Anyone who's been sober at a bar is familiar with this paradox.

Although strictly illogical, Martin's interpretation of this paradox seems the best.

马丁对于这一悖论的解释尽管严格说来不合乎逻辑, 卻似乎是最好的解释了.

It is proposed by Von Neumann and Morgenstern ( 1947 ) who succeed Bernoulli to answer the St. Petersburg paradox.

该模型由VonNeumannand Morgenstern ( 1947 ) 等人,继承18世纪数学家Bernoulli对 “圣.彼得堡悖论”(St. Petersburgparadox )的解答并进行严格的公理化阐述而形成.

Although I'm so successful I'm really rather a failure. That's a paradox, isn't it?

虽然我非常成功，可事实上我却是个相当失败的人。这句话自相矛盾，是吧？

The paradox quickly became a social science classic, cited in academic journals and the popular media.

这个悖论迅速成为社会科学的经典, 并且在学术期刊和大众媒体中被广泛引用.

The paradox is that these two movements never encountered each other.

讽刺的是,这两起运动并没有彼此相遇.

Miserable, and unexpectedly lonely, she went in search of Jean-Paul.

内心痛苦、突感寂寞的她去寻找琼－保罗。

He has had to travel the country in search of work.

他不得不走遍全国寻找工作。

I had been looking for ways to combine harmonic and rhythmic struc-tures.

我过去一直在寻找将和声和节奏结合起来的方法。

They trekked from shop to shop in search of white knee-length socks.

他们拖着步子从一家商店走到另一家，寻找齐膝的白袜子。

Mrs Ringrose sat down and folded her hands in her lap.

林罗斯夫人坐下来，双手叠放在腿上。

Everything falls into his lap.

他事事如意.

The two pictures are made to lap over each other.

两幅照片是搭接在一起的.

The silver medallist joined the winner in a lap of honour.

银牌和金牌得主一起绕场一周.

I went to overtake him on the back straight on the last lap.

最后一圈时我在非终点直道上超过了他。

My legs failed me and I wasn't able to run the last lap.

我这腿不争气,最后一圈跑不动了.

The baby was wriggling around on my lap.

婴儿在我大腿上扭来扭去。

You don't drop the accident in my lap.

不要把这起事故往我身上推.

I am on the last lap, I must win the race!

我已处于最后阶段, 必须赢得比赛!

There's only one seat so you'll have to sit on my lap .

只有一个座位，你只好坐在我腿上了。

They just haven't been to school before. They're so eager to learn, they lap it up.

他们之前从未上过学。他们求学若渴。