It does not mean accepting the lowest common denominator or clinging to outmoded ideas out of apathy or fear.

也不意味着要刻意迎合大众口味，或是因冷漠或恐惧而后的想法不撒手。

It's impossible to know exactly when you're going to shuffle off this mortal coil.

我们无法准确知道我们何时才会撒手人寰。

The rabbis of old put it this way: " A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open."

“一个人初降人世时手紧握成拳，撒手人寰时却手掌张开。”

And finally, if you cling on to something, you hold on to it tightly, you don't want to let it go.

最后，如果你紧紧抓某样东西不放，你就会紧紧地抓它，不想撒手。

Fees also tend to soar because, even when they rise, captive parents are loth to pull out, not least because the alternative is likely to be an undersubscribed and underperforming state school.

学费也趋向猛涨，因为只要它涨，着了高价高质量迷的家长就不想不想撒手，重要的因是只要一撒手，他们的剩下的选择可能就是资金欠缺又运营不良的公立学校了。

Almost at the same time, her mother died after her long illness.

与此同时，久病的母亲撒手人寰。

But there was that safe in Springfield, too. It wasn't easy. Feeling all right?

" 我们要对付斯普林菲尔德提出的反对，州长几乎撒手不干了。你好吗？"

A year later, May died after giving birth to a daughter.

但是一年后，May在生下一个女儿之后便撒手人寰。

He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn't bear to shake him free.

他在抓着最后一线希望不放，我也不忍叫他撒手。

You have to be able to walk away.

你必须得有撒手不管的能力。

Over the next three months, I was unable to unplug much at all.

随后的3个月，我根本就不可能对工作完全撒手不管。

'There is water in your eyes, ' said he as he released me.

他撒手后对我说，'你眼泪都流出来啦。

The time could come for some of us in which it's time to let go.

有些人会走到应该撒手人寰的那一天。

Each side had its own nuclear weapons.

双方都有自己的撒手锏。

She's got her claws in him and she's not letting go.

她已经缠上他了，而且她不会撒手。

Why wouldn't I have just let it alone and let Ian take his chances?

为什么我没有撒手不管让伊恩自生自灭？

Let him be. It's okay. Let him go free.

由他去 没事的 撒手吧。

" Only think of Elizabeth's including everybody" ! whispered Mary very audibly. " I do not wonder Captain Wentworth is delighted! You see he cannot put the card out of his hand" .

" 请你只要想一想，伊丽莎白把每个人都请到了！" 玛丽低声说道，不过大伙都听得见，" 我毫不怀疑温特沃思舰长感到很高兴！ 你瞧，他拿着请帖都不肯撒手了。"

But it won't be over, because while our mind sleeps our muscles tighten the death grip, instead of doing the only sensible thing-which is to let go.

但这不会结束，因为就在我们的脑子睡大觉的同时，我们的肌肉还在紧紧抓对方，而不是做唯一明智的事情——撒手给对方自由。

He used to take pleasure in explaining the underwater wonders to me; now he left me to my research and no longer entered the lounge.

以前他很乐意向我解释海底的奇观；可现在他对我的研究撒手不管，也不再到客厅来了。