A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

蛋糕是对烤箱的一个很好的测试:如果蛋糕的一边焦了，而另一边焦了，这不是你的错——你需要检查一下你的烤箱。

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

骆驼是由委员会设计的马。

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

蜡烛点燃另一根不会失去任何东西。

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

每天都有一辆车来接我，还有一把写着我名字的椅子，每个人都很有礼貌……你能做什么，除了坐下来看这一切，试着把这一切都看完?

A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

我应该至少选一个。但我一直很害怕。我从来就不是舞池里的舞者，即使是在酒吧或俱乐部。

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

新闻业的职业生涯突然失去了吸引力。

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

职业生涯是一系列的起起落落，或起起落落。

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

事业是美好的，但你不能在寒冷的夜晚就放弃它。

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

无忧无虑的品质是我永远无法理解的生活的全部。我想我从来没有无忧无虑过，看不到其中的乐趣。

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

对原子物理学中观测过程的仔细分析表明，亚原子粒子作为孤立的实体没有任何意义，只能理解为实验准备与后续测量之间的相互联系。

A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.

愤怒之下的绝望之毯。

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

漫画家不用任何输入就创造了他的整个宇宙。

A casement high and triple-arched there was, All garlanded with carven imag’ries Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth’s deep-damasked wings.

那儿有一扇三拱顶的高窗，所有的窗子上都装饰着雕刻过的水果、鲜花、一簇簇结草，镶着镶着奇特图案的玻璃的钻石，无数的污渍和华丽的染料，就像虎蛾的深缎翅膀一样。

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

漫步于疯人院，你会发现信仰并不能证明任何事情。

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

猫可以在你的膝盖上保持一种蜷缩睡意的姿势，直到你几乎站起来。直到最后一分钟，她还希望你问心无愧，重新安定下来。