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指定
Designated
I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.
我不喜欢指定击球手。一个打球的人应该有接球和击球的能力。
Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.
老三垒手成为一垒手,老一垒手成为指定打击手。
I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
我寻求一个更深层次的真理,但我不认为我必须去一个指定的礼拜场所才能找到它。
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
保守派呼吁的价值观不可避免地会被那些被指定将其付诸实践的个人所讽刺。
The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.
指定司机程序,这不是一个理想的工作。但如果你被卷入其中,把它们送到错误的地方。
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
当提到自由时,我们必须始终谨慎地观察,这是不是真正的主张个人利益,从而被指定。
I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.
我七岁开始工作,从那时起我就一直在攒钱买房。甚至在那之前,我就有一个果酱罐专门用来装公寓的钱。
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
很明显,在罗马开始她的征服生涯的那个被称为国王统治时期,在那个时期和那个国家,她是一个伟大而富有的城市。
I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.
我甚至不喝酒!我不能忍受酒精的味道。每年除夕我都要喝一杯,每次都觉得恶心。所以我不沾酒——我一直是指定司机。
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
许多人相信——我也相信——我是上帝派来做这项工作的。尽管我老了,我不想放弃它;我出于对上帝的爱而工作,我把所有的希望都寄托在他身上。
The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
指定司机项目的问题是,这不是一个理想的工作。但如果你曾经沉迷其中,那就尽情享受吧。然后晚上把他们送到错误的房子。
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form...the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wanted-they come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.
有一种正式的诗,只有在形式上才完美……音节的数量,指定的和需要的重音,如果需要押韵,这些都与填字游戏的技巧有关。
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I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.
我想知道为什么这么多年后棒球界还有一个指定的击球手?作为一个实验,这似乎是一个非常棒的想法,但你可能会认为这种新奇感现在已经消失了,每个人都会重新开始打棒球。
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
一个人如果对人类有整体的同情,对人类未来的进步有信心,愿意为人类进步的伟大事业服务,就不应该被称为人道主义者,而应该被称为人道主义者,他的信条可以被称为人道主义。
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
另一方面,和平作为一门科学、一门艺术的实现还处于起步阶段。但是,我们可以追溯它的成长,它的稳步进步,总有一天会有特定的个人被指定为这场运动的负责人和领导者。