It was an historic day, yet its passing was not marked by the slightest excitement.
这是有历史意义的一天，然而这一天的结束却没有被赋予丝毫的兴奋感。
It seemed like a thing alive and yet its tiny voice made the stillness seem deeper.
它仿佛是有生命的，但它细小的声音让周围更加沉静了。
Yet its report may well set back reform by obscuring the depth and breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate.
然而它发布的报告很可能会阻碍改革的步伐，因为国会要求它阐明挑战的深度和广度，而这一点却并没有被阐述清楚。
然而，历史的价值却是巨大的。
This situation is initially confusing, yet its merits are easily discernible.
这样的处境在一开始是困惑的，但是它的优点很容易被觉察。
Yet its efforts have been so hapless that many accuse it of not really trying.
然而，他们的努力不走运，以致许多人指责他们并没有真正作战。
Yet its employment rose by 0.7% while America's plunged by 5.5% (see left-hand chart).
然而相较于美国就业率5.5%的负增长，其就业率增长了0.7%(见上图)。
Yet its implications are explicit, and we are pledged to honor this responsibility.
但它的含义是明确的，并且我们承诺履行这一责任。
Helter Skelter is really "close to the metal", yet its power has stood the test of time.
《慌慌张张》十分“接近金属”，但其实力经受了时间的考验。
Yet its sales in 2007 were $44 billion, compared with $105 billion for Samsung Electronics.
然而其2007年的销售额为440亿美元，与三星电子1050亿美元的销售额相比相形见绌，。
The flower sweetens the air with its perfume; yet its last service is to offer itself to thee.
花朵以芬芳熏香了空气；但它最终的任务，是把自己献上给你。
The space station costs upward of $100 billion, yet its critics call it a "station to nowhere."
空间站的成本超过一千亿美元，然而一些批评人士将它称之为一座“不存在的车站”。
Yet its history can be read as the result of business constraints as much as of managerial genius.
它的历史可以解读为业务约束和天才管理的结合。
It slams Mr Aso's stimulus packages for adding to Japan's debt, yet its own proposals would probably add more.
它猛烈抨击麻生的刺激计划却增加了日本的债务，然而它自己的建议可能会带来更多的麻烦。
Estonia now sees itself as a solidly Nordic country, yet its snow-clad neighbour, Latvia, needed an IMF-led bail-out.
现在，爱沙尼亚认为自己是一个团结统一的北欧国家；而它冰雪覆盖的邻居拉脱维亚，却需要国际货币基金组织领导的救援计划。
Yet its ability to get its way rests on economic credibility. Is it the weakest of the strong, or strongest of the weak?
它前行的动力在于他的金融信誉度，它到底是强者中的弱者还是弱者中的强者？
Yet its wine binge has left it with such a nasty hangover that many investors think it will not be able to stand on its own for long.
然而它的葡萄洒盛宴已经令其严重宿醉，许多投资者认为在未来很长一段时间里它都不能自己站起来。
SOUTH AFRICA spends a bigger share of its GDP on education than any other country on the continent. Yet its results are among the worst.
南非的教育开支在GDP中所占的份额大于非洲其它国家，但得到的结果却糟糕至极。
Yet its real precedent is Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, a monument to air travel conceived by Albert Speer in the 1930s as a gateway to a new Europe.
然而，它真正的前身是柏林的Tempelhof机场，这座由阿尔波特•斯佩尔先生设计的作品也是航空建筑的里程碑，在上世纪30年代，被看作是进入新欧洲的门户。
Japan's exports in February were half what they had been a year earlier; yet its imports had fallen so much that the country still recorded a surplus.
日本二月份的出口是一年前的一半；然而其进口下降如此之多，它仍然保持着顺差。
Yet its board told shareholders during their annual meeting that it strongly backed its chief executive, Terry Semel. A week later, Semel was out as C.E.O..
不过雅虎董事会却在年会上对股东信誓旦旦地保证，称董事会强烈支持雅虎的首席执行官特里•萨梅尔，结果才过了一个星期，萨梅尔就从首席执行官的位子上离职了。
We envy it, some of us kill for it, we look down our noses at it, some of us won't have anything to do with it, and yet its place in the cultural consciousness is assured.
我们崇拜它，甚至有人为财死；我们鄙视它，甚至有人无财缘。但是金钱在文化意识中的地位确凿无疑。
It was the first country to perform a heart transplant, and some of its doctors are still among the best anywhere; yet its people's health record is among the world's worst.
南非是第一个进行心脏移植手术的国家，而且一些医生是世界上最好的，然而人民的健康记录却是世界上最差的。
If your organization needs a different development process, yet its organizational culture is strongly against change, don't try to adopt agile methods before trying to change the culture.
如果组织需要不同的开发流程，而其组织文化强烈抵制更改，则在尝试改变文化之前，不要尝试采用敏捷方法。
Yet the loss of formality has its downside.
然而，失礼也有其不利的一面。
Yet the loss of formality has its down side.
然而，失礼也有其不利的一面。
Its concepts are woolly and untestable, yet are regarded as unassailable axioms.
它的概念模糊而不可测试，但却被认为是公理而无懈可击。
Its concepts are woolly and untestable, yet are regarded as unassailable axioms.
它的概念模糊而不可测试，但却被认为是公理而无懈可击。
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