Yes, little old me, threw my best friend a birthday party; playing the dutiful friend, romance was far from my head, but isn't that always the way?

是的，古板的我为我最要好的朋友举办生日派对尽做朋友之责罗曼蒂克离我遥远了但事情会总是这样吗？

youdao

Two weeks ago, on a hot summer afternoon, I was about to cross a little busy road when I noticed an old grandpa with a heavy bag on his back just a few meters from me.

两周前，一个炎热的夏天的下午，我正要穿过一条有点繁忙的马路，这时我注意到一位背着一个沉重的包的老爷爷就在离我几米远的地方。

youdao

I thought of a number of names right away: the owner of our local bookstore, who let me and my little son in before the store opened and offered to play his favorite songs; our babysitter, who dropped off a bag of old board games for our kids to play; ...

我马上想到了许多名字：我们当地书店的老板，他在开店前让我和我的小儿子进去，并主动播放他最喜欢的歌曲；我们的保姆，她会放下一袋旧的棋盘游戏给我们的孩子玩；……

youdao

It was really difficult for me to shoot the old-style 'gunslinger' guns because I have tiny little baby hands and they are really large and heavy, so just the physicality of actually having to pull that off was really difficult.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

The tweed coat had been green when my father bought it for me in London that spring, but the nice old landlady at the little Scottish inn where we were staying when he was taken ill had firmly sent it out to be dyed the day before the funeral.

NPR: Excerpt: The Sherwood Ring

I'm from a little old town that don't have 400 people in it, and people want to touch me.

FORBES: No urinating on-camera, please

While these cloud-based resources are old hat for the Washington Beltway crowd, my travels have helped me realize how little is known about this important transformation.

FORBES: Government Cloud Computing on Forbes?