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那小猫爬到树上却不敢下来。 The little cat climbed to the top of the tree and became afraid to get down.
尽管他大声喊叫，却没有人来帮助他。 Despite his cries no one came to his assistance.
他肯定是喝多了，当他要站起来时，却摔倒在地上。 He must have drunk too much; when he tried to stand up, he keeled over.
沿海地区的冬天天气暖和，可是相比之下中部平原却异常寒冷。 The coastal areas have mild winters, but by contrast the central plains become extremely cold.
我在街上遇到她，可是当我向她微笑时，她却连招呼都没有向我打一个。 I passed her in the street but she didn't even acknowledge me when I smiled.
现在就想回去，为了冷却他那急切的心，暂把他送到法国的哥哥家中。 Now he wanted to go back, but to damp down the urge he was sent to his brother's home in France.
他向新闻记者讲了这次谈话的情况，却不愿把实况录音磁带放给他们听。 He told the newspapermen about the conversation, but would not play them the actual tape of it.
她的考试成绩令人失望，但却装出若无其事的样子。 Her exam result was disappointing but she tried to put a brave face on it.
吉姆在物理考试中作弊却逃避了惩罚, 麦克则受到责备。 Jim got away with cheating in the physics test, while Mike was scolded.
我们赢得了合同，但是却经过了多次不屈不挠的谈判才达到目的。 We won the contract but only through a lot of tough negotiating.
这世上有些人把整个时间花费于搜寻正义，却腾不出时间来付诸实践。 Some folks in this world spend their whole time hunting after righteousness and can not find any time to practice it.
我们（各处）找了半天, 却找不到那本书. We searched (around) for hours, but couldn't find the book.
一谈到别的事情时，他们的记性并不是很好，但他们却记得彗星。 Their memory wasn't very good when it came to recalling other things, but they remembered the comet.
虽然他严格，却富有同情心。 Stern as he is, he is full of sympathy.
可以逼人服从, 却无法逼人生爱. You can compel obedience, but not affection.
他到了渡口，却发现渡船在对岸。 He went down to the ferry but found the boat on the other side.
你在夜晚可以看到星星，白天却看不到。 You can see stars by night, but not by day.
我算是放了暑假了, 但却未能真正休息. I had a kind of/sort of holiday in the summer but I couldn't really relax.
他的设想很好, 但实行起来却糟糕透顶. His original idea was good, but his execution of the scheme was disastrous.
他们装出信心十足的样子却欺骗不了任何人。 Their assumptions of an air of confidence fooled nobody.
她尽管很想再见到他, 但却不愿给他回信. Despite wanting to see him again, she refused to reply to his letters.
他一方面受到批评，另一方面却受到鼓励。 He has been criticized on one hand and encouraged on the other.
这两样东西外表相同，但本质上却不样。 The two things are the same in outward form but different in essence.
他确实是想帮忙，然而事实上却只是帮倒忙。 No doubt he means to help, but in fact he just get in the way.
我们尽可谈论美的事物，然而美本身却是抽象的。 We may talk of beautiful things, but beauty itself is abstract.
他说他是位医生，但后来却发现他是个骗子。 He said he was a doctor, but it subsequently emerged that he was an impostor.
我不住地看手表，他却一个劲儿地讲个没完，他不能领会暗示。 I kept looking at my watch, but he just continued talking: he can't take a hint.
她要求赞助却遭到粗暴拒绝。 Her request for a donation met with a rude repulse.
这些被警察抓住的犯罪分子只是些小鱼，他们的头子却跑掉了。 These criminals arrested by the police are only minnows, their leader has escaped.
她穿着睡衣上班却不觉羞耻。 She's quite shameless about wearing pajamas at work.
他的确有一副严肃的脸孔，但内心却是很富幽默感。 Indeed he has a solemn face, but he is very humorous at heart.
他虽然啃着苹果，但却很留神地监视着她的每一个动作。 Munching the apple as he was, he had an eye for all her movements.
我们作了一次战略性退却，以便我们能积蓄力量再次进攻。 We made a strategic withdrawal, so that we could build up our forces for a renewed attack.
【谚】玫瑰好看却有刺。 Roses have thorns.
当时他不必来。（但却来了） He need not have come. (But he came.)
我瞄准了目标射击，但却打在了墙上。 I aimed at the target but hit the wall.
他至少也该来道个别（然而却没来）。 He should at least have come to say good-by.
小偷被逮住了，但他的同伙却逃之夭夭。 The thief was arrested, but his confederate escaped.
她热爱自己的家庭, 但家庭却是她事业的累赘. She loves her family, but they're a drag on her career.
该国南部大雨滂沱而北部却滴雨未落. The heavy rain missed the north of the country altogether, and the south copped the lot.
那项新政策尽管受到强烈抨击却硬是采用了. The new policy was adopted in the teeth of fierce criticism.
那天天气很好，我原本不必带伞的（但却带了）。 It was fine that day, so I need not have brought an umbrella with me.
他采取双重标准: 自己可以有外遇, 女方却不行. He's got a double standard: it's all right for him to have affairs but not for her.
我花了５０英镑在商场上买了一件所谓的便宜瓷器，结果却是一文不值。我只得把此事引以为训。 I paid fifty pounds in the market for a so-called bargain piece of porcelain which turned out to be worthless; I'll just have to chalk it up to experience.
不需水的，如一冷却系统 Not requiring water, as a cooling system.
即使他失败了，却仍然用功念书。 He studied none the less hard because he had failed.
我们正要去度假，他却偏偏摔断了腿。 He must needs break a leg just before we go on holiday.
尽管他的祖父是贵族，他却非常穷困。 Although his grandfather was a nobleman, he was very poor.
昨日有十二小时的晴天, 预报却说仍有雨. We had twelve hours of sunshine yesterday, as against a forecast of continuous rain.
直接法虽不见得是最简单的，但却是最普通的机器翻译方法。 The direct approach is the most common, though not always the simplest, method of computer translation.
蒸汽冷却时凝结成水。 Steam condenses into water when cooling down.
他虽然如此年轻，却很慎重。 Young as he was, he was prudent.
我虽然很喜欢她，却不打算娶她。 Much as I like her, I won't marry her.
她尽管受了伤却没有失去生存的毅力. Despite her injuries, she hasn't lost the will to live.
水加热则成为蒸汽，冷却则成为冰。 Water is changed into steam by heat and into ice by cold.
我们本可以收割完, 但却遇上了暴风雨. We should have finished harvesting, but a storm intervened.
她说她很难过, 但从她的眼神里却流露出她内心的喜悦. She said she was sorry, but her eyes betrayed her secret delight.
有时候他的演说很成功，有时候却大出洋相，当众出丑。 Sometimes he is a successful speaker, but sometimes he lays an egg.
我工作时间是别人的两倍，可拿的钱却比谁都少，我感到十分委屈。 I felt very hard done by when I got less money than anybody else, and I'd worked twice as long.
该项目极佳, 但地方舆论却表示反对. The project seems excellent, but local opinion is against it.
她受聘虽说是临时性的, 但却是一大成功. Her appointment was a significant, (al)though/albeit temporary success.
他卑鄙地剥削穷人，要他们为他工作，却短付工资。 He dishonorably exploited the poor by making them work for less pay.
尽管计划度假时兴致勃勃, 而到头来假日本身却颇为扫兴. The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.
他虽然表面上很有礼貌地同他同事打招呼，但心里却充满了妒忌。 He greeted his companion politely enough, but inside he was smouldering with jealousy.
只要有更短而又直接通往灭亡的大道，这世上就可省却不少悲哀与忧愁的吧。 If there only some shorter and more direct route to the devil, it would save an awful lot of sorrow and anxiety in this world.
她尽管遇到许多挫折，却仍然不气馁。 Despite all these discouragements, she refused to give up.
虽然他是懦夫，却无法忍受这样的侮辱。 Coward as he is (=Though he is a coward), he can't bear such an insult.
那囚犯挣扎著（要摆脱那些逮他的人）, 却未能逃脱. The prisoner struggled (against his captors) but couldn't escape.
冷却装置使…冷却或使…保持冷却的装置、容器或房间 A device, container, or room that cools or keeps cool.
老天爷好像成心捉弄人，很多人前来看比赛却偏偏下起瓢泼大雨。 Ironically, most people came to watch the match on the day it poured with rain.
玛丽辛辛苦苦把约翰的房间打扫干净，不料她所得到的却是一番侮辱。 Mary worked hard to clean up John's room, but all she got for her trouble was a kick in the teeth.
法官的本分是执行法律（主持正义），惟其所行者，却是在拖延（其执行）。 The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is delay it.
差劲……我刚刚开始认为他有潜力，他却丢下一切转到别处工作了。 Darn...just when I start think he have potential, he just drop everything and took another job elsewhere.
1986年布什所预料到的尴尬情形果然发生了。他的政治生涯的确受到威胁。他[对里根]的效忠到了瘫痪自己的程度。这固然是个人美德，但在政治上却是障碍。 The dilemma that Bush foresaw in1986 has come to pass. His political career is indeed at stake, and his paralyzing loyalty is becoming a political handicap as well as a personal virtue.
他虽有体验却无长进. He hasn't benefited from (ie become wiser with) the experience.
就算你对，可你要论证这一点却非易事。 Grant that you are correct, you may find it hard to prove your point.
他的用意很好，但他做起来却不令人满意。 His intention was good, but his execution of the plan was unsatisfactory.
这两兄弟仅外表相似，本性却很不一样。 There is only a formal likeness between the two brothers, for their natures are very different.
构思这本书只用了五分钟，但写这本书却花了一年。 The conception of the book took five minutes, but writing it took a year.
那记者虽然有点累，但他那天晚上却连夜写文章。 The journalist chucked out ink throughout that night although he was a bit tired.
他原本能按预定进度做完这件事的，但不知怎地却落后了。 He could have finished it on schedule, but somehow he fell behind.
她接待他时始终准确地把握好分寸，看似冷淡，却不失礼。 The manner in which she received him was calculated to a nicety to seem cool without being uncivil.
他带我到他的藏书室，里面的藏书虽然杂乱无章，数量却相当可观。 He took me into his library, a littery but considerable collection.
尽管几位名角演出都很出色，却未曾想竟让一名新秀抢尽风头。 Despite fine acting by several well-known stars it was a young newcomer who stole the show.
人难得生病，可是旁观者们却以为他势将必死，并因这一线希望而精神百倍起来。 A person seldom falls sick, but the bystander is animated with a faint hope that he will die.
她断定那笔钱用得不是地方，而我们在经济上遇到的困难却也似乎说明她言之有理。 She claimed that money had been wasted and our financial difficulties seemed to prove her point.
她虽然身有残疾, 却是个游泳好手. She swims well despite her disabilities.
尘土受到损辱，却以她的花朵来报答。 The dust receives insult and in return offers her flowers.
他在气力方面和我相等, 但在智力方面却不如我。 He equals me in strength but not in intelligence.
我与彼得情思未断之际, 却遇上了哈里又生恋情. I was still getting over Peter when I met and fell in love with Harry.
她挑拨两个对手相争, 自己却获得了那份工作. She played her two rivals off against each other and got the job herself.
人不同于野兽，因前者能笑，而后者却不能。 Man differs from beasts in that the former is able to laugh, while the latter aren't.
比较富裕的农民这时购买化肥，但合作社却买不起。 The richer peasants were buying chemical fertilizer, but the co-op could not afford it.
然而，其他的同事们却听信了青年就业新闻发布官员的那一番明智的劝告。 And the rest of the fellows fell for the Youth Employment Officer's words of wisdom.
想到我们把所有的钱都花在儿子的教育上，而他却所想去一家沉闷的工厂工作，我感到很伤心。 It breads my heart to think of all the money we spent on our son's education and all he wants to do is work in a dreary factory.
今天大地在太阳光里向我营营哼鸣，象一个织着布的妇人，用一种已经被忘却的语言，哼着一些古代的歌曲。 The earth hums to me today in the sun, like a woman at her spinning, some ballad of the ancient time in a forgotten tongue.
他追赶窃贼却未捉住. He chased (after) the burglar but couldn't catch him.
他外表粗鲁, 心地却十分善良. Beneath his gruff exterior he's really very kind-hearted.
伤口不久就愈合了, 但却留下了伤疤. The cut soon healed over/up, but it left a scar.
蒂姆成了传播媒介的焦点, 却也满不在乎. Tim appeared unabashed by all the media attention.
这地方虽然简陋，却是我们的会议厅。 Crude and simple, this place had to serve as the meeting hall.
为了把烦恼忘却，他让自己忙于花园的工作。 To forget his trouble, he busied himself in his garden .
就技术而言那座建筑物是杰作, 但却没人喜欢. Technicallythe building is a masterpiece, but few people like it.
每个人都埋怨自己的记忆力，却无人埋怨自己的判断力。 Everyone complain of his memory, no one of his judgement.
在英国, 女王是君主而治理国家的却是民选的代表. In Britain the Queen reigns, but elected representatives of the people govern the country.
如果说我们缺点不断出现，那么上帝的恩爱却定会永无止境。 And if our flaws are endless, God's love is truly boundless.
全部艰苦的工作都是我做的，但是我的老板却宣布那是他自己的发现，窃取了我的发明创造。 I did all the hard work but my boss stole my thunder by announcing the discovery as his own
忘却、遗忘忘却、遗忘的状态；遗忘 A condition of forgetfulness; oblivion.
他企图藉赌博增加收入，却陷入了更深的困境。 He tried to increase his income by gambling only to plunge more deeply into the mire.
终止于衰竭是“死亡”，但“圆满”却终止于无穷。 That which ends in exhaustion is death, but the perfect ending is in the endless.
＂他记住了那一系列日期，但却忽略了与其有关的主要事实。＂ "He memorized the list of dates, but neglected the main facts corresponding to them."
你们在外面享福，我却一直在这里辛辛苦苦守着火热的炉灶。可我又得到了什么报答呢？ Here I've been slaving over a hot cooker while you have been out enjoying yourselves, and what rewards do I get?
英格兰这国家过去和现在一样，到处可碰见这样的人：他们喜欢发号施令，但对正在发生的事情却似乎知之甚少。 England is, and has always been, a country infested with people who love to tell up what to do, but who rarely seem to know what's going on.
经过特别警告巴格达不得在伊拉克任何地方使用毒气和作战飞机（这些警告鼓励了少数民族叛变）以后，当伊拉克继续用作战直升机对付叛军时，布什却半途而废未加制止。 After having pointedly warned Baghdad not to use poison gas or combat aircraft anywhere in Iraq, warnings that had encouraged the rebellion, Mr.Bush pulled up short when Iraq continued to fly combat helicopters against the insurgents.