一个众所周知的难以确定的威胁来自非法宠物交易。 One threat that is notoriously difficult to quantify is the illegal pet trade.
更值得注意的是，那些拥有两只或更多小宠物的儿童，患过敏症的病例甚至要少很多，比同龄儿童降低了77％，他们不但不易对小猫和小狗过敏，而且对尘粒、豚草和早熟禾等过敏原的过敏率也下降了。 Even more remarkable, children who had two or more dogs or cats had an even greater reduction, up to 77 percent, in risk of allergies. And not only were they less likely to develop allergies to cats and dogs, but also to dust mites, short ragweed and blue grass.
所以，虽然我否认说诗人会垄断灵感，但我还是把他们列人命运宠儿这一杰出人才的行列。 And so, though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspi ration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
雷蒙德太太的孩子们在母亲节时将早点送至其床上。然后带她去吃馆子，使她受宠若惊。 Mrs Raymond's children served her breakfast in bed on Mother's Day and later took her out to dinner. She felt on a pedestal.
每星期一下午两点钟，我和博要去密尔沃基东北方向的银泉康复中心，为住在那里的老年人进行一小时宠物治疗。 On Monday afternoons at two o’clock,Beau and I would arrive at the Silver Spring Convalescent Center on Milwaukee’s northeast side of town for an hour of pet therapy with the seniors who lived there.
对于这个因他而使我受了称赞的孩子，也就软化了。就这样辛德雷失去了他最后一个同盟者。不过我还是不能疼爱希刺克厉夫，我常常奇怪我主人在这阴沉的孩子身上看出哪一点会让他这么喜欢。根据我的记忆，这孩子可从来没有过任何感激的表示以报答他的宠爱。 I was vain of his commendations, and softened towards the being by whose means I earned them, and thus Hindley lost his last ally: still I couldn't dote on Heathcliff, and I wondered often what my master saw to admire so much in the sullen boy, who never, to my recollection, repaid his indulgence by any sign of gratitude.
狗是人类良伴，从古至今都和人类维持良好关系，而今富裕社会更有许多有闲有钱者养狗当宠物。 It is said that a dog is a man’s best friend. In affluent societies, dogs are kept as pets. Dogs and man have always enjoyed a close relationship.
然而分析家说，双职工父母的出现、子女数目减少并“被宠坏”、人员流动性的增加、物质主义，以及家庭的团体权威的丧失致使违法行为有增无减。 Instead, say analysts, the advent of two working parents, fewer and "spoiled" children, increased mobility, materialism and the loss of family and community authority have led to higher lawlessness.
耸人听闻的关于丑闻的新闻报道；哗众取宠的新闻。 sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal; yellow journalism.
他所宠爱的情妇竟偏巧是美神，在她的怀抱里，这位武士得到了安宁。 His loved one and mistress is the goddess of beauty herself. In her arms the warrior finds repose.
然而，经过半年我们家人的喂养和宠爱，小狗在秋天遭遇了挫折。 Then in the fall,after six months of family nurture and adoration,Scampy suffered a setback.
如果和宠物道别的时机到了，主人们可以为宠物买一块体面的墓地。 And when it's time to say good-bye, owners can bury their pets in a respectable pet cemetery.
乔丹和公牛队是零售业的宠儿，1995一1996年度零售总额达到31亿美元的最高峰值。 Gross retail sales peaked at $3.1 billion in 1995-96.
不过亚洲各国只有一个君主和一大群宦海沉浮的宠臣和官吏，而欧洲则有一个人数众多和相当稳定的大土地所有者阶级，后者远不及前者穷奢极欲，因为他们就个人来说拥有的剩余产品要少得多，而且在很长一段时间内还要用大部分剩余产品供养他们的家臣。由于社会的好战习俗以及政府无力给予保护，当时大土地所有者为了自身的安全必须豢养一批家臣。 except that, in lieu of a single monarch and a fluctuating body of favourites and employ, there was a numerous and in a considerable degree fixed class of great landholders; exhibiting far less splendour, because individually disposing of a much smaller surplus produce, and for a long time expending the chief part of it in maintaining the body of retainers whom the warlike habits of society, and the little protection afforded by government, rendered indispensable to their safety.
77.长卷毛狗曾被用作猎鸭时叼回猎物的猎犬，但是美国kennelclub却不承认它们为猎犬，因为它们现在大多数作为宠物饲养。 77. Poodles were once used as retrievers in duck hunting, but the American Kennel Club does not consider them sporting dogs because they are now primarily kept as pets.
“你们这里种水果吗？”“不种，只种大黄，这是上帝对对苏格兰人和懒人的恩宠。” "Won't you grow any fruit?" "No. only rhubarb, God's gift to Scotland and lazy gardeners."
撒切尔夫人是否被成功所宠坏？她自信极强。自称“政界最具信心的人”，至于是否会损伤别人的信心，却完全不顾。 Has success spoiled Mrs.Thatcher? She has never lacked salf-confidence. A self-described "conviction politician," she has long ridden roughshod over the convictions of others.
她现在的宠物狗里普尔就是去年从绍斯波特-奥克拯救流浪动物协会领养的。 She adopted her dog Ripple last year from the Southport-Oak Island Animal Rescue.
是某人的宠儿，在某人面前吃香 Be a favo(u)rite with sb.
使变腐坏；宠坏 To cause to become rotten; spoil.
酒店经营者克里斯托弗·伊斯利在接受路透社采访时说："我们不止一次地听到人们说，'这里真不错，我喜欢这儿。'"他还谈到，人们总是想让宠物也能享受到自己喜欢的一切。 "We hear time and time again, 'Gee this is so nice, I'd like to stay here,'" hotelier Christopher Easley told Reuters in an interview, acknowledging that people tended to want for their pets what they wanted for themselves.
先有艾丝·温图拉的《宠物侦探》，一部展示凯利特有的古怪风格的叫座影片。 First there was Ace Ventura:Pet Detective,a surprise hit that show Carrey’s now signature wacky style.
神探飞机头1／宠物侦探 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
带上宠物和圣诞老人合个影！ Take Your Pet to See Santa Claus
随着edsgerdijkstra著名的“goto有害”论的问世，goto便从此失宠。 goto fell into true disfavor with the publication of the famous “Goto considered harmful” paper by Edsger Dijkstra, and since then goto-bashing has been a popular sport, with advocates of the cast-out keyword scurrying for cover.
宠物甚至可以和他们的主人一同去度假。 Pets can even accompany their owners on vacation.
利用他们那些身居高位的朋友来接近总统；感到自己被那些追求恩宠者利用了 Used their highly placed friends to gain access to the president; felt he was being used by seekers of favor.
要说宠物嘛，牧羊狗最好。 As for pets, sheepdogs are the best.
低级趣味的报纸是那些大量报导人们的私生活，藉以哗众取宠的报纸。 The gutter press is those newspapers which are full of shocking stories about people's private lives.
任何种类及大小的宠物都能带给人们相伴与爱的感觉。 Little creatures of all shapes and sizes can provide companionship and love.
在电视播演歌剧时插播宠物食品广告真是煞风景. Interrupting an opera on television for a pet-food commercial is going from the sublime to the ridiculous.
防止虐待动物协会的收容所是由私人提供资金的梅迪宠物收养中心，上个月才开张，它不是普通的动物收容所，而是一种给狗和猫建造的家庭型住所，有电视设备、波斯地毯、天窗、长沙发和桌子。 The S.P.C.A. shelter, the privately financed Maddie's Pet Adoption Center, opened last month and is not the standard animal shelter. It has "home style" quarters for dogs and cats, with television sets, Persian rugs, skylights, couches and tables.