Four years ago at her first Inauguration Ball, Michelle shimmered in an off-white, one-shouldered floor-length couture gown by the designer.

We're forever reading about how concert audiences are graying, and new artists must flounce around fiddling in tank tops and platform heels to get attention ( think Vanessa-Mae and the gals from Bond).

我们永远读到的是音乐会中听众以老年人居多，而新艺术家们必须穿着小可爱露肩背心和厚底鞋才能引来注意（想想陈美和其他邦德女郎们）。

And I do love strapless. Me too.

而且我确实喜欢露肩的，我也是。

Everybody has a MySpace page, but you don't need to load it up with revealing photos of yourself. Don't overpost.

每个人都玩社交网站（Myspace、人人网、开心网等），但你无需上传一些坦胸露肩的照片。

Whether you bare it with a strappy top or let a shoulder slip out from your top, the bare shoulder is a summer-perfect look.

不论是吊带装还是半边的露肩装，露肩总是夏天的一道亮丽的风景线。

Worn on a state visit to the Netherlands in 1958, it features a one-shouldered bodice, the line of which is continued by a gathered panel of satin across the skirt.

女王身穿此礼服于1958年出访荷兰。礼服的特点是其露肩的连衣裙上身，全丝硬缎的镶片将肩部线条延续到整条裙子上。

Photographs showed them in a tuxedo and an off-the-shoulder gown.

照片上姚明穿着礼服，叶莉穿着露肩婚纱。

I was reluctant to embroil myself in his problems.

我不愿意卷入到他的问题中去。

Going to School Freely: Inevitable Alternative Enrolling Junior Middle School; The country at first did not want to become embroil in the battle

自由入学：我国初中入学方式的必然选择这个国家起初不想卷入到战争中去

The country at first did not want to become embroil in the battle

这个国家起初不想卷入到战争中去

Please do not embroil me in your squabbles.

请别把我牵连进你们的纠纷里。

Don't embroil yourself in coworker drama before you've even stepped foot into the office.

在踏入办公室之前，不要将自己卷入办公室冲突中。

The on-again-off-again on-screen couple became off-screen exes in May 2013 after dating for more than three years.

这对在电视里分分合合的荧幕情侣于2013年5月分手，在此之前他们已经在一起3年了。

No acting required: Real life couple Penn Badgley and Blake Lively film scenes for Gossip Girl in New York's Central Park as on-screen couple Dan and Serena

不需演技就可以：这对美剧《绯闻女孩》中的情侣在现实中也不负众望，布莱克·莱弗利（Blake Lively）和佩恩·贝格利（Penn Badgley）戏里戏外一样恩爱。他们现在正在位于纽约的中央公园进行拍摄呢。

Actions based on performance of sacrifice, charity and austerity should never be renounced; they certainly must be enacted; performance of sacrifice, charity and austerities are purifying for those in wisdom.

基于奉爱牺牲，慈善布施和持戒苦修的行为活动，永远都不应该放弃，而一定要奉行。进行奉爱牺牲，慈善布施和持戒苦修是智者们在净化心灵。

Penance in its time, not to mention God, is the tiny micro-organisms& virus cells, do not look at it.

在它苦修的时候，别说神，就是最微小的微生物&病毒细胞，也不瞧它一眼。

Chavez said her posse was particularly helpful when she was a freshman, missing her family in Chicago a seven-hour drive away and tackling a difficult calculus class.

查维斯说她的波赛圈在她读大一的时候特别有帮助，因为当时她想念远在七小时车程之外的芝加哥家人，同时还要苦修难懂的微积分课程。

( In other news, your office mate isn't sipping water because of his ascetic character but because he has a hangover.)

（换一个例子来说，你的同事小口地喝水，并不是因为他有着苦修者的特质，而是因为宿醉未醒。）

fatalistic In Oxford living dictionary, this word used to convey a fatalistic recognition that future events are out of the speaker's control.

宿命论的在牛津辞典中的解释是，表示一种宿命论认识：就是以后会发生什么不是人能控制的。千禧年的n.禁欲主义者，恬淡寡欲的人adj.坚忍的，苦修的心理；

The Snowden who speaks is not the stoic version, but one who manages to deliver a Stone--caliber movie line.

讲话时的斯诺登不是一名苦修者的样子，而是努力想传达出斯通标准的电影台词。

Having or suggesting an emphasis on hard physical activity, as at the expense of subtlety.

苦修的，崇尚自然法则的：有或暗含强调艰辛的体力活动的，如致力于细微之处。