A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
老鼠
Mouse
You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mineshaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.
你可以把一只老鼠扔到一千码深的矿井里;到达底部时,它受到轻微的震动,然后离开。一只老鼠死了,一个人受伤了,一匹马溅起水花。
I should be the last person to say anything against temptation, naturally, but we have a proverb down here ‘in baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse’.
当然,我是最不可能反对诱惑的人,但我们这里有句谚语:“用奶酪来引诱捕鼠器时,要给老鼠留点空间。”
A brick could be used to block a mouse hole. But something better that would not only block the hole physically, but also psychologically, would be to stuff a dead rat in the hole.
一块砖可以用来堵住一个老鼠洞。但更好的方法不仅是在身体上,而且在心理上,把一只死老鼠塞进洞里。
If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
如果一个人写的书比他的邻居好,讲道比他的邻居讲的好,捕鼠器比他的邻居做的好,即使他把房子盖在树林里,世界也会为他开辟一条平坦的道路。
Lock it away,” the half-man whispered. “You feel, after. Not now. Now you are a soldier. Now you do your duty for your pack. If you break, your Mouse will die, and you with him. Feel, after. Not now.
把它锁起来。”“你觉得,之后。不是现在。现在你是一名士兵。现在你要为你的背包尽你的责任。如果你摔坏了,你的老鼠就会死,你和他在一起。感觉,之后。不是现在。
This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
这只衣冠楚楚的小老鼠穿着可爱的衣服,说着有趣的话。我觉得在你家里养一只那样的老鼠是个好主意,所以现在我来看看它是什么样子的。
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
如果你在不公正的情况下保持中立,你就选择了压迫者的一边。如果大象的脚踩在老鼠的尾巴上,而你说你是中立的,老鼠不会欣赏你的中立。
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
哦,我的天哪,你能从网上买到什么关于头顶摄影。训练有素的类人猿只需花费相对适中的代价,用拳头敲一下鼠标,就能知道这个世界上发生了什么可怕的事情。
Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.
指向是一个我们都知道的隐喻。我们在这方面做了很多研究和测试,用鼠标做各种功能,比如剪切和粘贴,速度要快得多,所以它不仅更容易使用,而且更有效率。
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.
安全永远是一场猫捉老鼠的游戏,因为会有一些人在寻找零天奖励,有些人没有配置管理,没有漏洞管理,没有补丁管理。
That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
这就是现在人们在电脑上工作的情况。他们可以很容易地用鼠标把东西修好,然后把‘哦,有人在后面咳嗽;我们需要把它拿出来’——否则就会有人唱出不好的音符。那些都是最美好的时刻。
My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.
我后悔我年足球使我的嘴就像一只小老鼠,不敢说出来,因为有人告诉我你离开了经理的工作,董事长绝不干扰经理的决策或他的球队的表现。
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A mouse that removes the palm-nut that turns out to be the bait of a trap, would already have known that the palm-nut does not ripen on the ground.
如果一只老鼠把原来是陷阱诱饵的棕榈果拿走,它早就知道棕榈果在地面上不会成熟。
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
当人们嘲笑米老鼠时,那是因为他是如此的人性化;这就是他受欢迎的秘密。
The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
我们现在的形象是不可能让米老鼠保持的。我们只是…正常的人。
A mouse that wants to die goes to sniff the cat's nose.
一只想死的老鼠去闻猫的鼻子。
Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.
不要为了除掉老鼠而烧掉你的房子。
A wee mouse can creep under a great corn stack.
一只小老鼠可以爬到一大堆玉米下面。