You needn't ask him to come, he will come as a matter of course.

He accepted simply, as a matter of course, the tradition.

事实上，他全盘继承了这一传统。

As a matter of fact, I've brought it along with me.

事实上，我一直带着它。

The elections were conducted only as a matter of form.

那次选举只不过是个形式。

She took the news as a matter of course.

她把这则消息当作理所当然的事承受。

He appears to be strong and healthy, but, as a matter of fact, he suffers from a very weak heart.

他看上去强健，其实他的心脏很衰弱。

'I guess you haven't eaten yet.' — 'As a matter of fact, I have,' said Hunter.

“我想你还没吃吧？”“正好相反，我已经吃了。”亨特说道。

They did not approach their subject solely as a matter of 'pure' theory.

他们并没有把他们的学科完全当作一门“纯”理论学科来对待。

It's not that difficult. As a matter of fact, it's quite easy

这并不那么困难，实际上，容易得很。

He checked up on you as a matter of routine.

他给你做例行检查。

As a matter of prudence, keep a record of all your financial transactions.

为慎重起见，请记下你所有的财务往来。

She refuses to allow her family to help her as a matter of principle.

她不要家人帮忙，对她来说这是个原则问题。

We clean and repair the machines as a matter of routine.

我们定期清洗和修理机器。

Just as a matter of interest, how much did you pay for it?

我只是感兴趣，你这是花多少钱买的？

The government must deal with this as a matter of urgency.

政府必须将此事当作紧急的事情来处理。

We always check people's addresses as a matter of course.

我们总是照例检查一下人们的地址。

On average, about 15 percent of students at elite colleges receive Pell grants, which as a rule of thumb go to students in the bottom half of the income distribution.

平均来看，顶尖学府的学生中，约15%获得了佩尔助学金（Pell），根据经验，该项助学金一般由家庭收入低于中值的学生获得。

As a rule of thumb, if you can't dunk a basketball, you wouldn't be able to escape this asteroid by jumping.

作为经验估算，如果你没法扣篮，那么你就不能通过竖直起跳的方式逃离这颗星球。

As a rule of thumb, if you find yourself wrapping more than three disparate chunks of code in a category, consider making it an expando.

一般说来，如果您发现自己在一个category中包装超过3个根本不同的代码块时，考虑使用expando。

As a rule of thumb, it is recommended that you use between one and two GB of memory per JVM and as much memory as can be afforded for the database.

一个重要原则是，建议每个JVM使用1GB至2GB内存，并为数据库提供尽可能多的内存。

As a rule of thumb, once the fund has returned to investors the capital drawn from them, plus management and other fees, the subsequent profits are split.

一般而言，一旦基金将本金返还给投资者，在扣除管理及其它费用之后，剩余的利润将进行分摊。