We finished later than we had intended.
我们完成时已超出原定时间。
We apologize unreservedly for any offence we have caused.
若有得罪，我们深表歉意。
We then moved to Paris, where we lived for six years.
我们随后移居巴黎，在那里住了六年。
"We do tune our guitars before we go on," he insisted.
“我们继续演奏之前一定要为吉他定音，”他坚持说。
We picked the corn by hand and we fed it to the hogs and the cows.
我们掰下玉米，用来喂猪和奶牛。
We spent an hour jostling with the crowds as we did our shopping.
我们花了一个小时在人群中挤来挤去买东西。
We took out a loan for the car because we didn't want to dip into our savings.
因为不想动用存款，我们申请了一笔贷款买汽车。
Sporting greatness defies analysis – but we know it when we see it.
运动的伟大无法进行分析–但是我们一看就知道。
It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it.
一个几乎普遍的真理是，工作上提升得越高，我们最初的那些工作技能实际上就用得越少。
Too often we make decisions based solely upon what we see in the magazines.
大多数时候，我们仅仅依据在杂志上看到的东西作决定。
They've got us over a barrel. Either we agree to their terms or we lose the money.
他们让我们别无选择。我们要么答应他们的条件，要么损失这笔钱。
When we got home from our day's shopping, we laid all our booty out on the floor.
我们购物一天回到家里，把搜罗到的好东西都摊开摆在地板上。
This is an age when we boast of our emotional intelligence and we claim to feel each other's pain.
这是一个我们吹嘘情商并宣称能够体会到彼此痛苦的年代。
Originally, we had intended to go to Italy, but then we won the trip to Greece.
我们本来打算去意大利，但后来获得机会去了希腊。
Most of us would maintain that physical attractiveness does not play a major part in how we react to the people we meet.
我们中大多数人都会认为，外表的魅力在我们待人接物方面并不起主要作用。
I don't want to be rude, it's simply that we have to be careful who we give this information to.
我不是有意无礼，只不过这份资料给谁我们必须很慎重。
ZAKARIA: you know, the last time we talked, I, we, we, I asked you what books you were reading and what books you - you found interesting.
扎卡里亚：你知道，上次我们交谈的时候，我曾问你过去读过什么书？你认为哪些书比较有趣？
Saying 'we,' 'we all' is easier than saying 'I,' 'I alone,' isn't it?
说‘我们，’‘我们大家’比说‘我，’‘我自个’要容易得多，是不是？
We realized we were surrounded on all sides.
我们意识到我们被四面包围了。
We didn't know we were breaking the law.
我们那时不知道我们在违法。
We've been trying to get back to you, Tom, but we think we took your number down incorrectly.
我们一直试着给你回复，汤姆，但我们觉得我们记错了你的号码。
We realize that we are infinitely small within the scheme of things.
我们认识到在大千世界中我们是极其渺小的。
We are as tightly bound to the people we dislike as to the people we love.
我们与我们喜欢的以及不喜欢的人都一样密切相关。
We have omitted footnotes which we judged inessential to the text.
我们省去了我们认为和正文无关紧要的脚注。
We can't go on like this —we seem to be always arguing.
我们不能这样继续下去—我们似乎老是争吵不休。
We do not accept responsibility but we will refund the money as a gesture of goodwill.
我们不承担责任，不过我们愿意退款以表示我们的善意。
When we want validation for our decisions we often turn to friends for advice and approval.
当我们想要获得对我们的决定的确认时，我们经常向朋友们求得建议和认可。
We went for the bottle of whisky that we had stashed behind the bookcase.
我们去取那瓶我们藏在书柜后面的威士忌。
Dear Mrs. Cox, Re: Homeowners Insurance. We note from our files that we have not yet received your renewal instructions.
亲爱的考克斯夫人，关于房主保险一事。我们从自己的资料中注意到我们还没有收到你续保的通知。
When we do things we dislike, we may discover something we do like along the way, or simply find a better way to deal with the things we must do.
当我们做不喜欢的事情时，我们可能会在过程中发现我们真正喜欢的是什么，或者只是会找到一个更好的方法来处理我们必须做的事情。
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