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I mean above all the city of London, which we can see behind you is one of the most enormous financial services capital, that's really what lifts London, rather than doing business, making widgets is rather harder, isn't it?

伦敦城，我是指在你背后我们可以看到的这个城市，是一个庞大的金融服务首都，是这些抬高了伦敦在金融界的地位，而不是仅仅做生意。做小部件往往更难，不是吗？

A second complication arising from the merger is that the 1977 figures shown in this report are different from the 1977 figures shown in the report we mailed to you last year. Accounting convention requires that when two entities such as Diversified and Berkshire are merged, all financial data subsequently must be presented as if the companies had been merged at the time they were formed rather than just recently. So the enclosed financial statements, in effect, pretend that in 1977 the Diversified-Berkshire merger already had taken place, even though the actual merger date was December 30, 1978. This shifting base makes comparative commentary confusing and, from time to time in our narrative report, we will talk of figures and performance for Berkshire shareholders as historically reported to you rather than as restated after the Diversified merger.

合并案所引发的第二项影响则是今年报表中秀出1977年的数字与去年提供给各位同一年度的数字有所不同，会计原则要求当像多元零售与伯克希尔这样二个独立个体合并时，所有报告的财务数字都必须假设这两家公司原本就在一起，所以后续呈现所有数字，是假设这两家公司早在1977年就已经合并，虽然真正合并的日期是1978年的12月30日，这样的改变使得比较性的评论很容易产生混淆，因为以往的报告中，我们告诉各位的都是伯克希尔的历史记录，而非依照合并多元零售后重新修正数字。

Pierian : a . belonging to Pieria, a region of ancient Macedonia, the reputed home of the Muses, hence allusively in reference to poetry and learning.

使用 rather than 必须注意它所接名词或短语要用与主句的与之平行部分相同的形式，另外rather than 后加不定式 to do或不带to的不定式或动词过去式都有可能，只要主句有此结构。

Meanwhile, the concentration of Pb,Zn and other heavy metals is rather high in the oxidation zone and decreasesdownward to levels that are unbelievably low for Pb-Zn mine tailings. Theseobservations suggest that heavy metals should be re-immobilized by secondaryminerals, rather than primary minerals, in the oxidation zone, and could be leachedout from suboxic environment due to low rate oxidative dissolution which preventsthe precipitation of secondary minerals in significant amount. Thus, cover scenarioswhich establish a suboxic environment beneath the cover layer might not always beeffective in preventing heavy metal release from mine tailings.Sequential extraction studies indicate that, in addition to heavy metal leaching,oxidation of the mine tailings increased the mobility of residual Zn, and Cu, while Pb remains immobile due to the formation of anglesite (PbSO4). Using the seven-step extraction technique developed by Dold (J. Geochem. Explor., 2003, 80: 55-68), galena dissolves in significant amount at step 2 most probably due to the strong complexing of Pb2+ by acetate, while other metal sulfides dissolve at step 6, which suggest that this extraction technique could not be used to evaluate the mobility of lead in natural environment

重金属含量均低于新鲜尾矿，但以硬化层中的含量最高(Pb、Zn含量分别为0.47%和0.93%)，往下大幅度降低，表明尾矿风化过程中形成的次生矿物对Pb、Zn等重金属元素有较强的固定作用，而次氧化带的淋溶作用造成了金属元素的大量流失；(4)与新鲜尾矿相比，硬化层中铅的可迁移性大大降低，硬化层之下尾矿样品中铅的可迁移性也不同程度降低，这是由于硫化物氧化产生的硫酸根与尾矿中的铅反应形成铅矾(PbSO_4)的缘故；(5)氧化作用使尾矿中的zn、Cu等重金属的可迁移性不同程度地增大，其中对锌的可迁移性影响最大，铜的可迁移性与铁比较相似，铅则容易与硫化物氧化形成的SO_4~(2-)反应形成铅矾(PbSO_4)；(6)为了减少尾矿污染和修复矿山环境，人们提出了各种不同的尾矿覆盖方案，本文的研究结果表明，这些方法不一定能够有效地阻滞污染元素的迁移。

At one's worst Back 意群提示 Anyone, once involved in the river of love, be involved in the river of love / see one at always wishes his sweetheart to see him at his one's best / rather than best rather than at his worst.

新视野 -短语应用任何人一旦被卷入爱河，任何人一旦被卷入爱河，短总希望心上人看到自己语最差的时候；最差的时候；最糟最好的一面，最好的一面，而不是最逆译糕的时候糟的一面。

From inside information extending over a series of years Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.

204根据经年累月的内幕消息，布卢姆先生颇倾向于把上述见解看作是荒谬透顶的胡言乱语，嗤之以鼻；因为姑且不论他是否衷心企盼那样一种结局，对这一事实他总是了如指掌：除非海峡对岸的那些邻人远比他所设想的还要愚蠢，否则与其认为他们在显示实力，毋宁说是藏而不露。

The Behavioralist Approach: A concern with explanatory rather than normative theory; a concern with recurring patterns rather than the single case; a concern with operational concepts that have measurable empirical reference rather than reified concepts; a concern with the conceptual frameworks; a concern for the techniques of precise data gathering, measurement and presentation.

行为主义方法：关注解释性理论而非规范性理论；关注重复性的模式而非单一的事件；关注那些含有可量度的经验参数的可操作性概念而非那些极为微妙的概念；注重概念框架；注重关于数据收集、量度和表述的精确技术。

Communicative language rather than re-form, the process rather than the result, rather than re fluently and accurately.

交际法重语言运用而不是形式，重过程而不是结果，重流利而不是准确。

Order a carafe of house wine instead of a bottle of fine wine (saves $20 in Rome). Choose a two-star hotel rather than a three-star one (saves $60 per night in Paris). Buy the transit pass rather than individual tickets (saves $5 per ride on London's Tube). Buy a scratch-off phone card at a European newsstand for calls home, and you'll pay pennies rather than dollars per minute.

来回去机场坐公交比打车省钱（节省40美元，在维也纳），点那种与饭菜搭售的酒比单点一瓶好酒便宜（节省20美元，在罗马），选择二星级酒店比选择三星级酒店好（每晚节省60美元，在巴黎），购买国境通行证比单个人的票要好（节省5美元，在伦敦地铁），从欧洲那种报亭买刮式电话卡给家里打电话，每分钟只要几便士，而不是几美元。

Order a carafe of house wine instead of a bottle of fine wine (saves $20 in Rome). Choose a two-star hotel rather than a three-star one (saves $60 per night in Paris). Buy the transit pass rather than individual tickets (saves $5 per ride on London's Tube). Buy a scratch-off phone card at a European newsstand for calls home, and you'll pay pennies rather than dollars per minute.

来回去机场坐公交比打车省钱（节省40美元，在维也纳），点那种与饭菜搭售的酒比单点一瓶好酒便宜（节省20美元，在罗马），选择二星级酒店比选择三星级酒店好（每晚节省60美元，在巴黎），购买国境通行证比单个人票好（节省5美元，在伦敦地铁），从欧洲那种报亭买刮式的电话卡给家里打电话，每分钟只要几便士，而不是几美元。

We are interested in your suggestions about appointing us to be the single dealer.

对贵方建议由我方担任独家经销商一事，我们颇感兴趣。

Three types of empty-shell marriages have been identified. In a devitalized relationship husband and wife lack excitement or any real interest in their spouse or their marriage.

一种是死气沉沉的婚姻：在这种婚姻关系中夫妻俩对于配偶或婚姻缺乏激情，或者缺乏真正的兴趣。