Success always seems as inevitable in retrospect as it is elusive when sought.

人们回想过去的时候，总觉得成功是十拿九稳的，而在追求成功时，它却虚无缥缈。

Actually, it originally said in the script that Hermione slaps Draco.

剧里说的是，赫敏扇了马尔福一巴掌。

Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?

“那么，难道达西先生认为，不管你的打算是多么轻卤莽，只要你一打定主意就坚持到底，也就情有可原了吗？”

The 13 colonies were originally British colonies.

这13个是英国的。

But my background is actually in computer engineering.

但我的专业是计算机工程。

How many times you go through the course of a day and realize did I do anything I set out to do today?

有多少次你经过一整后，才惊讶发现：我有做今计划要做的事吗？

Their fate was surely sealed. But not quite.

它的命运是注定了，但并不尽然。

That underlines the peril of Europe's low rate of vaccination.

这也使疫苗接种就很低的欧盟雪上加霜。

His task was to celebrate and reassure, yet give away almost nothing.

他的任务就是欢呼庆祝，巩固经济势头，而不能给（众）添福利。

Venn's heart sank within him, though it had not risen unduly high.

虽说维恩也没有抱太高的期望，但心里还是一沉。

America's NATO allies were disappointed that promising arms reduction initiatives never materialized.

美国的北约盟友们对于颇有希望的武器削减计划未能落实在纸面上感到颇为失望。

I proposed to astonish her by rehearsing these two poems in appropriate costume.

我打算穿适合的衣服朗诵这两首诗，让她大吃一惊。

She was weak and thin, and too much work had made her even more skinny.

身体单薄的她，愈发显得骨瘦如柴。

" Oh! don't, Miss Catherine! " I cried. " We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us. Come, come, be merry and like yourself! Look at little Hareton! he's dreaming nothing dreary. How sweetly he smiles in his sleep! "

“啊，别说啦，凯瑟琳小姐！”我叫着，“用不着招神现鬼缠我们，我们已够惨的啦。，，高兴起，像你的样子！看看小哈里顿——他梦中想不到什么伤心事。他在睡眠中笑得多甜啊！”

I accept the fact that I wasn't your first choice.

我得接受一个事实，我不是你们首选的演讲嘉宾。

I was planning to attend graduate school, but then I was offered a good job doing marketing, so I changed my mind.

我打算读研的，不过后有一份不错的工作，是做市场营销的，所以我就改变主意了。

But you quickly start buying things that you didn't plan on.

然后你很快就会发现自己开始买那些不打算买的东西。

Letting him hangout inside would have been a " Chiroupterrible" idea even if you got to wing it sometimes in news, some of the most " battle" tested reporters would want to fly to a different " echolocation" .

让他在里面闲逛是一个糟糕的想法，即使你有时在新闻中有所表现，一些认为最有“战斗力”的记者会想要飞向另一个“回声定位”。

Just for today I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my " luck" as it comes.

就为了今，我会做自我调整适应事物的面目，而不是想方设法使每一件事满足自己的欲望。当机会临的时候我会抓住它。

I was called and asked to play as Monica. -Joey? -And her Rachel, and I think we both just thought the other was better for the other part.

我试镜的角色是Monica。-Joey？-而她是Rachel，而我们都觉得对方的角色更适合。