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If your parents were worried about a serious problem that had nothing to do with you directly, would you want them to tell you about it or would you rather not know?

如果你父母正为一件事发愁但这事跟你却没有直接关系，你希望他们告诉你还是情愿不知道呢？

I had a sound sleep last night and I got up rather early this morning.

昨晚我睡得很香，今天早上我起的很早。

He had asked me to come so late, though I would have rather been abed, but he said it was something that would not wait.

他和我约见的时间很晚，虽然我想我宁可躺在床上，可他说这件事不能耽搁。

Finally I realized that I had to belong to myself rather than some sort of vague, abstract form of race or class ...

最后，我意识到我只有属于我自己，而不是某种模糊的，抽象形式的种族或阶层。。。

Seeing they were all looking at his chest he accommodatingly dragged his shirt more open so that on top of the timehonoured symbol of the mariner's hope and rest they had a full view of the figure 16 and a young man's sideface looking frowningly rather.

135他留意到大家都在瞧自己的胸脯，就爽快地把衬衫整个儿敞开来。这下子，在水手那古老的希望与安宁之象征上端，大家一眼就望到16这一数字和一个小伙子微露嗔色的侧脸。

Ever since one prayer bead had become luminous, there was something rather human about Wen Wa . She had become more active and open. Wen Xiang knew he could joke with her, So?

自从亮了一颗佛珠后，文娃已经略具人性，变得主动而开放，文祥知道可以幽她一默了：「怎麼样？

In the meantime harness of vegetable fiber had been manufactured, andsome days after the capture of the onagers, not only the cart was ready,but a straight road, or rather a cutting, had been made through the forestsof the Far West, from the angle of the Mercy to Port Balloon.

在这期间，他们又利用植物纤维制造了一套挽具。野驴来后不多天，不仅大车做好了，而且还在远西森林中笔直地开辟了一条道路——说得更恰当一些，是一条便道——从慈悲河的拐角直通气球港，大车可以驶过去。

"But we have the best bird after all," said one, and then they would have the bird sing again, although it was the thirty-fourth time they had listened to the same piece, and even then*(1) they had not learnt it, for it was rather difficult.

&我们总算是有了一只最好的鸟了。&他们说。因此那只人造的鸟儿又得唱起来了。他们把那个同样的曲调又听了第三十四次。虽然如此，他们还是记不住它，因为这是一个很难的曲调。

"But we have the best bird after all," said one, and then they would have the bird sing again, although it was the thirty-fourth time they had listened to the same piece, and even then they had not learnt it, for it was rather difficult.

他还说：淑女和绅士们，特别是皇上陛下，你们各位要知道，你们永远也猜不到一只真的夜莺会唱出甚么歌来；然而在这只人造夜莺的身体里，一切早就安排好了，要它唱甚么曲调。

Besides the Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic and the scripts he had an Electronic Thumb – a short squat black rod, smooth and matt with a couple of flat switches and dials at one end; he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator.

在亚以太自动感应器和剧本旁边，有一个电动拇指——一根短粗光滑哑光黑色棒子，一头有两个平头开关和拨号盘；还有一个颇为庞大的类似电子计算器的设备。

If you are unfortunate enough to the lovelorn, please tell me, I will help you out, really, please contact me!

如果你不幸失恋了，请告诉我，我会帮助你摆脱困境，真的，请联系我啦！

China's plan to cut energy intensity by 20 percent and pollutant discharges by 10 percent between 2006 and 2010 is a case in point.

中国计划在2006年到2010间降低20%的能源强度和减少10%的主要污染物排放，就是一个这样的例子。