I was just about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie.

You can really feel like you are on a tropical holiday in Hong Kong but you have to make a little bit of effort.

在香港，你确实觉得你是在热带度假，但你得付出点努力。

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Because you know, you could make little puppets out of them, and you could use them in your theater of cruelty.

你可以用它们做傀儡，也可以在你的“残酷戏院”中用它们。

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After taking off his coat, he felt it incumbent upon him to make some little report of his day.

脱下外套后，他觉得自己应该谈一点这一天的情况。

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Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and the unfortunate.

有思想的人很少用这样的短语：幸福的人和不幸的人。

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Because you know, you could make little puppets out of them.

你可以在你的“残酷戏院”中。

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Women want you to make a little bit of an effort.

女人只想要你对她们有所表示。

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I listened through curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation.

现在这批小虫在举行辩论，我好奇心动，不免凑上前去偷听一番；可是虫虽小，它们的心却大，开起口来，都是三四个一起来的，因此听来很不清楚。

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Again, a most obvious characteristic of information goods is that its fixed cost is very high but its reproduction cost is very low, which make little sense of information goods pricing on base of cost.

又由于信息产品的一个最显著特点是：固定成本很高，而再生产成本却很低。

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However, academic circles make little study of this school.

可是，学术界对这一大流派研究甚少。

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If make little of capitalism's essence we cannot definition socialism's essence.

不理解资本主义的本质就无从科学界定社会主义的本质。

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Their nonplus could be attributed to outmoded and backward national theory: National consciousness research falls into confused district is because of the ossification of national definition, and national spirit research is still in the blind area of the discipline of national theory.

双方的困惑都可以归因于民族理论的薄弱：民族意识研究陷入误区是由于民族定义的僵化，民族精神研究则基本上还处在民族理论学科的盲区。

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nonplus He was nonplused by the strange customs he saw everywhere in the country.

v.使困惑他在这国各地看到奇怪习俗，困惑了他。

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He was nonplus by the strange customs he saw everywhere in the country.

他在这国各地看到的奇怪习俗，困惑了他。

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Her question put me in a nonplus.

她的问题使我狼狈不堪。

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Intranet boosters argue that low cost and a standard platform make it a smarter bet.

但内部网的支持者则认为，低的成本和标准的平台使内部网成为一种值得下的赌注。

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Now I'd like to make a little side bet with you.

现在我想跟你打个小赌。

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Elop's tenure at Nokia has been controversial, but unlike insiders he had the ability to divorce the company from Symbian and make a much-needed bet on a more viable operating system ( albeit not a very popular one).

埃洛普在诺基亚的任职一直饱受争议，但与内部人员不同，他可以使公司放弃塞班，把赌注押在更可行的（虽然并不是很受欢迎的）操作系统上。

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Bill Gross, the manager of the world's biggest bond fund, has switched gears to make a big bet on mortgage debt, almost tripling his holding of it to more than 60 per cent of the fund.

世界最大债券基金经理比尔•格罗斯（Bill Gross）已调转方向，重金押注于按揭债务，将其所持的按揭债务增至目前水平的近3倍，占基金总值的60%以上。

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The mimic can, for example, make a huge bet and then simply go quiet if the bet pays off, making safe, neutral investments until the bonus comes due.

比如，伪装策略可以是：下一个巨额赌注，如果赌注赚了钱，就偃旗息鼓，只进行安全、中性的投资，直到发奖金。

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Make a conscious bet on the folks you're going to work for and your commitment to them will pay off much more than those fluffy perks.

有意识地把你的前程压在那些你打算为之工作的人身上，这种忠诚带来的回报将远远超过那些华而不实的福利待遇。

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