment policies in Britain.
该行业的一些从业者说，即使这很骇人听闻，但它们不比英国的储蓄型人寿保单交易更骇人听闻。
An XML schema is a model of a document and, as you will see in my next article, it is not dramatically more sophisticated than a good UML model.
XML模式是文档的模型，您将在下一篇文章中看到，它和良好的uml模型在复杂程度上并没有显著的区别。
That is not trivial, but Dr Grant reckons it is cheaper than other ways of boosting the birth rate.
这些价值颇高，但是格兰特先生这种方式并其它提高婴儿出生率的方式要更省钱。
Some Western hawks find it unsettling that this is even being debated within China, but it is better to talk about it than not.
一些西方鹰派人士对此表示非常不安，中国国内甚至也出现相关争论。不过，讨论以下总比缄口不言要好。
Practicing two religions is not an impossible task, but it is harder than having one religion.
实行两个信仰不是不能实现，但是比一个信仰要难。
It is not uncommon to employ more than one messaging strategy within a single enterprise.
在一个企业中同时使用不止一个的消息传递策略并不少见。
It is not uncommon to employ more than one messaging strategy within a single enterprise.
在一个企业中同时使用不止一个的消息传递策略并不少见。
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