A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

一个球从我的身体和支撑他的右臂之间穿过，穿过他的袖子，从一个肩膀传到另一个肩膀。没有什么可为他做的了，我让他去休息。我从来没有把袖子上的洞补好。

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.

偶尔的一首歌谣不会出错。

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

银行是这样一个地方，他们在晴天借给你一把伞，然后在开始下雨的时候再要回来。

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

障碍是观念，而不是事物。

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

棒球比赛只不过是一场分为九局的精神崩溃。

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

棒球教练是不可避免的恶魔。

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

棒球挥杆是一种调得很好的乐器。这就是重复，再重复，然后再重复一点。

A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.

这里有一个基本的道德要求。如果你能保护一个孩子，你就必须这样做。

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

贝斯手必须像贝斯手一样思考和演奏。鼓手必须像鼓手一样演奏，像鼓手一样思考，远离声乐家。吉他手必须尊重其他人。

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

低音应该听起来像一个低音与重击的手指对木材，就像它开始站起来。

A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

被殴妻子是指离婚前已婚的妇女。或者直到她杀了那个混蛋。

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

电池的定义是电池的集合。细胞是一罐化学物质。现在的挑战是把一个高能量的电池，以及大量的电池，安全地组合成一个大电池。

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

一场输了或赢了的战争很容易描述、理解和欣赏，但一个伟大国家的道德成长需要反思和观察，才能欣赏它。

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

赢得的战争是我们不会承认失败的战争。

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

野兽不知道自己是野兽，人越接近野兽，就越不知道自己是野兽。