Evolutionary forces at workWHEN two drunken men fight over a woman, alcohol and stupidity may not be the only things at work.
两个醉汉为了一个女人大打出手,也许不单单出自酒精和愚蠢,进化的力量不容抹杀。Years of living in New York City had trained me: The distress you hear is nothing serious. It's only a drunk or a bum .
在纽约居住多年的经历训练了我,你所听到的根本没什么大不了的,那只是个醉汉或游民。for it was Monday morning; and it had been tenanted by six drunken people, who had been locked up, elsewhere, since Saturday night.
眼下是星期一上午,打星期六夜里开始,这里关过六个醉汉,现在都关到别的地方去了。This prophet talks like a drunken man. . . but I cannot suffer the sound of his voice.
这个先知的话像个醉汉,我受不了他的说话声。A drunken man who smelled like a beer sat down on a subway seat next to a priest.
一个浑身散发啤酒味的醉汉坐在地铁的椅子上,旁边是位牧师。If my words make you drunk, then drink them as much as you can; be a drunkard, because this champagne is going to transform you totally.
如果我的话语让你产生醉意,那么,开怀畅饮吧;成为一个醉汉,因为这香槟将令你脱胎换骨。There's a drunkard standing out on the street corner, and a cop passes by and says, "What do you think you're doing? "
一个醉汉站在马路拐角。一人警察走过,问他:“你这是在干什么?”Even the bull seemed to feel sorry for him, for it looked on sympathetically until the drunk was out of the way.
好象连牛也在为他感到遗憾,因为它一直同情地看着醉汉,直到他的背影消逝。Ture, all this planning becames moot when the 40-minute trip takes two hours because of a track fire and a wino who gets caught in the door?
老实说,如果半路遇上火灾或遭遇倒在门里的醉汉,40分钟的行程就得花两个小时,原先的这些计划都得泡汤。