对付过去

Indeed, the problem of dealing with boredom may be even more difficult for such a future mass society than it was for aristocracies.

确实， 与过去的贵族相比，对于这样一个未来的大众社会来说，对付无聊的问题可能更为困难得多。

Old-fashioned seeds are actually better at dealing with variable weather—but are now less widely used. Reinstituting their use will mean less food.

过去的种子在对付多变气候方面其实更有效，但却不被大范围采用，重新研究它们的用处却又会导致粮食短缺。

If the Ulster hotheads like Ian Paisley had had their way and kept the Catholics down in the slums, their birthrate over the past 30 years would have been much higher and they'd be ready to stage a Kosovo-style "majority rule" coup like the Albanians did against the Serbs, complete with the USAF blowing up every television tower in Belfast like we did to the ones in Belgrade, just to teach those Serbs a lesson:"No TV till you let your little Albanian brother have Kosovo!"

假如像ian paisley那种俄斯特的狂人得逞的话，天主教将会被压到贫民区里，他们过去30年的出生率就会高好多，他们就可开始一场科索沃式的大多数人主政的政变，就像阿尔巴尼亚人对塞尔维亚人做的一样，甚至还有美国空军如对付贝尔格莱德一样去炸掉贝尔法斯特的每一座电视塔，以教训塞尔维亚人这样一课，&在你们没把科索沃让给你们的阿尔巴尼亚小兄弟之前不许看电视！&

But it was a decade before the superpower found a new organising principle for its policy: the September 11th 2001 attacks put America on a more or less permanent war footing against terrorism, mainly its radical Islamist variety.

但是，在这个超级大国为它的政策找到一个新的组织原则之前，十年过去了：2001年9月11日的多起袭击把美国置于或多或少具有长久意义的反恐战争当中，主要是对付各种激进的穆斯林组织。

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。