Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

膏,v。当前位置给已经够狡猾的国王或其他重要官员上油。

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When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

我们什么时候才能说癌症治愈了?我不确定什么时候会发生,是否会发生,因为癌症是一种非常棘手的疾病,它涉及到体内大量的细胞,这些细胞在不断地变异。

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.

在这十年的中期,我们意识到我们有一个伟大的团队,我们可以做伟大的事情,我们可能在这里有一些东西,我们相信我们有机会达到伟大。

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

因此,对钦定版,甚至是修订版,宣称无误,就等于对那些从未宣称无误的人宣称无误。

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

通过充满激情地相信一些还不存在的东西,我们创造了它。不存在是我们没有足够渴望的东西。

Anoint a villain and he will prick you, prick a villain and he will anoint you.

膏恶人,他就刺你;刺恶人,他就膏你。

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

当上国王,在波斯波利斯凯旋而过,难道不勇敢吗?

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

伟人的缺点是蠢人的安慰。