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2018-11-17 L171

2018-11-17 L171

作者: Berry521 | 来源:发表于2018-11-17 13:56 被阅读1次

    As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

    我们渴望赞许,同样也害怕受到指责。

    If somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes.

    学生的父亲凑巧是那种穿着宽肩膀衣服和粗俗的黑白两色鞋的人。

    Wage control is the cornerstone of the government’s economic policy.

    Oh how I hate the cramped quarters and dry, stale air on airplanes.

    If you find yourself resenting your job because you can‘t afford to quit, it may be time to prepare what one career counselor humorously calls a “cyanide capsule.”

    These changes in the law are purely cosmetic and do nothing to deal with the real problem.

    The float was little more than a cosmetic exercise designed to show that structural reforms had worked, even though it raised nothing like enough to meet capital needs.

    If you describe measures or changes as cosmetic, you mean they improve the appearance of a situation or thing but do not change its basic nature, and you are usually implying that they are inadequate.

    The population at that time was following a pretty unhealthy diet that was not just bad for animals, but also very bad for our coronary arteries.

    彼时人们只是盲从非常不健康的饮食习惯,这不仅对动物很糟糕,对于我们的冠状动脉等器官亦如此。

    Whether corporal punishment is an active form for students' good behavior remains a contentious topic.

    But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift.

    但是在这些无法选择之中,我们的确可以选择自己的生活方式:是勇敢无畏,还是胆小怯弱,是光明磊落,还是厚颜无耻,是目标坚定还是随波逐流。

    But these measures rarely succeed: investors swiftly discover alternative ways to deploy their cash

    it is said that industry has transformed the satisfying and creative tasks of artisan into the mechanical and dehumanizing routine of the assembly line.

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