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For example. If I were to touch a hot coal, an unwelcoming burning sensation would trigger a signal in my brain telling me to drop it, and the next time given the opportunity, I would not touch another red coal again.

举个简单的例子，当我触碰一块燃烧着的煤球时，那种可恶的灼痛感会向我的大脑发送一个信号让我去丢掉它，那么以后当我再次面对这种红热的煤球时，我就绝不会再贸然伸出我的手臂。

Marcus did not seem suitable, being at the time but eighteen years of age; and Hadrian chose for adoption Antoninus Pius, the uncle-in law of Marcus, with the provision that Pius should in turn adopt Marcus and that Marcus should adopt Lucius Commodus.32 And it was on the day that Verus33 was adopted that he dreamed that he had shoulders of ivory, and when he asked if they were capable of bearing a burden, he found them much stronger than before.

马尔库斯看来不很适当，因为那时他还不满十八岁，于是哈德良收养了安东尼。皮乌斯，马尔库斯的叔父，并规定皮乌斯收养马尔库斯而马尔库斯收养卢修斯。康茂德（32）。而且就在维鲁斯被收养那天，他梦到他有象牙的肩膀（33），当被问到它们能否承受负担时，他发现它们比以前强壮。

And whereas the said late King James the Second having abdicated the government and the throne being thereby vacant, his Highness the prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious instrument of delivering this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power) did (by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and divers principal persons of the Commons) cause letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Protestants, and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs and cinque ports, for the choosing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this year one thousand six hundred eighty and eight , in order to such an establishment as that their religion, laws and liberties might not again be in danger of being subverted, upon which letters elections having been accordingly made

鉴于不久前詹姆斯二世王放弃王位，因此空缺，奥兰治亲王殿下（他做了一件让万能的上帝高兴的事情，通过光荣的方式令王国从天主教与专制的权力下走出来）（在教会高级神职人员和贵族，以及各种普通民众重要人员的建议下）召集新教教会高级神职人员和贵族的上院代表，以及几个郡，城市，大学，自由市镇，和港口同盟的通过合法的选举有权代表他们参加国会的下院代表，于1688年1月22日在威斯敏斯特集会，为了他们的诸如宗教信仰，法律，和自由的建立不再处于被颠覆的危险之中，这些在召集信中已经得到说明。

The open sea was deep and mysterious, and anyone who gave more than a passing thought to the bottom confines of the oceans probably assumed that the sea bed was flat. Sir James Clark Ross had obtained a sounding of over 2,400 fathoms in 1839, but it was not until 1869, when H.M.S. Porcupine was put at the disposal of the Royal Society for several cruises, that a series of deep soundings was obtained in the Atlantic and the first samples were collected by dredging the bottom.

无边无际的海洋深邃而又神秘，凡是稍稍想过大海海底的人大概都会认为海底是平坦的。1839年，詹姆斯·克拉克·罗斯爵士曾测得海水深度超过2，400英寻；但直到1869年，皇家学会用英国&豪猪&号舰艇进行了几次巡航后，才在大西洋测得一个个海水深度，同时通过挖掘海底，取得了研究海底的首批样品。

All I had in t he world,my rings,my watch,my little money,for a coach;or,if one were not to be got,I would go on foot to Hampstead that night,though I walked it by myself.

我所有的全部，我的戒指、我的表、我的一点钱都用来雇马车；否则的话，如果找不到别人，我会在那晚上走到汉普斯蒂德，尽管是我一个人走。

I am sure after a few weeks of adaptation and familiarization I will have no difficulty in functioning on a daily basis in an English speaking society or in participating fully in graduate studies.

在大学的三年的学习生活不仅给予我自身的充实，更重要的是磨练和培养了我较强的自觉能力和严谨，踏实的作风以及不怕困难的精神，对未来充满了信心！

As the first volcanoes erupted, one of the gases that bellowed out was steam.

在第一批火山喷发时，喷出的气体之一就是水蒸汽。