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

如果硬要有贵族，那也应该由才华，而非出身来决定。

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

巧，我觉得硬要母子分离两地不大好。

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

" 珀西硬要一个人占一个房间，因为他要工作。"

If you want to put a label on it.

硬要给人标签的话 就是了。

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

你母亲为何硬要我们打扮漂亮见国王呢？

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

凯莉硬要我们四个 在星期六聚会。

My husband pushed me into leaving the job.

【push】我丈夫硬要我辞了职。

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

还有一次，佩妮姨妈硬要哈利穿一件让人作呕的旧套头衣(这件衣是棕色的，缀有橙色的小球)。

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，我不想去参加聚会，但我的朋友约翰硬要我去，所以最后我还是去了。

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，佩妮姨妈硬要哈利穿一件旧的套头衣(这件衣很难看，是棕色的，缀有橙色的小球)。她越是往哈利头上套，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。

But you have made it your own, so it would be silly if I were to attempt to go toe-to-toe with you today.

但你已经把它己的风格了，所以我今天要是硬要跟你面较量，那就太傻了。

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.

费尔奇发现他们硬要闯一道门，而那道门好是通往四楼禁区走廊的入口。

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，如果妈妈和爸爸硬要背叛魔法部，他就要让每一个人知道他已经不再属于我们这个家了。

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

“要鸦片的不是我，”他 defiantly 说，“是他们硬要给我的。” 注：defiantly 在此处直译为“ defiantly ”，实际使用时可根据上下文调整为如“倔强地”、“强硬地”等更然的表达方式。

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，媒体硬要将一系列毫无关联的然死亡联系到一起。

" 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. "

它们不会常地攻击对方，" 邓布利多说，" 不过，如果魔杖的主人硬要两根魔杖争斗… … 就会出现一种十分罕见的现象。

" 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，我不会硬要你去做的。如果这对你很重要，我愿意承受到底。”

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.

这时乔丹和我都想走，但是汤姆和盖茨比争先恐后地阻拦，硬要我们留下，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。

Its co-pilot really isn't as important or impressive as it's made out to be, and it's a total pain in the butt when they try to force it down your throat every time you turn on your PC.

微软的副驾驶功能其实并没有宣传的那么重要或令人印象深刻，每次开机时它们硬要强行推送， 真是让人烦不胜烦。