A few hours later, he found a soft place in the ground. He placed his head against an old fallen tree and slept.
几小时后,他在地上找了一块柔软的地方,将头靠在一棵倒着的老树上睡着了。The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle.
她见到一群小动物和小鸟都守在外边,那只可怜的小壁虎--比尔在中间,由两只豚鼠扶着,从瓶子里倒着东西喂它。He is puzzlingly enchanted with a bit of film shot when Flannery was 5, displaying a chicken she had "taught" to walk backward.
他莫名其妙地迷上了弗兰纳里5岁时的一个电影短片,展示她“教会”一只鸡倒着走路。Just as a liar is unable to reverse the order of events in a falsehood, he also has trouble adjusting when one component is disproven.
正如撒谎的人没办法倒着讲述一个谎话,当证明不了某句话时,同样地他也没办法调整过来。When he crawled on the rug, he crawled backward, as if he were in reverse and couldn't change gears.
当他在小地毯上爬时,他倒着爬,好像他被弄反了,又转不过来。I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.
我认为不是诚实让他们垮下的,象我一样老时,如果是螃蟹要学会倒着走路。Purposely ignoring the obvious is like walking backwards toward the enemy.
22.故意忽略显而易见的事就像倒着向敌人走去Those primed with feelings of power were much more likely to draw the letter backwards, at least when seen by another person.
那些受权力感刺激的受试者非常容易倒着画出E,至少给对面人看是倒的。A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
一个人的性格就像一节离合体或亚历山大体诗歌--把它顺着读,倒着读,或斜着读,拼出的字都是一样。