Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

膏,v。当前位置给已经够狡猾的国王或其他重要官员上油。

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When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

我们什么时候才能说癌症治愈了?我不确定什么时候会发生,是否会发生,因为癌症是一种非常棘手的疾病,它涉及到体内大量的细胞,这些细胞在不断地变异。

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

我不能同意我这必死无疑的躯体将被埋葬在一个为皇帝或国王准备的宝库中。我的共和情怀和原则禁止我这样做。

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

我爸爸曾经是个演员……我的父亲不仅是个演员,他的父亲也是个演员,我的曾祖父也是个演员。在那之前谁知道呢?

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

因此,对钦定版,甚至是修订版,宣称无误,就等于对那些从未宣称无误的人宣称无误。

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

通过充满激情地相信一些还不存在的东西,我们创造了它。不存在是我们没有足够渴望的东西。

Anoint a villain and he will prick you, prick a villain and he will anoint you.

膏恶人,他就刺你;刺恶人,他就膏你。

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

所以,如果你想做伟大的运动,密歇根是你的理想之地。