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From all of these factoids Tenner manages to create a memorable mosaic, a big picture that illustrates how human progress is half a matter of striding and half of stumbling.

通过这些不断重复而让人信以为真的叙述，滕纳设法创造了一个难忘的精美画卷，一大幅描绘着由大踏步的前进和不断被错误跌倒所共同构成的人类进步历程的画卷。

14You must not put stumbling blocks in the way of those who do not follow the Path of the Wicca.

14你不能对那些不跟随现代巫术的人投以绊脚石。

That he can take on the wider world without stumbling in wide-eyed fashion.

他能应对这个辽阔的世界，不再干蹬着眼睛不知所措。

Mrs. Hooven went on, stumbling from street to street, holding hilda to her breast

何芬太太一直朝前走，跌跌冲冲地从这条街走到那条街，把希尔玛搂在胸前。

Whenever you are, lingering in bed and impunctuality are both stumbling stones in your career and you should remove them by learning to be on time, or even being ahead of schedule.

提交的译文除传递原文的实质内容以外，是否在表现形式上贴近原文，从而让读者从阅读过程本身得到与原文读者相当的体验，这是翻译质量的理想衡量标准。技术细节

With only two birds spotted in two centuries, you can imagine the thrill ornithologists got after stumbling upon a cache of almost 20 large-billed reed warblers last year in northeastern Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor of the Pamir Mountains, a sparsely populated area of the country.

只有两鸟在两个世纪里，你可以想象得到的鸟类在隐藏所中绊倒后大约20 large-billed里德苔莺去年阿富汗的Wakhan东北部的帕米尔高原山区的走廊，一个人烟稀少的地区的国家。

As the moon scudded across the warm sky toward midnight, Simon's steps grew heavier and heavier The lich-yard seemed to have no ending—indeed, the ground had begun to rise and fall over the gentle humps of the outer downs while he still walked among the weathered stone teeth, some solitary and upright, others leaning together like old men in senile colloquy He wove in and out among the buried pillars, stumbling across the uneven, tussocky ground Every step became a struggle, as though he waded in high waters

这温暖的夜空中，月亮渐渐地移向了午夜，Simon的脚步越来越沉重。这墓园，似乎没有尽头，总也走不完——实际上，在这远离城镇的丘陵上，这地面沿着那些并不陡峭的土堆，变得起伏不平，而他，不但要越过这些小土丘，还要绕过那些风化了的石头，这些石头，有的是单独竖立，有的则互相倾斜倚靠，象是默默交谈的老年人。他在这些埋在地上的墓碑间，绕进绕出，在这些坑坑洼洼、杂草丛生的地上，磕磕绊绊地走着。迈出的每一步，都那么艰难，就象是他在很深的水里跋涉着。

With children and smaller animals, it is often in the shape of the head and in the chaste unaccusing stare; with young girls and ponies, a certain stumbling awkwardness, a leggy inability to control their bodies.

对于孩童，魅力是其自然的流露，小动物也是这样，这从他们无邪的眼神中可以读出；而少女已经开始有尴尬的掩饰了，似乎小马也是这样。

With children and smaller animals, it is often in the shape of the head and in the chaste unaccusing stare; with young girls and ponies, a certain stumbling awkwardness, a leggy inability to control their bodies.

对于小孩和小动物来说，魅力从他们的思想及无邪的眼神中流露出来；年轻女孩和小马下意识地遮羞。

Once you make a choice in life, the unchosen alternatives evaporate," he says. According to Gilbert's earlier research, which he featured in his 2006 book, Stumbling on Happiness, when faced with an irrevocable decision, people are happier with the outcome than when they have the opportunity to change their minds."

他说：&一旦做出一个人生选择，没有被选中的其它选择就会消失&根据Gilbert早先研究--该研究出现在他的2006年的一本书《遇到快乐》中--当人们面临了不可反悔的决定时要比有机会改变主义时对结果更加快乐。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。