The Keystone XL pipeline has had a chequered history.

Keystone XL 输油管道项目有一段曲折历史。

One part of my very, very chequered past I worked as a chef so I really enjoy cooking.

过去生活充满波折，做过厨师，所以喜欢烹饪。

The north London district of Kings Cross, where Google's new gaff is going, has something of a chequered past.

坐落于伦敦北部英皇十字区谷歌新址有着一段曲折历史。

Argentina’s chequered past with the IMF stretches back more than six decades.

阿根廷在国际货币基金组织曲折历史可以追溯到六十多年前。

And just, it's me and my knob, we have a bit of a chequered past.

和小兄弟 们一直挺坎坷。

It contained a large table covered with a chequered oilcloth and round the walls was a set of stiff chairs.

里面有一大桌子， 上面铺着方格油布， 围着墙壁放着一套硬椅子。

I'm currently a columnist with the paper on the weekend and have a chequered history across various disciplines, from running money to advising people running money.

目前是《周末报》专栏作家， 在各个领域都有丰富历史，从营资金到建议人们营资金。

The surplices of the choristers gleamed, rainbow-tinted, beneath the coloured windows; the sunlight lay on the chancel floor in chequered stains of orange and purple and green.

唱诗班法衣在彩窗户下闪闪发光，呈彩虹。阳光照在圣坛地板上，呈现出橙、紫和方格斑点。

As he handed it back, the chequered sunlight fell on his bared head and wide, uplifted eyes, and cast a crimson glow across the white veil that his ministers were folding round him.

当他把它还回去时， 方格阳光落在他光秃秃脑袋和睁大眼睛上， 在他大臣们为他折叠白面纱上投射出深红光芒。

He sat as one sitting for a portrait, motionless, watching the chequered lights and shades on the tree-trunks, the children playing opposite the school previous to entering for the morning lesson, the reapers in a field afar off.

他坐在那里，一动不动地坐在那里，看着树干上斑驳灯光和阴影，孩子们在学校对面玩耍，然后才进入早上课程，收割者在远处田野里。

From the southern side of the said orchard ran a long road, chequered over with the shadow of tall old pear trees, at the end of which showed the high tower of the Parliament House, or Dung Market.

从上述果园南侧延伸出一条长长道路，在高大老梨树阴影下格格不入，尽头是国会大厦或粪便市场高塔。

At the age of 32, with a string of disasters behind him—including two expulsions from Harvard, a chequered employment history and, most tragically, the death of a young daughter—he stood on the shore of Lake Michigan contemplating suicide.

32 岁那年， 身后历了一连串灾难——包括两次被哈佛大学开除、曲折工作历，最悲惨是， 一个年幼女儿去世了——他站在密歇根湖畔考虑自杀。