不要说“童话故事里有仙女”,因为我们都知道,很少有童话故事里真的有这些魔法小生物。
Don't anyone say "a story with a fairy in it" because we all know that very few fairy tales actually have those tiny magical creatures in them.
其中令人惊讶的发现是丽贝卡·布鲁克斯对她的新闻工作室所发生的事情知之甚少,她很少过问、事实上她从不询问新闻故事是怎样得来的。
One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived.
这是一个美好的故事,但不幸的是,它很少按照这种方式发生。
It's a nice story, but unfortunately, it rarely works out that way.
The first creation story doesn't really contain puns and wordplays, it's a little bit serious. The second creation story is full of them: there are all sorts of little ironies and puns in the Hebrew.
第一个创世纪故事中很少有双关语和文字游戏,有几分严肃,第二个故事却充满了这些:,希伯来语中有许多反讽和双关。
There's a famous story about Irving Fisher who was a professor here at Yale who remarking on how few people understand the gold standard.
有一个著名的关于耶鲁大学教授,欧文?费雪的故事,他探到了很少人,懂得金本位的道理。
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