This is a modern city, not a scene of fragmentation or despair, but a rising city of desire.
这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。
Of love, I know only that mixture of desire, affection, and intelligence that binds me to this or that creature.
关于爱情，我的理解是把我和这样或那样的生物绑在一起的欲望、情感和智慧的混合体。
Its eternal fervidity lets me light up the roaring flame of desire and break out the spring thunder of heart.
那永恒的炽热，让我心中燃起希望的烈焰、响起春雷。
It has put itself (in the phrase of a Coca-Cola executive with a literary bent) "always within an arm's length of desire."
它这样形容自己：「渴望，总在一个手臂的距离之内」（这句话来自爱好文学的可口可乐执行官）。
In that society, as in virtually all others, pots quickly went beyond their functional purpose to become objects of desire and display.
在那个社会里，几乎像其他社会一样，陶器很快就超越了其最初的功能性价值，变成一种人类爱好与展示的物品。
It is often difficult for outside to understand the villagers' lack of desire for privacy.
外人常常难以理解这些村民何以缺乏静居独处的念头。
On Sunday, we're not facing Real Madrid, but we need to go out with the same level of desire as if we were.
在这个周日，我们不是面对皇马，但是只要我们比赛，我们就需要带着同样的渴望出场。
Four days later, Jackson was back "full of energy, full of desire to work, full of enthusiasm," Ortega said.
四天后，杰克逊精神饱满，渴望工作，充满热情地回来了，奥尔特加说。
Also, this team is not old inside and are full of desire to win, something I understand from their willingness.
而且，这支球队并没有一颗衰老的心，充满了求胜的动力，我能感受得到。
In such feeble tendencies, be it known, such outworking of desire to reproduce life, lies the basis of all dramatic art.
要知道，一切戏剧艺术正是来源于这种努力重现生活的微弱倾向和意愿。
The problem is not lack of desire to spend, but lack of money: Household disposable income has been shrinking as a share of GDP.
问题不在于人们不想花钱，而是缺钱：家庭可支配收入占GDP的比例一向在缩水。
One should desire for win, but not greed. And if one can control the level of desire, his strength in go would make a great improvement.
既要求胜，又不贪胜，如果能掌握到此中关键，棋力便会大大地提高一步。
As often happens in May-to-December romances, even a well-financed suitor can encounter resistance from the youthful object of desire.
正像老少配爱情经常发生的那样，即使是殷实的求爱者也可能被心仪的年轻目标所拒绝。
The architectural term, pathways of desire, refers to dirt ruts1 in the grass that people make when they want a shortcut between prescribed routes.
“愿望小径”是个建筑学上的术语，它是指人们希望在规定路线间建立一条捷径时在草地上踩出的一条条土痕。
Even though I could gratify every caprice and lay my hands on every object of desire, I would not go into rapture, unless with you in my life.
除非生命中有你，否则，即使能恣意妄为，能染指任何想要的，我也不会快乐。
Since then, much of the further decline may well have been the result of a lack of desire, in the case of urban couples especially, to have more than one child.
而自那以后，生育率的进一步滑坡可能更多需要归功于民众对多要一个孩子这件事并不那么感冒，在城市，这种现象尤其明显。
I wonder whether we show this kind of desire for God as clearly as the psalmist does. It probably depends on our level of faith and where we are in our spiritual journey.
我怀疑我们有没有像这位诗人那样，如此直接地表达对神的渴慕，这大概和我们信心的程度及我们灵性状况有关吧。
I would like to say that it pains me very much not to be able to go more regularly, but it is surely no lack of desire on my part, just that I am so busy most of the time.
我想说，对于我无法更常去那里感到难过，不过我想去的愿望并没有少过，只是因为我大多数的时间都太忙了。
In modern designs, the fish emblazonment emphasizes more about its decoration and its decorative meaning still contains a kind of desire to the fish symbolizing good omen.
现代设计中鱼形纹饰更多的是强调它的装饰性，在现代鱼形纹饰的装饰意义深处仍暗含着对鱼能传达吉祥意义的祈求。
Romantic novelists rarely fail to include in their oeuvre that special moment when two strangers look into each other's eyes across a crowded room and feel the tingle of desire.
浪漫主义小说家大多善于在作品中描写这样的场面：在一间拥挤的房间里，陌生男女随着目光的交汇，怦然心动。
In the change of village and conflict of civilization between countryside and city, moving towards the city becomes a kind of desire which the village person controls difficulty.
在乡村变局与城乡文明冲突中，走向城市成为乡村人难以遏制的向往。
Thus viewing sports provides the raw material for dreams. Nevertheless, women too feel vicarious satisfaction of desire to win, and more women are becoming active in competitive sports.
因此观看这类比赛给他们的遐想提供了素材。而女性在观看比赛中也从他人身上间接地获得了渴望取胜的满足感，而且有更多的女性正积极的投身到竞技体育中去。
Take one of their principal objects of desire, two-wheel scooters. Last year about 8m were sold in Indonesia, dwarfing sales in the rest of South-East Asia (1.7m in Thailand, for instance).
以他们首要追求的目标物之一双轮摩托车为例，去年印尼大约卖了800万辆，使东南亚其他国家的销量相形见绌(如泰国是170万辆)。
Take one of their principal objects of desire, two-wheel scooters. Last year about 8m were sold in Indonesia, dwarfing sales in the rest of South-East Asia (1.7m in Thailand, for instance).
以他们首要追求的目标物之一双轮摩托车为例，去年印尼大约卖了800万辆，使东南亚其他国家的销量相形见绌(如泰国是170万辆)。
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