Mark Twain suggested that an ingredient was missing in the American ambition when he said: " What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges."

马克·吐温认为，美国人的理想中缺少了一种成分。他说：“如果我们能偶尔地躺下来好好放松休息一下，使我们的角始终保持锋利，那么我们将有可能成为一个多么朝气蓬勃的民族，一个多么富有思想的民族啊！

Had his brain unfolded under sharper contours they would have said, " A thoughtful man."

要是他脑中所想的都在更有角的外貌下现出来，人们一定会说，“一个思想深沉的青年。”

Whisky was showing in his face and the hard line of his long jaw was being obscured under an unhealthy bloat and puffs rising under his bloodshot eyes.

威士忌的作用已经在他现出来，那长长角分明的下颚的线条正在渐渐消失，被一种虚胖的像所遮盖，而布满血丝的眼睛底下也期了两个浮泡似的眼袋。

You need to soften sharp corners to make your face look rounder.

你需要柔化锋利的角来让在视觉变得圆一些。

Hmm... Well, it's smooth and it has corners (pointy corners) .

嗯… … 它很光滑，而且有角（尖角）。

His hair was dark and curly, his features strongly marked.

深色的鬈发，五官角分明。的确漂亮非凡，引人注目。

But then someone thought that it would look better with smooth angled sides.

来有人认为光滑的角会更好看。

The younger one was good-looking with a bold, honest face and manner.

年纪较轻的一位蛮俊的，长着一张角分明的坦诚的，态度落落大方。

And as soon as I saw him I was like, he is going to look fantastic on screen because he's got like, just such an angular face, like the cheekbones, the jaw and like his height.

我一看到他就觉得，他在银幕看起来一定很棒，因为他的很角分明，颧骨、下巴和身高都很好。

All this may sound highly theoretical and not practical.Nevertheless, they know well the independence that is the basis of your value to them.They would, if they could, soften you around the edges; just enough to make you more palatable.

这一切听起来可能非常理论化，不切实际。然而，他们非常清楚，这独立自主就是你的价值所在。他们会，如果他们能够的话，会想办法软化你的角，只是足以让你更容易接受。

It's a pebble that must have been tumbled downstream, banged and smoothed against other stones as it went, in the process that geologists poetically describe as 'chattering'.

这肯定是一枚来自下游的卵石了，逐流而下的过程中，受流水冲刷，在砂石间反复翻滚摩擦，直到角尽失，成为圆滑可爱的卵石。地质学家们很诗意地将这过程描述为“千锤百炼，终成正果”。

The shadows of the palm trees slanted across the freeway - defined, sharper than I remembered, paler than they should be. Nothing could hide in these shadows.

棕榈树在高速路的两旁洒下歪斜的树影——那些清晰的树影，比我忆里的还要角分明，颜色浅淡得出奇。没有什么能藏在那些树影里。

Their surface is not smooth and their edges are jagged and for good reason, these rocks interlock with each other and therefore stay in place.

它们的面并不光滑，角参差不齐，这些岩石相互交错，因此留在原地是有原因的。

" I was still young enough to believe that the important questions had been answered somewhere, " he muses, a reminiscence with hard edges.

他沉思道，“我当时太年轻，认为重要的问题都有答案”，这样的回忆角分明。

The ever-attending green water, with its aerial clearness, enabled us to see its spiral folds and horns as they hung suspended in the deep.

不断涌出的绿色海水映照空中的晶莹剔透，螺旋褶皱的冰块角分明，悬浮于深海当中，清晰可触。

I like to be playful with my accessories and try to introduce something with a little edge, a little punkier.

我喜欢把我的配饰设计得俏皮一点，并尝试引入一些更有角、更朋克的元素。

Some stones are made up of a great many little bits with flat shining sides and sharp corners, called crystals.

有些石头，是很多很多面平整闪光、角锋利的小块组成的，这些小块叫做“晶体”。

Of course, he may not be all that one would wish, but Mary can soon smooth off the rough edges.

当然了，他或许还有不尽如人意的地方，玛丽很快就能磨掉他那些角角。

One tactic uses what's known as shape symbolism, where we associate roundness with sweetness and angles with bitterness.

还有一种套路使用了所谓的形状象征主义，我们会把圆形与甜味、角与苦味联系起来。

It means I'm gonna lose my edge. It means I'm gonna lose my drive and ambition.

意味着我已经失去了角，意味着我不再有动力和雄心。