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Their host was a heavy, rather coarse Scotchman who had made a good fortune in Italy before the war, and had been knighted for his ultrapatriotism during the war.

那苏格兰夫妇一家四口一他们姓加丝利，是爱丁堡的坚实的中等阶级人家，他们坚实地享受一切，事事敢做敢说，只要自己不吃亏。

Still had that many person to buy the ticket in a booking waiting, I cannot bear such, I rather did not go back, had a companion to help me fortunately in side to the reason condition......

买回家的火车票都那么难，排队都能让人疯狂……仍然有那么多人在售票点等待买票，我是受不了那样，我宁愿不回去了，还好有个同伴在旁边帮我到理智的状态

We each had our own private bathroom yet my shower was rather strange and had an extremely small shower with a low sloping ceiling.

我们有自己私人浴室，不过我的淋浴器特别小，天花板还是倾斜的。

The news will be a major fillip for Benitez who had feared he had lost the talismanic striker for months rather than week.

这个消息对贝尼特斯来说是非常振奋的消息，他非常害怕他失去他的魔力前锋是以月计算而不是以周计算。

THE new emperor went early in the morning to the capitol, and sacrificed; and, having commanded Marius Celsus to be brought, he saluted him, and with obliging language desired him rather to forget his accusation than remember his acquittal; to which Celsus answered neither meanly nor ungratefully, that his very crime ought to recommend his integrity, since his guilt had been his fidelity to Galba, from whom he had never received any personal obligations.

电子书简介：新皇帝了清晨的国会大厦，和牺牲，并因指挥马瑞斯塞尔苏斯被带，他赞扬他，并责成他的语言，而不是想要忘记比记住他的指控，他被判无罪；在回答既不是杰尔苏卑微也不忘恩负义，他非常罪行应该建议他的诚实，因为他的罪行是他的忠实加尔巴，从他们那里他从来没有收到任何个人的义务。

"I," replied the viscount ,--"I saw Castaing executed, but I think I was rather intoxicated that day, for I had quitted college the same morning, and we had passed the previous night at a tavern."

"我，"伯爵答道，"我看过杀卡斯泰，但我好象记得那天我已喝醉了酒，因为我是在那天早晨离开了学校，从酒店里闹了一个通宵出来的。"

She had always been the child he wanted to adopt.He had no idea that Silas would rather die than lose Eppie,and he imagined that the weaver would be glad if the child were adopted by the Cass family.

他一直很想收养她，没有想到西拉斯宁可死也不愿意失去埃比，只认为织布匠会为埃比被凯斯家收养而高兴。

It had occurred to her to look once more into the queer gaunt room which had been Clares den, or rather eyrie, for so long, and climbing the ladder she stood at the open door of the apartment, regarding and pondering.

她突然想起来再去把那个古怪的房间搜查一遍，长期以来，这个房间一直是克莱尔的兽穴，或者不如说是鸟巢；她爬上楼梯，站在门开着的房间门口，观察着、思考着。

As a matter of fact,this idea might have been an earlier idea created by Microsoft.Before the introduction of Live ID, the concept of MSN Passport had been propaganded by Microsoft for quite a few years, through which Microsoft had attempted to promote its universal online user identification system, as was a rather magnificent and forethoughtful and even kind of monopolistic idea. However obviously,such a project has a long way to go.

这个点子似乎微软考虑地更早，在Live ID的称呼出现之前，MSN Passport的概念已经被微软经营了很多年——微软企图用Passport来推进网络用户身份的统一识别体系，这是一个颇为宏伟和深谋远虑的甚至带了很多垄断色彩的计划。

However, three of us are Americans who speak only English and had never been to China before. Mr. Glis made everything seem manageable and rather simple, not at all the complicated situation we had thought we might encounter.

然而，李先生却帮我们这三个从来没有来过中国，只懂说英语的美国人把一切都变得简单，比起我们之前所想象到的复杂简直是天渊之别。

A historical region of southwest France between the Pyrenees and the Garonne River. The duchy of Aquitaine was joined with France after the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to King Louis VII in1137, but its possession was disputed after her subsequent marriage to Henry II of England.

阿基坦法国西南部一个历史地区，位于比利牛斯山和加隆河之间，在1137年阿基坦的埃莉诺与国王路易斯七世结婚之后阿基坦公国加入法国，但当她再嫁英国亨利二世后，其归属权便受到争议

There are moments when I look at the smiling , happy faces of my expectant staff and wonder how they will cope when confronted by an outraged housemaster along with an unrepentant and recalcitrant bleached blond teenager in 18 years ' time .

有时候，我看着那些满怀期待的员工微笑，幸福的脸，想着当他们遇到一位愤怒的宿舍管理员和一位不知悔改，叛逆，而且将头发染成白色的18岁少年时，他们会如何处理。