I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist.

在我整个的童年时代，活犹如笼罩在我身边的一团金色雾霭。

It's like a boat sailing against the current. It must forge ahead or it will be driven back.

犹如逆水行舟，不进则退。

It's easy to be overwhelmed by these amazing views, and to be really fascinated by these sometimes alien-looking formations.

这些壮丽的景观是那么震撼心魄，这些时常犹如世外之物的形态也令人深深着迷。

Take the sourest lemons and make something resembling lemonade, right?

活带给你柠檬般的酸楚酿成犹如柠檬汽水般的甘甜，对吗？

Other men saw to the welfare of their dogs from a sense of duty and business expediency; he saw to the welfare of his as if they were his own children, because he could not help it.

其他人是出于责任感和为了工作才关心狗的利益；而他却情不自禁地关心着他的狗，犹如他们是他的亲子女一般。

Bright as the breakers' splendors run Along the billows to the sun.

犹如无数，细碎浪花的翻奔涌，扑向太阳，血色天空中一抹瑰丽。

Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

犹如从不灭的炉中吹出火花！

It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

它之到来犹如欢乐的黎明，结束了桎梏黑人的漫漫长夜。

Her face was made of heavenly smiles, and her voice of tranquil music.

她的笑容无比甜蜜，声音犹如恬静的音乐。

And they're saving thousands of lives. There's a light at the end of the tunnel.

疫苗拯救了成千上万的人。犹如一线曙光出现在眼前。

The mountain is a giant, putrid layer-cake, with dozens of strata of rubbish separated by soil and plastic liners designed to contain the brew of noxious chemicals that would otherwise leach into groundwater.

这座大山犹如一个腐烂的大蛋糕，几十层的垃圾，由土和塑料管隔开，设计塑料管的目的，是为了防止变质中的有毒化学物质浸入地下水。

What I'm looking for is nothing but a touch of verisimilitude, like the handful of spices you chuck into a good spaghetti sauce to really finish her off.

我要寻找的不是别的，而是一丁点逼真效果，犹如你往本就不错的意大利面条酱汁里丟下一撮调味香料，让美味更圆满。

It's an end in itself, like a black hole consuming everything it touches; instead of building connections, it breaks them.

这股力量只为自己服务，犹如黑洞临近的物体统统吸入；不爱组织，爱瓦解组织。

She was herself like a monument, unchanging.

她犹如屹立不倒的纪念碑。

Peace, like air and sunshine, is hardly noticed when people are benefiting from it.

和平犹如空气和阳光，受益而不觉。

This monkey is like a black sheep species in the area.

这种猴子在这个地区犹如鹤立鸡群。

But in the here and now in the mid 1970s, computers were prehistoric and enormous.

但在70年代中期，电脑犹如史前物般庞大。

So becomes the needle in a haystack, trying to find a few that have malaria.

在这十亿个红细胞中找到有疟疾病毒的细胞犹如大海捞针。

I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books; like adolescents they stand before the mirror, and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them.

我听说一些作家，除了自己的书外，别的书一概不读，犹如希腊神话中那位漂亮的少年，站在镜前，仍然不能辨认自身的真面目。

We might at the same time realise that we abhor what news and social media do to our minds and — like a cowardly sheep finally kicking the farmer — delete everything, until our phones can barely tell the time any more.

我们可能同时认识到，我们厌恶新闻和社交媒体左右我们的思想，犹如一只胆怯的羊终于踢开了农夫，我们删除了一切，直到手机只剩下看时间这种功能。