Captain Turner was neither the first traveler nor the last, to be promised sight of a unicorn.

特纳上校即不是第一个，也不是最后一个听说独角兽踪迹的人。

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"There is no fault nor folly of my life," says Mr. Ruskin, "that does not rise up against me, and take away my joy, and shorten my power of possession, of sight, of understanding.

英国艺术批评家拉斯金曾说：“我的生活中没有什么错误或荒唐行为，能够使我亲痛仇快。 我的快乐、财富、眼界和理解力从未因此而减少分毫。

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Captain Turner was neither the first traveller, nor the last, to be promised sight of a unicorn-only to discover that wherever he happened to be, it was always somewhere else.

特纳上校即不是第一个，也不是最后一个听说独角兽的踪迹的人，只是不论他走到那里，独角兽却总在别的地方出现。

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The emphasis, of course, is on performance here with nary a rotary nor fader in sight (we imagine you'd be using your other controller for that, right?).

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But this week neither peace nor process was in sight.

ECONOMIST: Colombia

Nor were they likely to in the near future, given the task ahead, and the sight from our window of the thousands of pilgrims milling around the white marble of the Grand Mosque.

CNN: Preparing to cover The Hajj