"Not at first, perhaps," said the Hatter, "but you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked."
“也许一开始没有，”帽商说，“不过你想要多久就可以把时间保持到一点半。”
She wore one of his shirts, a shirt that had once been blue but had faded until the color could not be named, and a pair of his breeches.
她穿着他的一件衬衣，这件衬衣曾经是蓝色的，但已经褪得说不上是什么颜色了，还穿了他一条马裤。
Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.
汉娜开始思考她该如何能帮上忙，但显然一个五岁的孩子在解决无家可归的问题上能做的事情并不多。
Right now we're looking at not one but two looming crises, either of which could produce a global disaster.
现在我们看到即将来临的不是一个，而是两个危机，任何一个都会产生全球性灾难。
One risk, however, is that a faulty part could cause problems not on just one product but across many product lines.
但有一个风险是，如果一个零部件存在缺陷，出现问题的可能就不是一种产品，而是多个产品线。
"Yes, without a doubt he could," says Stuart Pimm. "But his prediction is not as interesting as one might think.
“是的，毫无疑问他能预测”斯图特皮姆说，“但是他的预测不会像人们想的那样有趣。”
According to one study, some kinds of cocoa could not only taste good, but be good for you, too.
一项研究表明，某些可可品种不仅味道好，而且对身体也很有益。
The person said a last-minute snag could hold up the deal, but Ford did not expect one to emerge as a major stumbling block.
这位人士说，最后关头出现的阻碍仍有可能使交易陷入停顿，但福特方面认为不会出现重大障碍。
Warren Buffett may - or may not - be a genius, but he did at least one very smart (or lucky) thing: he stopped buying stocks when he could not find anything to buy.
沃伦·巴菲特可能是- - -也有可能不是一个天才，但是他至少确实做了一件非常聪明(或是幸运)的事情：那就是，当他发现没什么可以购买的时候，随即也停止了购买股票。
She had one year of education and could not read or write, but said that she hoped to go to school again someday.
她只上过一年学，不会读写，她说某一天希望能再去上学。
This could be even improved if not just one but many Windows PCs would join the cluster.
如果不仅是一台而是很多WindowsPC加入到集群，这个效率可能还会更高。
Which means physicians could one day know whether to prescribe antibiotics, which can treat bacteria but not viruses.
这些结论意味着总有一天医生们可以明确某种疾病是由病毒感染造成还是由细菌感染造成，这样就可以为医生是否处方抗生素提供明确依据。
They were lonely and sad people, all three of them, and they would not make one another less sad, but they could, with great care, make a world that would accommodate their loneliness.
他们三人都是那么孤独而忧伤，他们在一起也许不能够互相怃平伤痛，但是也许，只要用心，他们会创造出一个能够容纳他们孤独人生的世界。
It's the first in our planet's history where one species - ours - has Earth's future in its hands, and could jeopardise not only itself, but life's immense potential.
在我们地球的历史上，这是第一次有一个物种——我们的人类——掌握了地球的未来，不仅可能危及其本身，而且可能危及生命的巨大潜力。
Not a very big one, not a very complicated integral, but imagine it could get potentially much harder.
也不是太大的麻烦，也不是一个非常复杂的积分，但估计可能变得更加困难。
To be honest, not everyone could agree on this one, but that made it even more interesting.
说实话，不是所有的人都同意这一个话题，但正因为如此，这个话题才变得更加有趣。
One might think that the excess calories associated with alcohol consumption could, in theory, contribute to obesity, but that's not what we saw in these individuals.
可能有人会认为，从理论上来讲，饮酒提供的过多热量会促使人肥胖，不过我们从这些人身上看到的却不是这么回事。
But any new rules, if not carefully formulated and, above all, enforced, could provide a one-off opportunity for mass expropriation.
但是，任何新规则，若不能审慎制定和(最重要的)执行，都有可能导致一次性的大规模剥夺。
So, the person could use a thin client or a thick one, the hardware could be changed in time, the operating system it runs upon could be changed or updated, but the user should not be affected.
因此，人们可以使用一个瘦客户，也可以使用胖客户端，硬件可以随时变换，软件运行的操作系统也可以被改变或更新，但使用者却不受影响。
Davis could not say whether the therapy helped shrink tumors in the patients, but one patient did get a second cycle of treatment, suggesting it might be.
戴维斯还不能说明这种疗法是否有助于缩小患者的肿瘤，但其中一个患者确实接受了第二个周期的治疗，这表明或许有此可能。
One could keep all of them and still write bad English, but one could not write the kind of stuff that I quoted in those five specimens at the beginning of this article.
你可以遵守所有上述的规则而照样写出糟糕的英语，但你不会写出我在本文开头引用的五个样品中的那类东西。
The energy from one person's workout may not be much, but 100 people could contribute significantly to a facility's power needs.
如果一个能做这个动作产生的能量可能很少，但是100个人的贡献就可以满足一些用电设备的需要。
He assured the captain, with an oath, that he had marked but one, and could not tell who had chalked the rest, so that he could not distinguish the house which the cobbler had stopped at.
他向首领保证，赌咒发誓，他只做了一家记号，不知道谁标记了剩下的，因此他不能区分出皮匠在门口停下的那间房子。
I had no intention of buying one, but I could not conceal the fact that I was impressed by the size of the diamonds.
我根本不想买，但我不能掩饰这样一个事实：其钻石之大给我留下了深刻的印象。
A lateral move may not be considered the most ideal one, but it could prove to be worthwhile.
横向变更可能不是最理想的选择，但是经过证明这样做是值得的。
A lateral move may not be considered the most ideal one, but it could prove to be worthwhile.
横向变更可能不是最理想的选择，但是经过证明这样做是值得的。
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