Doing nothing but something is an angle is the nature of a merchant.

只做有利可图的事是商人的本性。

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I bring nothing, but would have something given.

我什么也没带来，但我希望能得到点什么。

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She says nothing after this encounter, remaining silent or speechless for the rest of the mask, but Milton clearly finds, I think, something threatening here.

在这次相遇后她什么都没说，在接下来的掩饰中也保持着沉默寡言，可我认为弥尔顿明显在这里找到了某种有威胁的东西。

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Now we might at first think that Satan's vaunting here is the product of nothing more elevated than hate and a desire for revenge, but Milton's doing something truly extraordinary.

我们首先会想到撒旦之所以在这里自吹自擂,不过是因为他的仇恨和复仇的欲望，不过弥尔顿在这里做了不同寻常的艺术处理。

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God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

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But, it ceased being funny, and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad where something like a million people died in World War Two of starvation; but, there were all sorts of little caskets being dragged along to what passed then for mortuaries.

但是,这不再那么有趣了,而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了,二战时期的大概有一百万人,被活活饿死,但是,巴黎有各种棺材,被拖到太平间去

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It seemed the kind of history that passes mostly unobserved, a diesel engine and a hundred boxcars rolling over remote country, and we shared an unspoken moment of respect, Todd and I, for times past, frontiers gone, and then walked on, talking about nothing much but making something of it.

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They had nothing to say, but something, nevertheless, seemed to go from him to her.

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But to my naive mind it is nothing but unethical to say something without getting the facts right.

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