There is talk of a summit between the two countries' presidents. But amid the upbeat noises are a few discordant notes.

有人称两国领导人进行了会晤。但在这欢快的音中夹杂着一些和谐的音。

IN THE crowded annals of marital spite, a 2010 divorce in Illinois—involving a Roman Catholic man and a Jewish woman and lavishly covered by the local press—stands out for the irreconcilable nature of its core dispute.

2010年，伊利诺伊州的一起离婚案：男方是罗马天主教徒，女方则是一名犹太人。媒体大篇幅的报导二人。如果婚姻中的和谐可以合成一部编年史，那么这起离婚案算得上是婚姻中核心分歧可调和的典范。

Given the global nature of modern science, however, today's astrophysicists often spend just as much time confronting the cacophony of the airport.

然而，全球化的现代科学使得今天的天 体物理学家也经常花费同样的时间去消除机场方面的和谐音。

The clamour of sneezing and people blowing their noses makes an unpleasant soundtrack to Britain's best summer weather.

人们打喷嚏以及擤鼻子的喧闹给这美好的夏日天气带来了和谐的音。

Sometimes the discordant note gains so much power that the music can no longer go on, and the individual shoots himself with a pistol or jumps into a river.

有时候，这种和谐的音会如此强大以至于生命的乐曲续演奏，而使人饮弹自尽或者投河而亡。

The traffic noise and other sources created a cacophony that disrupted the city's peaceful ambiance.

交通噪音和其他噪源制造了一种和谐的音，破坏了城市的宁静气氛。

Yes, that's a plug for the discord.

是的，这是一个和谐的广告插入。

But they're a dissonant combo that's particularly grating to many Western ears.

但这是一种和谐的组合，尤其令许多西方人感到刺耳。

The assumption is that mental troubles must be the result of some kind of discord in our relationships to one of our dead ancestors, who inhabit an invisible but active spirit world, as distinct from the tangible everyday realm.

这种假设认为，心理问题一定是我们与某位已故祖先关系和谐的结果，这些祖先居住在一个无形但活跃的灵界，与日常可触摸的现实世界截然同。

War doesn't sound like a very harmonious thing to do; however, sometimes it was necessary to keep the balance or harmony in Egypt which was the pharaoh's most important responsibility.

战争起来像是一件非常和谐的事情；然而，有时有必要保持埃及的平衡或和谐，这是法老最重要的责任。

" As if, " commentator Paul Sugy said, " at the moment when it celebrates its pride and its history, France cannot help drawing from its revolutionary guts the spirit of provocation and discord that has always fuelled its paradoxes and divisions."

评论员保罗·苏吉说：" 就好像，在庆祝它的骄傲和历史的时候，法国忍住从它的革命精神中汲取挑衅和和谐的精神，这种精神一直滋养着它的矛盾和分歧。"

Then again, I do think that regarding this issue, people tend to conflate the dissonance that is experienced by a character, with the dissonance that is experienced by the audience; which do not necessarily have to be the same thing.

再一次，我确实认为关于这个问题，人们倾向于将角色所经历的和谐与观众所经历的和谐混为一谈；这并一定是同一件事。

However, there are only three stanzas and three is an odd number, it's not in a pair, it's jarring and resembles the obstacles that prevent Agnes and Burns's love from being fated.

然而，只有三节，三是奇数，它是成对的，它是和谐的，类似于阻止阿格尼斯和彭斯的爱情注定的障碍。

A number of retail experts with whom I spoke were baffled by Gap's discordant product output, which includes not only Yeezy Gap but also a home goods collaboration with Walmart.

与我交谈过的许多零售专家对Gap和谐的产品产量感到困惑，其中仅包括Yeezy Gap，还包括与沃尔玛的家居用品合作。

The finance ministers meeting was beset with similar problems faced by last week's G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, which laid bare the discord in current geopolitics.

此次财长会议面临着与上周在约翰内斯堡举行的二十国集团外长会议类似的问题，这也暴露了当前地缘政治的和谐。

It's like with you and your wife-is the bad sex your biggest problem, or are all the bigger problems causing the bad sex?

就像你和你太太之间最大的问题是和谐的性生活，还是因为其他生活问题导致和谐的性生活？

Anthems need the warmth of harmony, or even the chafing of dissonance.

圣歌需要和谐的温暖，甚至和谐的摩擦。

Both groups slowed down-but those given the discordant notes did so much more.

两组都停下了，但那些到和谐音的人停得更久。

Halfway along Passeig de Gracia is the Block of Discord, where contrasting buildings by four modernist masters jostle for attention.

位在格拉西亚大道半路的和谐街区，每栋建筑风格迥异。是4位现代主义大师，透过建筑在较劲。

There have been notes of discord too, at the first session of the new European Parliament in Strasbourg.

在斯特拉斯堡的新欧洲议会第一届会议上也有和谐的迹象。