I'm afraid I can't agree with you. That's a good way of giving information, but it's not a good way of persuading people. For one thing, it's boring, and people aren't going to read an ad that looks boring. For another thing, one computer looks very like

恐怕我不能同意你的意见。那是个通报信息的好办法，但并非是使人信服的好办法。一是它很乏味，人们是不会去读一则看起来很乏味的广告的。其次，计算机彼此都很相像。人们不会记住产品的名字的。

Have you brought anything to weigh the flesh?

你带来了称肉的器具吗？

The World Trade Center, an office building for over 1200 firms employing about 50,000 people, is even higher at 411 metres.

世界贸易中心要高得多，有411米。它是一座办公大楼，楼里有1，200多家公司，大约有5万雇员。

When the ship finally arrived in a port, the wooden cover was opened wide and Kunta could see in daylight for the first time across the part of the ship where he had been chained.

当船终于到达一个港口时，木盖打开了，孔塔这才第一次在日光下扫视了他被拴在那儿的那一部分船舱。

All machines are slightly different, so you need a short lesson when you start work in a new office.

所有的机器都稍微有些不同，所以当你新到一个办公室开始工作时，你需要进行短期培训。

Before he returned to India, he decided to live as a poor man and not to possess wealth.

在回印度之前，他已决心过穷人一样的生活，不占有财富。