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"The reason we're losing natural capital is because it's free," says Ed Barbier, noting that we often think of conservation in terms of its costs rather than its value, and regard manufactured goods in terms of value rather than their environmental costs.

Ed Barbier认为我们经常从自然的损耗而不是它的价值来考虑保护环境，而对于制成品，我们考虑的是它的价值而非它对大自然的损耗。

And I'd rather be known for my career rather than my whereabouts.

我宁愿知道我的职业胜于我的下落。

Would you rather stay in the classroom?I'd rather have a cup of black tea.

在wish后的从句中，用一般过去时表示与现在事实相反的意思。

And I was so pleasantly musing over the two men mowing: the young one, with long legs in bright blue cotton trousers, and with bare black head, swinging so lightly downhill, and the other, in black trousers, rather stout in front , and wearing a new straw hat of the boater variety, coming rather stiffly after, crunching the end of his stroke with a certain violent effort.

可我刚刚还在愉快地望着两个割草人若有所思：年轻的一位生着一双长腿，穿着天蓝色的棉布裤子，黑黑的头发上没戴帽子，在山脚下轻松地来回摇摆着长镰；另一位穿着黑裤子，前面肚子挺壮实，戴着一顶新的硬边草帽，呆板板地走在后面，颇费力气地用镰刀尖嘎吱嘎吱地割着草。

Through the analysis of specific historical facts, we can obviously find that the incident in 1327 is just a traditional coup d'etat rather than "constitutional revolution" in the modern sense. The impeachment case in 1376 was sprung from conflicts among the noble groups. The impeachment procedure was not standardized, and the outcome lack of effective protection and the constitutional impact was very limited. The incident in 1399 was just Henry Bolingbroke usurp the throne by force, taking advantage of Richard II deserted circumstance, which had nothing to do with the pursuit democratic constitution or against the autocratic rule. It is still a dynasty change in the traditional sense, rather than the so-called "Lancaster Constitutional Revolution".

当然，通过具体史实的分析，我们不难发现，1327年事件只是一场传统意义上的宫廷政变，而不是近代意义上的"宪政革命"。1376年的弹劾案源于贵族之间的派别矛盾，弹劾程序并不规范，弹劾成果缺乏保障，弹劾的宪政影响也相当有限。1399年事件则是亨利·博林布罗克利用理查德二世众叛亲离之机，实行武力篡位的结果，与反对专制统治追求民主宪政无关；这仍然属于传统意义上的改朝换代，并非所谓的"兰开斯特宪政革命"。

Some of the great dystopias of the past – I think of John Brunner's novels from the early 1970s– centered on what was then the alleged nightmare of overpopulation; but that was a modernist nightmare, and what we confront today is perhaps not a dystopia either, but rather a certainty lived in a rather different way and with a properly postmodern ambivalence; which at any rate distinctly forecloses the possibility of progress or of solutions.

一些过去的伟大的反乌托邦作品——我想到20世纪70年代约翰·布鲁纳的小说——曾集中描写当时公认的人口过剩的梦魇；但那是现代主义的梦魇，而我们今天所面对的也许不是反乌托邦的，而是以一种相当不同的方式实际经历的东西，带有真正的后现代的模糊性；它俨然排除了进步或解决的可能。

These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words which are intended to be insults-- beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, populace--exhibit, alas! Rather the fault of those who reign than the fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the fault of the disinherited.

那是一些阴惨的日子，因为即使是在那种暴乱中，总还有一定程度的法律，在那种决斗中还有着自杀的性质；并且，不幸的是，从穷棒子、乱民、暴民、群氓这些带谩骂意味的字眼中，人们体验到的往往是统治阶层的错误而不是受苦受难者的错误；是特权阶层的错误，而不是一无所有者的错误。

The crisis appears to be one of solvency rather than one of liquidity; banks, along with insurers of bonds and other securities, are undercapitalized and so, as I suggested last week, require a capital infusion rather than just a purchase of frozen assets.

这个危机似乎是一种偿付能力的危机而非流动性危机；银行，还有债券及其他证券的承保人，都面临着投资不足，因此就像我上周建议过，需要一种资本注入而非仅仅购买那些冻结的资产。

What is more ,while England itself substituted for those forms of recourse a procedure of appeal in the nineteenth century ,reserving a procedure analogous to cassation for limited class of case including , most importantly, recourse against the decisions of administrative authorities or tribunals ,in the United States of America the older English forms of recourse-including what is actually now called an 'appeal'to a 'Court of Appeals'-have been developed rather than replaced:for the purposes of this chapter ,therefore ,the American appeal is treated as a form of cassation rather than of appeal.

更多是什么，当英国本身在十九世纪中为依赖的那些表格替换了一个诉愿的程序时候，保留为最重要地包括对抗管理主管当局的决定的依赖或者法官席的情形的有限制班级就像是毁弃的一个程序，在美国的美国依赖的较年长的英文表格-包括什么现在实际上被称为'appeal'to 一'诉愿法院的-已经被发展而不愿代替了：为了这一个章节，因此，美国诉愿被当做一种毁弃的形式不愿诉愿。

Mao had always wanted to make China a moral community rather than a democratic state through a "people's democratic dictatorship," in which "people" is just a metaphysical collective noun rather than the citizen group with free right of expression_r and appeals to different interests as in today's sense, with Mao as the moral and political patriarch of a population of 800 million.

在促使中华人民共和国进行现代化转化的巨型经济试验——如"人民公社"和"大跃进"——中，由于国民经济政策方面的浮浅经验使他虽然热情高涨却不幸惨遭失败。

I can't say anything hurtful about anyone.

我不能说任何伤害人左右。

She was a short fat woman , garbed in a very tight , very gaudy red dress .

大冬天的，我们穿两件毛衣她却穿件短袖，不停地扇扇子，一个劲叫热。