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Although Bowra's "Buggery was invented to pass the awkward hour between evensong and cocktails" is rather brilliant. And I also like "Awful shit, never met him".

我喜欢的一句是："太遗憾了（译者注：英文原文的另一重意思是'恶心的家伙'），从没有见过他(Awful shit， never met him)。"

Almost instantly, he found he could afford a Buick, rather than one of those smaller economy cars.

几乎马上他就发现他买得起别克汽车了，不再需要开那些较小的经济型轿车。

Begin to build your confidence, and work through problems rather than avoid them.

开始建立自己的信心，并通过问题的工作，而不是避开它们。

Therefore, rather than dynamically building queries in your code, you can take advantage of the reuse and performance benefits of stored procedures.

因此，作为动态的在代码中创建查询的替代，你能够得到存储过程的重用和性能优势。

Bull; Speaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton who obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile camplainee.

bull；致巴达：这是一个饱经沧桑的傻子发出的声音，他其实更愿做个柔弱而孩子气的诉苦人。

He flows with the changing landscape, rather than trying to bulldoze it.

他随着变化着的世界流动，而不是想法冲撞这个世界。

If I die in Pakistan, it should be because of traffic accidents, rather than bombs or bullets.

如果我死在巴基斯坦，那应该是因为交通意外，而不是炸弹或子弹。

But this is tactical, rather than strategic, bullishness.

但这样带来的只是战术牛市，而不是战略牛市。

The art of fiction, as Jane Austen knew it, declined from her through Scott, and Bulwer, and Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte, and Thackeray, and even George Eliot, because the mania of romanticism had seized upon all Europe, and these great writers could not escape the taint of their time; but it has shown few signs of recovery in England, because English criticism, in the presence of the Continental masterpieces, has continued provincial and special and personal, and has expressed a love and a hate which had to do with the quality of the artist rather than the character of his work.

jane的小说技巧，在她之后就开始没落了，Scott， and Bulwer， and Dickens， and Charlotte Bronte， and Thackeray， and even George Eliot(这些都是Jane之后的作家，你可以在金山上查到详细的资料)都没怎么采用她的风格，因为欧洲人骨子里有着狂热的浪漫主义，而这些伟大的作家也没有能够摆脱他们时代的感染。在英国，也没有什么恢复的迹象，面对着欧洲大陆上的伟大作品，英国的评论依然本土化，特殊化，个人化，他们对于作家表现出了强烈的爱，憎，而不是对于他们的作品人物。

Frank Bruni, who covered his election campaign for the New York Times, wrote in 2002 that "the Bush I knew was part scamp and part bumbler, a timeless fraternity boy and heedless cutup, a weekday gym rat and weekend napster." And the then governor of Texas presented himself as a centrist—a new kind of "compassionate conservative", a "uniter rather than a divider", an advocate of a "humble" and restrained foreign policy.

在纽约时报为他撰写竞选特稿的弗兰克·布鲁尼，在2002年曾写道："我所知的布什是个时而顽皮时而木讷，长不大的兄弟会男孩，不拘小节的"小丑"，周中他是健生狂，而周末又是个音乐迷"之后这位前德州州长将自己展示为一位中间派，"富有同情心的保守党人"的一种新类别，一位"团结者而非分裂者"，一位"谦逊"克制外交政策的支持者。

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。