A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
等效
Equivalent
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
我父亲认为在山里散步相当于去做礼拜。
The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.
个人的健康状况相当于结肠的健康状况。
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
一个伟大天才的出现,胜过一百个平庸之辈的诞生。
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
每一次逆境、每一次失败、每一次心痛,都孕育着同等或更大的益处。
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
不幸的是,西方文明并没有把知识和道德联系起来,而是把知识和权力联系起来,使它们相等。
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
人们指责我支持全球化。这相当于指责我赞成早晨太阳升起。
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
这一法案在立法上相当于漏洞。它会产生短期高点,但会对系统造成长期损害,而且启动成本很高。
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.
我认为自己在文学上就像一个熟练的车工,或者编织篮子的工人;一个陶艺家,也许:我做一些人们想买的稍微有趣的东西。
To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
在敦提向一名男子扔鞋,相当于在伦敦亲吻他的脸颊和拥抱。邓迪是一个非常不同的地方;他们有自己的规则。
I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
我本来只是一个茶水男孩,或者类似的人,但我很快就宣布,我想成为一名外国记者,我很天真,但也很雄心勃勃。