As it happens, I've been uncomfortable about keeping a mother from her son.

正巧，觉得硬母子分离两地不大好。

If there was to be an aristocracy, it would be one of talent, not birth.

如果硬有贵族，那也应该由才华，而非出身来决定。

" Percy gets to keep his room all to himself because he's got to work. "

" 珀西硬一个人占一个房间，因为他工作。"

If you want to put a label on it.

硬给人标签的话 就是了。

Carrie's hell-bent on getting the four of us together Saturday night.

凯莉硬们四个 在星期六聚会。

Why is your mother so dead set on us getting pretty for the King?

你母亲为何硬们打扮漂亮呢？

My husband pushed me into leaving the job.

【push】丈夫硬辞了职。

For example, I didn't want to go to the party, but my friend John twisted my arm, so in the end I went.

例如，不想参加聚会，但的朋友约翰硬，所以最后还是了。

Filch found them trying to force their way through a door that unluckily turned out to be the entrance to the out-of-bounds corridor on the third floor.

费尔奇发现他们硬闯一道门，而那道门正好是通往四楼禁区走廊的入口。

Another time, Aunt Petunia had been trying to force him into a revolting old sweater of Dudley's (brown with orange puff balls)

还有一次，佩妮姨妈硬哈利穿一件旧的套头毛衣(这件毛衣很难看，是棕色的，缀有橙色的小毛球)。她越是往哈利头上套，毛衣就缩得越小，最后缩得只能给掌上木偶穿，哈利穿当然是不合适了。

And if Mum and Dad were going to become traitors to the Ministry he was going to make sure everyone knew he didn't belong to our family any more.

他还说，如果妈妈和爸爸硬背叛魔法部，他就让每一个人知道他已经不再属于们这个家了。

" It was not I that asked for the opium, " he said defiantly; " it was the others who insisted on giving it to me" .

“不是鸦片，”他挑衅地说。 “是别人硬给的”。

The state government, under relentless pressure from its political opponents, insisted that none of the dead had been murdered -- the media, they contended, had simply stitched together a series of unconnected natural deaths.

面对政治反对派的不断施压，中央邦政府坚持这些人并非死于谋杀，媒体硬将一系列毫无关联的自然死亡联系到一起。

" They will not work properly against each other, " said Dumbledore. " If, however, the owners of the wands force the wands to do battle ... a very rare effect will take place. "

它们不会正常地攻击对方，" 邓布利多说，" 不过，如果魔杖的主人硬两根魔杖争斗… … 就会出现一种十分罕的现象。

" You've got to realize, " he said, " that I don't want you to do it if you don't want to. I'm perfectly willing to go through with it if it means anything to you."

“你得知道，”他说，“如果你不想做，不会硬你做的。如果这对你很重，愿意承受到底。”

At this point Jordan and I tried to go but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain—as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.

这时乔丹和都想走，但是汤姆和盖茨比争先恐后地阻拦，硬们留下，仿佛两人都没有什么不可告人的事，仿佛以共鸣的方式分享他们的感情也是一种特殊的荣幸。