Flat obedience to thy own flat commands, this is all thou breathest.

服从你那些的命令，这就是你想要的一切。

" Silence, silence." All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.

“肃静，肃静”，这的命令让十四楼的空气里充满了肃、肃、肃的嘶沙音。

Some experts say such a position of categorical deniability is driven by pragmatism.

一些专家表示，这种否的立场是用主义。

Milley's flat dismissing suggestions the counteroffensive is failing.

米利的拒绝表明反攻正在失败。

The door closed firmly, shutting me out from the warmth inside.

门紧紧关上了，把我和屋里的温暖隔开。

So that — that's their starting position. But they haven't outright denied that the tapes are real.

那是他的开始状态。但是他并没有否这些录音的真性。

But the intrepid wine merchant refused point-blank to accede to their request.

但胆大的酒商拒绝了他的要求。

He has always emphatically denied the allegations against him.

【against】他一直否对他的指控。

Aromatherapy was dismissed out of hand by traditional doctors.

【hand】传统的医生为香薰疗法根本不值一提。

The Russian instructions peremptorily forbade the writer from ever contradicting in conversation the recipient of the letters.

俄罗斯的指示禁止作者在谈话中与收信人发生矛盾。

If power is a muscle, driving progress through strength, influence is a magnet, drawing people toward possibilities they might otherwise never have imagined.

如果说权力是肌肉，权利能够通过力量推动进步，那么影响力就是磁铁，能将人引向若非如此他不会想象到的可能性的磁铁。

Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life.

乔无法以端庄得体的态度来倾心人，却试图熄灭自己的感情，但是又做不到，弄得心神不宁地过日子。

To rebuff the lady's advances without offending her honor, Gawain allowed one kiss — which he then passed on to her husband in exchange for a slain dear.

为了以维护她名誉的方式拒绝她的勾引，高文允许了一个吻，晚上他便以一个吻和她丈夫交换他的猎物：一只死鹿。

He kept at this for a year, doing desultory writing on the side, with little success, and then one day an infelicitous incident peremptorily closed his newspaper career.

他就这样坚持了一年， 一边散漫地写作， 收效甚微，后有一天， 一件不幸的事结束了他的报业生涯。

Her husband, however, would not agree with her here; for besides having a regard for his cousin, Charles Hayter was an eldest son, and he saw things as an eldest son himself.

不过，她丈夫不能赞成她的这个看法，因为他除了对他的表弟比较器重之外，查尔斯·海特还是个长子，他自己正是以长子的目光来看待事物的。