A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
优势
Advantage
Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.
有时候,我们中的一个人会在家里即兴演奏一段或几句低音,但当我们在一起的时候,它真的会凝固起来。当我们在一起的时候,我们真的有一种强烈的特殊的化学反应。
The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.
我们的优势在于主场,如果我们不能在这场比赛中激励自己,那么我们就不能在任何比赛中激励自己。我想观众也会支持的。
That kind of surprised me, because they usually make you beat them. But we were able to take advantage of what they were giving us. That's a good sign, because we did the same thing last year, too.
这让我很惊讶,因为他们通常让你打败他们。但是我们能够利用他们给我们的东西。这是一个好迹象,因为我们去年也做了同样的事情。
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。
The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.
集体谈判的唯一健全办法是拟订一项协议,阐明当事各方的权利和责任,确立原则,并使所有有关各方都能受益。
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
在我们从好望角出发的航程中,风主要是从西风吹来的,天气非常炎热,但是一年中的这个季节比夏季有一个很大的优点,那就是没有雾。
That's just a situation where you're looking to take advantage of their aggressiveness. One time in a hundred it may work and today it saved us a run right there. It may not work again the rest of the season but it did today.
这只是一种你想利用他们侵略性的情况。百分之一的时间它可能会起作用,而今天它正好帮我们省了一分。在本赛季余下的时间里,它可能不会再发挥作用,但今天它发挥了作用。
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
当然,我们将认识到,人类本性科学的每一项进步,迟早都会直接或间接地促进我们成功地控制人类本性,并将其改变为有利于共同福祉。
I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
我小时候喜欢解开锁链。我的手指又细又忙,我从未放弃过。也许我的注意力集中有精神方面的原因,但就像我的许多精神损伤一样,这对每个人都有好处。
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.
我认为在很大程度上,我们是神圣的伙伴,在这个叫做历史的事业中。这是一种持续的关系,而且绝对不能保证事情会自动地向我们最好的方向发展。
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
在我成长的过程中,与这家公司以及其他公司的最高管理层关系密切,我有一个优势,那就是看到首席执行官们开始相信自己是绝对正确的。这让我很害怕。
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
法律是一种灵巧的风俗习惯的混合体,这些风俗习惯有益于社会,即使没有法律存在,也可以遵循;而另一些风俗习惯则有利于统治少数人,但对大多数人有害,只能通过恐怖手段强加于他们。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
杂乱无章的好处之一就是你总能有惊人的发现。
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.
有必要利用刚果已经发生的变化,无论这种变化将带来多么悲惨的后果。
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
电脑不能代替判断,就像铅笔不能代替识字一样。但是不用铅笔写作并没有什么特别的优势。
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.
的确,正如上面的计算所示,为了充分利用可用的内存空间,最终的笔记本电脑必须将所有的物质转化为能量。