We often say there are no places left on the earth where the foot of man has not trodden.

我们常说,地球上没有任何地方是绝无人迹的。

I had scarcely passed my twelfth birthday when I entered the inhospitable regions of examnation.

我刚满十二岁,就卷入了令人头痛的考试中。

There will be no heroics in war where the sagest place will be the front line, if there is any , and the most dangerous the houses of our civilian population.

在一场以前线最为安全(如果有什么前线的话),以平民房屋最为危险的战争中,是谈不上什么英雄行为的。

 

I got thinking that if I sliced about half an incn off the end with a sharp knife, mother might never notice it.

我想如果我用锋利的小刀从末尾切下一小块,可能妈妈不会注意到。

 

I believe, because of my religious faith, that I shall return to Father in an afterlife that is beyond description.

由于我的宗教信仰,我相信我将回到天父身边度过难以描述的重生。

 

Last night I heard him driving his pigs to market.

昨晚我听到他一直大声打鼾。

 

It was an old ragged moon.

这是一轮残缺的下弦月。

 

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Deep throat 深喉

The Chinese “silicon Valley” 中国硅谷

Yppie 雅皮

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