But new research suggests roughly two-thirds of couples start out as friends and maintain a platonic2 relationship for long periods before sparking a romance.

Several periods of time later the butcher opens the mail and finds an envelopes from the lawyer:$ 20 due for a consultation2.

过了一段时间，肉店老板在查看邮箱时，看到了一封律师寄来的信，上面写着：请付20美圆的律师咨询费。

Like the Athenians, the Visigoths also disappeared, but not before they had ushered in the period known as the Dark Ages.

同雅典人一样，西哥特人也消亡了，不过是在他们带来一个被称作黑暗时代的时期之后。

I think there's still a minus sign problem somewhere.

我感觉在某个地方仍然有负号的问题。

What would happen if you inserted a minus sign in the middle of your physics equation?

如果你在你的物理方程式的中间插入一个减号，那将会发生什么？

Well, we swept the two components and we put a minus sign.

把两个分量擦掉，然后放个减号进去。

I therefore have to give it a minus sign.

我必须给它，一个负号。

Well, first, I'll take the minus sign out.

首先，把负号拿出来。

He smoked my stogie too?

他抽了我的雪茄？

He smoked cheap ( and smelly) cigars because he could not imagine spending as much as$ 2 on a stogie.

沃尔克则抽着廉价（还有点难闻）的雪茄，原因是他最多肯为每支廉价雪茄支付2美元。

But cigar smokers around the country are fed up with smoking bans that prevent them from enjoying stogies in cigar bars with friends.

禁烟令使他们不能跟朋友一起在雪茄吧享受快乐时光。

It seemed too late to start chastising myself for being a American tourist dumb enough to be coaxed into the night for a few stogies.

这时候才开始自责似乎太晚了，我真是个无知的美国游客，蠢到为几支雪茄就被骗到了这个黑咕隆咚的地方。

What if the only thing inside's a bunch of stogies?

但是如果里面就只有笨重的长靴呢？

I smoke old stogies I have found.

我抽我找到的廉价雪茄。

I have nothing to add to my earlier statement.

我对我早先说的话没有什么补充的。

These options would actually worsen the economy and add to the deficit

这些选择实际上只会造成经济形势更加恶化，赤字愈见增加。

Flake the tuna and add to the sauce.

把金枪鱼切成片，加上调味汁。

This latest incident will add to the pressure on the government

最近的这次事件将会给政府增加压力。

The fighter pilot executed a flawless whiffling maneuver, impressing the crowd below.

战斗机飞行员完成了完美的飞行特技，让下方的观众印象深刻。

The politician's speech was full of whiffling, he never gave a straight answer to any question.

那位政治家的演讲充满了言不由衷，他从未对任何问题给出直截了当的回答。

The bird whiffling its wings caused a sudden gust of air that rustled the nearby leaves.

这只鸟扇动翅膀，引起了突然的一阵风，让附近的树叶沙沙作响。