A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
优势
Advantage
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
利用世界的模糊性。看着某样东西,想想它可能是什么。
I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.
我不认为和老板睡觉会给你带来人们认为的好处。
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
当误解把别人当作一种优势时,一个人是无法使别人理解自己的。
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
它采用了对物种最有利或最方便的几何形状。
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
我想,即使死也有好处,因为这样我们就可以和一群凡夫俗子混在一起了。
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
坏记性的好处是,一个人第一次享受到几倍于以往的美好事物。
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
不要虚度任何一天,在这一天里,你只能等待轮到你的机会,只占你的一份,不占任何人的便宜。
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
很少有人敢否认节制在提高一个处于战争状态的国家的效率方面的好处。
A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.
最高法院对关塔那摩监狱进行司法审查的决定将消除这些优势。
I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
我宁愿把珠宝戴在头发上,也不愿到别的地方去。面部应该具有这种聪明才智的优势。
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
没有母亲愿意为了领土、经济利益和意识形态而牺牲自己的儿子。
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
不偏不倚——无法从支持争议双方中看出任何个人利益的希望。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.
这意味着最初你在另一台机器上有许多相同类型的产品只是稍好一点的游戏,而真正利用这台机器的游戏则会在稍后出现。
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
一个人要有一定程度的抱负,才能抓住那些显而易见的机会。
There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.
和所有国家一样,这里也有优点和缺点。
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
处于顶峰的东西必然会衰落。举手的必被打败。能利用敌人的疑虑在战斗中获胜的人是不可战胜的。
Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.
现在每个人都经历着很大的压力,不管你有多富有,有多少优势,这段时间每个人的生活都充满了压力。
One advantage women throughout time have had is that the little boy in men always remember a time when women were all-powerful.
一直以来,女性的一个优势是,男性身上的小男孩总是记得女性无所不能的时候。