When invited to a dinner party or wedding, we feel a strong compulsion to reciprocate, sometimes against our better judgement.
当被邀请参加一次晚宴或婚礼时，我们感觉到很大强迫去交换，有时不利于我们更好的判断。
Until 1970 it was not fashionable and sometimes against the law for women to wear pants in offices, classrooms, and restaurants in the U.S..
直到1970年，裤子都不时髦，有时候女性在美国的办公室、教室和餐厅穿裤子是违反法律的。
In the early Roman Empire, playwrights were sometimes exiled or executed for line constructed as directed against the emperor; thus, Seneca's silence may be simple prudence.
在罗马帝国早期，剧作家有时会因为反对皇帝而被流放或处死；因此，塞内加的沉默可能只是出于谨慎。
A person's looks are a double-edged sword. Sometimes it works in your favour, sometimes it works against you.
一个人的相貌是一把双刃剑。有时它对你有利，有时又对你不利。
Against lower-ranked players sometimes I lose focus for two or three games.
与低排位选手比赛时，有时我会在两三局比赛中走神。
Against that, Mr Cameron is his own strictest counsellor, sometimes answering his own question-why cannot more be done?
与此相反的是，卡梅伦是自己不折不扣的顾问，有时候他会提出问题——为什么不可以做到更多呢？
And of course you have to believe, sometimes with little data, that you can succeed against the odds.
当然，你还得自信能够立厄运而获胜，即使有时只是根据对少数数据的预测。
A conflict is when something or someone creates an obstacle to keep the other person or thing from achieving a goal. The obstacle is sometimes designed to work against both the hero and the villain.
在戏剧中制造冲突。所谓冲突指的是，一个人或一件事为了阻止别人或别的事情达成某个目的而制造某个障碍。有时，这个障碍可以被设计成既针对英雄，又针对坏人。
It's also against our nature to be contrarian. Uncomfortable alone, we seek the safety of the crowd, sometimes with disastrous consequences.
与大多数人持相反意见也是违反我们本性的，我们孤立时会不安，在人群中寻找安全感，有时候后果不堪设想。
A healthy diet and regular exercise are certainly the best weapons against weight gain, but the fact is that sometimes they aren't enough.
健康的饮食和经常性的锻炼当然是对付增重的最佳武器，但是事实证明有时候仅靠这些是不够的。
I don't have anything against emotion, but when it's a negative emotion, sometimes it can cause more harm than good.
我对于情绪没有偏见，但是当它是消极情绪时，有时候带来的伤害会比好处多。
Sometimes they can be made to play fair (experiment three), sometimes the groups will unite against a common enemy (experiment one) and sometimes they will turn on the powerful group (experiment two).
有时候他们可以公平竞争(实验三)，有时他们会联合抵抗共同的敌人(实验一)，而有时他们又会联手对付更强大的那个团体(实验二)。
"I see things through child filtered glasses which sometimes seems to be against me and on better days not, " she says.
我透过孩童般的眼光看世界，而这有时会对我不利，但运气好的时候则不是。
Of course, sometimes it's hard to automate things, but you should at least consider the option and weigh its advantages against the time you will spend automating it.
当然，有时很难自动化，但应该至少考虑这个问题，并且权衡其优势及自动化所花费的时间。
Most empirical exercises confront theory with numbers—they test theories against the data; sometimes they even reject them.
很多经验主义者反对带有数字的理论，他们也不通过数据验证他们的理论，有时甚至完全拒绝数据的应用。
Egging borrowers on are bankers, who sometimes admit to lending amounts, as a multiple of underlying cashflows, that are against their better judgment.
怂恿借款者继续的是银行家们，他们有时也承认进行有违他们更好判断的贷款。这些贷款通常是以一种连环隐藏现金流的形式。
Part 2:Against the panorama of these activities, it is sometimes difficult for normal people not to feel a pang of regret for how our own needs sometimes override those of nature.
综述所有这些活动，正常人有时会发现很难不感到一阵后悔，因为我们自己的需求不知为何会那样压倒自然的需求。
Sure it works, but you sometimes end up fighting against the language.
当然它能工作，但有时候最终的结果是与语言对抗。
The metropolis is sometimes called "Maximum City", because it is always pressed up hard against its limits.
这个大都市有时被称为‘最大化的城市’，因为它总是最大程度的对抗他的限制。
Behind the bedroom were an old kitchen and a bathroom so small the toilet seat sometimes scraped against the bathtub.
卧室的后面是一个旧的厨房和一间浴室，浴室非常小，抽水马桶的盖子有时竞会碰擦到浴缸。
But in metal-on-metal hips, either because of poor design or poor implant technique, the ball can sometimes press against the cup's edge.
但是，对于金属对金属介面人工髋关节来说，由于设计拙劣或者植入技术不良，球体有时可能会压迫到杯状杯臼的边缘。
Sometimes an attacking mongoose is bitten, but it has another line of defense against the venom — its acetylcholine receptor has also evolved so that the cobra neurotoxin cannot bind to it.
有时猫鼬也会被咬到，但它还有除了反应之外的第二种防御毒液的方式——它的乙酰胆碱受体同样进化到了不怕眼镜蛇神经毒素的地步。
His services were sometimes retained by companies as a defence against those corporate raiders.
他的服务有时还会被企业保留下来，用以防备那些企业掠夺者。
He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against.
根据这个传记的宣传资料，他鼓励人们真诚的说话，乔布斯说话非常坦诚，有时候虽然粗鲁但是是对他与之竞争的人们。
SOMETIMES it seems that the candidates for governor of Virginia aren't running against each other. They're running away from other people.
其实有时候竞选佛吉尼亚州州长的候选人并非总是争锋相对，他们是要避开一些人。
Content owners have sometimes had more luck with the courts, winning a series of rulings against accused pirates.
内容持有人在遭遇法院时有的时候运道不错，赢得了一系列的不利于被控盗版者的判决。
You knew you had mail because you saw it in profile, leaning diagonally against the wall of your box, and years later, after I was gone from Ault, I dreamed sometimes that I saw that skinny shadow.
我走过去，要从侧面，斜对着你的信箱，才能看到里面有没有信。多年以后，离开了奥尔特，我依然还有时会梦见那斜斜的一条影子。
You knew you had mail because you saw it in profile, leaning diagonally against the wall of your box, and years later, after I was gone from Ault, I dreamed sometimes that I saw that skinny shadow.
我走过去，要从侧面，斜对着你的信箱，才能看到里面有没有信。多年以后，离开了奥尔特，我依然还有时会梦见那斜斜的一条影子。
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