这么说你想成为一个作家了？得了，我劝你不要放弃老本行。
So you want to be a writer? Well my advice is, don't give up the day job.
她喜欢老本·威瑟斯塔夫。
当科林在他的树下伸出手来的时候，老本贪婪地盯着他，并一直盯着他。
When Colin held forth under his tree old Ben fixed devouring eyes on him and kept them there.
从这个角度来看，衰老本身可能是可以治疗的，就像治疗高血压或维生素缺乏症那样。
In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency.
看来我们再也不能靠吃老本过曰子了。
It seems that we can no longer afford to rest on our Laurels.
不会让你赔老本的价格。
兰德公司指出，没有证据表明美国正在吃老本。
There is little evidence that America is resting on its laurels, according to RAND.
甚至，衰老本身也可能是由不健康饮食而加速。
Even ageing itself might be accelerated by an unhealthy diet.
所以吃老本的人是会被人瞧不起或没有前途的。
Therefore, those who live off their past gains will be looked down upon and won't have a prospect.
这还没有促使他们把苏联的老本拿来孤注一掷。
This did not yet tempt them to adventures staking Soviet assets.
之后，门徒似乎有一段短时间回去作捕鱼的老本行。
Then it would seem that the disciples went back to their fishing for a short period.
过去这所学校名声很好，但长期以来却一直在吃老本。
The school used to have a good reputation but it has been resting on its laurels for too long.
过去这所学校名声很好，但长期以来却一直在吃老本。
The school used to have a good reputation but it has been resting on its laurels for too long.
严酷的事实是，我们不能靠老本在当今世界上取得发言权。
Ex. 4 The hard truth is that we are not owed a say in the world today on what we have been.
申请者也须是真正被裁的员工，而不是不想工作打算吃老本。
The applicant has truly been retrenched by his employer, and not someone who chose to be retrenched because he does not feel like working.
卡拉汉先生警告说，如果我们卖北海的资源，那我们就是在卖老本。
Mr Callaghan warned that if we sold our assets in the North Sea, we would be eating the seedcorn.
不到8个月后，这些利润——连同该公司的其它老本——化为了尘土。
Within eight months, those profits - and the rest of the firm - had turned to dust.
一个组织一旦失去开创精神，开始吃老本，它的进步也就就此停止了。
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering, and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
但是不幸的是，正如LTCM所发现的，同样小幅度的损失也能蚀光老本。
Unfortunately, as LTCM discovered, equally small losses could wipe out the fund.
做生意，如果你把本投进去了，老是不赚钱，最后连“老本”都赔光了。
Take business as an example, after you put in your starting capital, if you can't make a profit from it, you'll be losing your "old capital".
乔大叔花了毕生的积蓄去盘一家店铺，可是买卖亏损，全部老本都赔光了。
Uncle Joe spent his life savings to buy a store, but it failed, and he lost his shirt.
前金融工程师潘迪特先生力图使花旗重拾老本行，从事企业服务和国际零售银行业务。
Mr Pandit, a former quant, is returning Citi to its roots in corporate services and international retail banking.
直到现在还很难断定是戈老本身还是他的翻译者给我们造成了这种戈老演讲唐突行为的印象。
It's hard to know whether it is Gorbachev or his interpreter who is responsible for the occasional brusqueness of tone.
探员们说，仍然有许多扒手坚持从事老本行。他们不断地被捕，但也不断提高自己的技艺。
Still, investigators say, many pickpockets make a career of it, racking up arrests, refining their skills.
对于普莱杰尔，经过三年的东奔西走，朝夕盼望，现在又回来干自己的老本行，真是好极了。
To Pledger, after three years of walking and waiting, it felt good to be back at his trade again.
我待够了这鬼地方，我要回城里去干我的老本行，开铅笔厂。嗯，不过呢，我之前说的仍然算数。
I'm getting the heck out of here and getting my pencil-making job back. Um. But what I said still goes.
我待够了这鬼地方，我要回城里去干我的老本行，开铅笔厂。嗯，不过呢，我之前说的仍然算数。
I'm getting the heck out of here and getting my pencil-making job back. Um. But what I said still goes.
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