When he turned and confronted it, the thing had vanished.
当他转身面对它时，那东西已经消失了。
Lord, how marvellous a thing it is, the grip his memory doth take upon his quaint and crazy fancies!
主啊，这是多么奇妙的一件事啊！他的记忆抓住了他那古怪而疯狂的幻想！
I thought it would reflect badly on me so I tried to hush the whole thing up.
我想此事会给我的公众形象造成很坏的影响，于是我想方设法不把它声张出去。
If you don't like it, fair enough, but that's hardly a justification to attack the whole thing.
如果你不喜欢它，可以，但把它说得一无是处就没什么道理了。
The peculiar thing about getting engaged is that you're meant to announce it to everyone.
订婚特别要做的事是你理应该向每个人宣布你订婚了。
We didn't want the press to get hold of the story, but it might be no bad thing.
我们本不想让新闻界知道这事，但是知道了也许并非是坏事。
"What does your market research consist of?"—"Well, the thing is, it depends on our target age group."
“你的市场研究包含什么内容？”—“哦，问题是，这取决于我们的目标年龄群体。”
It'll cost a lot—well, take a lot of time, but it amounts to the same thing.
会花很多—哦，得花大量时间，不过反正都是一回事。
It was one thing to talk about leaving; it was another to physically walk out the door.
说要离开是一回事；真正走出门又是另一回事。
Now that everyone knew the truth, the only thing to do was to brazen it out.
既然大家都知道真相了，只好硬着头皮撑过去。
Postulating the effect is one thing; teasing it out from the cobweb of climatic feedback loops and estimating its magnitude is something else altogether.
假设其影响是一码事，在气候反馈循环的蛛丝马迹中对其研究，并评估其重要性则完全是另外一码事。
So, the first thing is, you normally write it during the first half of the academic year.
所以首先，你通常在学年的前半段写好它。
The first thing about studying architecture is that you have to love it from the bottom of your heart.
学习建筑学的首要精义是你得发自内心的喜爱。
She seized her bowl and emptied it eagerly, as if it was the most wonderful thing she had ever tasted.
她抓起碗，迫不及待地把它喝完了，仿佛这是她尝过的最好吃的东西。
Another thing it uses ultrasound to detect is the size and shape of objects.
它还利用超声波来探测物体的大小和形状。
It appears to me that the first thing we should do is teach people how to sort waste.
在我看来，我们应该做的第一件事是教人们如何分类垃圾。
The thing is, machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition.
问题是，机器在人脸识别方面仍然有局限。
The first thing that falleth under your eye will be the Great Seal--fetch it hither.
你眼睛看到的第一件东西就是国玺——把它拿过来。
An analogy I like to think about is that when you're repairing your car, the first thing you do is to stomp it and shut off the engine.
我想打个比方，当修你的车时，你首先要做的是刹车，关掉引擎。
The ideal thing would be, that the mutual fund does these calculations and it puts it all together for you.
最理想的情况是，共同基金做这些计算，然后为你把这些计算汇总起来。
"No, they're not," said the White Rabbit, "and that's the queerest thing about it."
“不，它们不是，”兔子说，“那是最奇怪的事情。”
The essay is the hardest thing to do, so he's put it off the longest.
论文是最难的，所以他拖延得最久。
In architecture, a keystone in an archway or doorway is the stone that holds the whole thing together, and keeps it from collapsing.
建筑学中，拱道或门口的拱心石，是把建筑整体连接在一起来防止它倒塌的石头。
The most important thing about cotton in history is the part that it played in the Industrial Revolution.
棉花在历史上最重要的意义是它在工业革命中所起的作用。
The great thing about kefir is that it does not require a manufacturing line in order to be produced.
科菲尔的伟大之处在于，它不需要一条生产线就可以生产。
We have a new restaurant and picnic area and the latest thing that we have—and it was only finished last week—is the splash ride.
我们开了一家新餐厅，也开辟了野餐区域，还有我们的最新项目——上周才完工——就是水上摩托。
Every time we do the right thing, it makes doing the same thing next time much easier.
每次我们做正确的事情，都会使下次做同样的事情变得更加容易。
Every time we do the right thing, it makes doing the same thing next time much easier.
每次我们做正确的事情，都会使下次做同样的事情变得更加容易。
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