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Those with addictive personalitiesmay find that the sites have the potential to bring out the worstin them, possibly even making other addictions stronger. It's a problem that can be especially dangerous in a countrylike Ireland, Ruairi McKiernan of health website Spunout.iesaid, because "young people in Ireland are generally gregariousand sociable, and social networking sites are an extension ofthis".

那些生性容易上瘾的人会发现这些网站能诱使他们暴露出性格中最糟糕的一面，甚至还有可能致使他们的其他癖好变得更加强烈。

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

"（"通观历史，你会发现，如果一个国家的大权，正好落入某个半吊子哲学家或者文学癖好者手中，那么，这样的统治者对国家造成的灾难，将无与伦比。

He was dressed, according to his wont, like an incroyable, and resembled an antique portrait by Garat.

他身上，依照他的癖好，穿一身"荒唐少年"的服装，活象加拉①的古老画像。

Used interjectionally in informal speech often to emphasize a word or phrase (as in "He was, like, gorgeous") or for an apologetic, vague, or unassertive effect as in "I need to, like, borrow some money"

至于停顿的理由，可以是想强调后面要讲的内容，可以是暂时找不到合适的词来表达，也可以是某些事难以启齿，或者干脆就是有不良癖好，习惯把like当逗号来使用。

Mr Ganguli and his wife find their children becoming strangers to them—revelling in American pop culture and embarrassed by the Bengali community's idiosyncratic ways.

阿索科和妻子感受到孩子和他们的距离越来越远—整日沉迷于美国的大众文化，并且因孟加拉人有特殊的癖好而感到羞耻。

Pica can be dangerous to dogs, with a risk from eating dirt near roads that existed prior to the phaseout of tetra-ethyl lead in gasoline or prior to the cessation of the use of contaminated oil (either used, or containing toxic PCBs) to settle dust.

异食癖好对犬只来说是非常危险的，路边的污物可能含有有毒物质，如多氯联苯。

His other fixations are no more easily understood.

他其他的癖好也是不太容易理解的。

I've heard of unusual hobbies, but I've never heard of collecting umbrellas.

我倒是听说过一些罕见的癖好，但是我还从没听说过收集伞的。

For most of the 20th century the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the brainier, sexier, trendier of the two: its suburbs and freeways, its fads and foibles, its marvellous miscegenation have spread around the world.

几乎整个20世纪，硅谷和好莱坞一直都是加州人才培养、性感及时尚潮流的家园。它的城乡发展、道路建设、时尚、癖好以及多种族通婚影响了全世界。

Perhaps some deeprooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.

说不定在他们内心深处仍然隐伏着多少世代前祖先的习性和癖好，叫这些彷徨者再回到他们祖先在远古就已离开的土地。

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。