As well as the goals and projects which we love, most of us have a few commitments that we're not so keen on.
除了我们喜欢的目标和项目，我们大多数人都有一些我们不太热衷做的事。
Oxen were not used at all but donkeys were used by a few households in the northern part of the district.
"这个地区的人们完全不会使用牛，但北部的一些住户会使用驴。
In the few cases where an Ice Age figure is depicted holding something, it is mostly, though not always, in the right hand.
在一些描绘着冰河期的人物拿着东西的例子中，虽然不是所有，但大多是用右手。
Indeed, in very few known cases, parent birds sometimes abandoned their nests from something touching their young, just because they noticed it by sight, not smell.
事实上，在一些已知的案例中，母鸟有时会因为孩子被碰触而弃巢，仅仅因为它们是通过视觉而不是嗅觉发现的。
The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.
研究人员还承认，在一些领域中，作为一个概念，种族可能在科学研究中仍然有用：作为一个政治和社会变量，而不是生物学变量。
If a few thick pillars had not been left supporting the rest, it would undoubtedly have tumbled down.
如果没有几根粗大的柱子支撑这残骸，它肯定会倒下来。
While the study didn't assess why divorce is more likely when wives but not husbands become seriously ill, Karraker offers a few possible reasons.
这项研究没有分析为什么相比起丈夫重病，妻子重病时婚姻更容易破裂，卡拉克则为此提供了一些可能的原因。
The few people I made eye contact with just smiled back, but not one looked away in embarrassment or disgust.
偶尔与几个人目光对接，也只是相视一笑，没人尴尬或是嫌恶地躲开视线，更没有恶言相向。
The passenger put it, "In the past few hours, you have asked me whether I needed help or not for twelve times in all."
乘客说：“在过去的几个小时里，你问我需不需要帮助总共有12次。”
In the 1950s, African American writers had few chances to demonstrate that they had any knowledge of life that did not have something to do with Black.
在20世纪50年代，非裔美国作家几乎没有机会证明他们对生活的了解与黑人无关。
Over the next few months, I realized not only could I not afford my dream school, I couldn't even afford the ones where I'd been accepted.
在接下来的几个月里，我意识到我不仅负担不起理想学校的费用，甚至负担不起那些录取了我的学校的费用。
Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.
尽管不是几年前惯常的20%的利润率，但依然赚取了利润。
The next few weeks will be a period of readjustment, and will probably not be easy.
接下来的几周是重新适应的时期，很可能不会容易。
I'm taking a few clothes and some books, not much else.
我带了几件衣服和一些书，别的就不多了。
Few doctors are actually trained, and not all are skilled, in helping their patients make choices.
在帮助病人做选择方面，没有几个医生实际受过训练，也并非所有的医生都很熟练。
My impatience with the customs ritual indicated that Chloe, who I had not known existed a few hours ago, had already acquired the status of a craving.
我对海关例行公事的不耐烦暗示着，几小时前我还不知道存在的克洛艾，已经产生了渴望的状态。
It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.
如果你认识的邻居很少，这并不一定意味着你不认识其他任何人。
You had a few companies involved, but not one of the largest companies in the world coming out with a lengthy and impassioned post, like we saw yesterday from Tim Cook.
有几家公司参与其中，但那时可没有一家世界上最大的公司用一篇充满激情的长文站出来表态，就像我们昨天看到的蒂姆·库克所做的那样。
You had a few companies involved, but not one of the largest companies in the world coming out with a lengthy and impassioned post, like we saw yesterday from Timothy Cook.
你有几家公司参与其中，但没有一家世界上最大的公司像我们昨天从蒂莫西·库克那里看到的那样，发表一篇冗长的、慷慨激昂的帖子。
It's not important, then, if there's a delay of a few years, or decades.
如果信号的接收会延迟几年或几十年，那么这个问题并不重要。
In countries like the USA, it is not strange for people to drive a few hundred yards to their local groceries.
在美国这样的国家，人们开车几百码去当地的杂货店并不奇怪。
The United Kingdom is one of the few countries in the world that does not have a large wild animal that eats meat.
英国是世界上少数几个没有大型食肉野生动物的国家之一。
It's not a remnant of some huge population that is dwindled in the last few hundred years for some reason.
它并不是由于某种原因而在过去几百年里减少的庞大人口的残余。
Just a few species of plants grow there because the temperature is very cold, and there's not much precipitation.
那里只有几种植物生长，因为温度很低，没有太多的降水。
Since the divers limit their catch to a few individuals and take care not to overfish, the divers' continuing activities will clearly not result in serious harm to populations of princessfish.
由于只有少数几个潜水员进行捕捞，而且他们会注意不造成过度捕捞的现象，所以潜水员的持续活动显然不会对公主鱼种群造成严重危害。
Instead they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine.
相反，他们都在室内，一个人或两三个人一组，他们的脸离屏幕只有几英寸，他们的手做着蒙特梭利绝对想象不到的事情。
Instead, they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine.
相反，他们都在室内，一个人或两三个人一组，他们的脸离屏幕只有几英寸，他们的手做着蒙特梭利绝对想象不到的事情。
But it's not a race, it's really just for fun and the best thing would be to take it easy the first few times you do it and then see if you can gradually improve your time.
但这不是一场比赛，真的只是为了好玩，最好是在刚开始的几次比赛中放松一些，然后看看你是否能在时间上逐渐提升。
"Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on," he claimed.
“前几天应该用来找工作，而不是用来办理失业登记。”他说道。
Of course, it is not like you can take an unemployed waiter and train him to be a doctor in a few weeks, no matter who pays for it.
当然，不管谁出钱，你也不可能在短短几周内把一个失业的服务员训练成专业医生。
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