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a game not worth the candle

n.不值得做的事

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a game not worth the candle为短语/超纲词汇
1. Every awkward attempt meets with sympathy and encouragement, and the most difficult step on the path of language becomes the merriest game.
    每一次尴尬的尝试都会受到同情和鼓励,这样在语言学习道路上最困难的一步变成了最愉快的游戏。

2. Each time you go to a job interview and give them your best and they hire someone else, you go another round with yourself and your self-worth.
    每次去求职面试,你都把你主要的优点陈述给他们听,可他们雇佣的却总是别人。你只好带着你自己和你的自尊开始另一轮的求职。

3. Brad: Nice game! A shower and whirlpool should really hit the spot.
    伯拉德:真不错的比赛!来个淋浴和旋涡浴应该够过瘾了.

4. Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
    与其诅咒黑暗,不如燃起蜡烛。

5. By this time, a Lancaster bomber in reasonable condition was rare and worth rescuing.
    到了那个时候,状况良好的兰开斯特轰炸机实属罕见,值得抢救。

6. But each time you recover that valued self-worth, you renew (重新开始) a fight to keep it.
    但是每当你重新找回那珍贵的自尊时,你又得开始一场新的战斗来维护它。

7. But they reasoned that it would be worth it if their children got into private schools early and did not have to worry about passing examinations later on.
    可她们又辩解道,如果自己的孩子能早日进入私立学校,用不着以后担心通过入学考试,那么这么做也是值得的。"

8. But most wonder if it's worth it given their respective lack of affection for each other.
    但大多数人都心存疑惑:既然两岸互缺钟爱之情,修此隧道是否值得?

9. But the latest research seems to imply that without the software of emotional maturity and self-knowledge, the hardware of academic training alone is worth less and less.
    但最新的研究似乎表明,缺乏情感成熟和自我了解这一软件,单靠纯学院式的培训这一硬件是没有用的。

10. It seemed worth that price to have us out the door.
    好象用这个代价把我们赶出门是很合算的。

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