1:Agreement was desirable yet impossible.2:Both sides were aware that they had far more nuclear warheads and missiles than they needed.3:The Soviet side also knew that the cost of maintaining nuclear weapons was crippling the economy.4:Less fully appreciated was the fragility of the balance of terror, which was at risk less from warmongering than from misunderstandings, glitches or accidents.5:On several occasions during the cold war, only thin threads of luck and good judgment averted the apocalypse.6:But agreement meant crossing icesheets of mistrust.7:And on the American side, Reagan’s fixation on the Strategic Defence Initiative, or Star Wars—space-based missile-busting lasers—proved an insuperable obstacle.

1:达成协议是可取的，但却是不可能的。2:双方都意识到，他们拥有的核弹头和导弹远远超过了所需。3:苏联方面也知道，维持核武器的成本正在损害经济。4:人们没有充分认识到的是恐怖平衡的脆弱，这种脆弱与其说是由于战争煽动，不如说是由于误解、故障或事故。5:在冷战期间，只有几次运气和良好的判断力才避免了这场灾难。6:但达成协议意味着跨越不信任的冰原。7:而在美国方面，里根对战略防御计划(即“星球大战”)的执着——即以太空为基础的导弹摧毁激光——被证明是一个无法逾越的障碍。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-书评--《一个不可能实现的梦想:里根,戈尔巴乔夫和一个

1: Disappointingly for Mr Santorum, Peorians seemed to have faith in Mr Romney’s ability to repair the economy. 2: People for whom that was the most important issue voted for him overwhelmingly, according to exit polls. 3: They also had misgivings about Mr Santorum’s emphasis on social issues. [...]114: At an event he held also in Peoria, a veteran said of his fixation with abortion: “It’s the last thing we should care about. If we keep spending, we are going to end up like Greece.” 5: Yet like a moth to the flame Mr Santorum keeps returning to such topics, and all the controversy that comes with them. 6: During a speech he gave at a religious school in the Chicago suburbs, two men in the audience stood up and kissed, prompting predictable hostility from the crowd.

1:皮奥利亚的人民抱着对桑托勒姆的失望之情转而寄希望于罗姆尼能够挽救萎靡的经济。2:据投票后民调显示，那些把失业率视为重中之重的人都坚定地把票投给了罗姆尼。3:他们同样误解了桑托勒姆强调的社会问题。[...]114:在另一场皮奥利亚的集会上，一个退伍老兵表示自己支持终止计划：“这是最后一件值得我们关注的事，如果我们继续挥霍，下场会和希腊一样惨。”5:于是桑托勒姆如飞蛾扑火一般又回到了这类话题，以及这类话题所来了种种争议上。6:他曾在芝加哥郊区的一所教会学校讲话，其间两个男人从观众席里站起来拥吻，毫不意外地招来了观众的反感。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-共和党参选

[...]111: Mr Sharma argues that emerging-market funds have lost sight of local idiosyncrasies in their fixation with global macroeconomic forces. 2: Because of this “macro mania”, funds make “little or no distinction between Poland and Peru, India and Indonesia”, which he suggests further synchronises these markets. 3: Emerging markets may have little in common except the funds created to invest in them, but that in itself creates a powerful affinity between them. 4: The term “emerging markets” has helped to create the world it named.

[...]111:沙尔曼认为，新兴市场的投资，由于对全球宏观调控力的盲目依赖，已丢失因地制宜的前瞻性。2:而这类“宏观热”也导致“波兰和秘鲁，印度和印尼几无特色，如出一辙”。对此，沙尔曼提议要再进一步协调这些市场。3:新兴市场国间除了资本来源外再无共性，但是这些资本本身就产生了强大的联系。4:可以说，是“新兴市场”一词促使了新兴市场的产生。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-新兴市场,取舍之间

1: Mr Diamond is at his most impressed when it comes to tribal family life. 2: He writes of missionary children who prefer the playgroups of traditional societies that bring together children of different ages to the solitary fixation on video games that are common back home. 3: Raising children is a communal affair in which the elderly are deeply involved, unlike what happens in most Western countries. 4: He cites studies that show that an African Aka pygmy infant, for example, is looked after by at least seven people and babies in the Efe tribe by as many as 14. 5: At the same time, he writes, children in traditional households seem to enjoy more autonomy. 6: In the Kalahari the !Kung do not resort to physical punishment; instead children are allowed to slap and insult their parents. 7: And New Guinea Highlander children are encouraged to play with knives and with fire, precisely so that they are able to learn from their mistakes.

1:最让戴蒙德教授印象深刻的是部落的家庭生活。2:他书中写到，比起一回到家一律死盯着电动游戏的孩子相比，传教士的孩子更喜欢在传统社会的操场上玩，在那里，不同年纪的孩子能在一起嬉闹追逐。3:与大部分西方国家不同的是，在部落家庭里，抚养孩子是集体的事情，老人是这个过程中绝对的主角。4:有研究显示，非洲地区的阿卡俾格米矮人族的婴儿由至少7人照顾，埃菲社里的婴儿至少由14个人照顾。5:他书中就引用了这项研究。同时，他还写到，传统家庭长大的孩子似乎想要更多的自主性。6: 喀拉哈沙漠 the Kung人种不会体罚孩子，相反允许孩子侮辱、打骂家长。 7:为了让孩子可以从错误中切身地汲取教训，新几内亚的高地人鼓励孩子玩火，耍刀。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-传统社会 不绕弯子

[...]11Mr Barghouti’s frustration boils over at the well-meaning curiosity of friends who wonder at his fixation with his village and who point to the beautiful vastness of the world beyond Palestine. The author reminds them, and the reader, that he, unlike them, had no choice in his wanderings and has little hope of returning home. A salutary lesson.

[...]11巴尔古提的沮丧激发了朋友们善意的好奇心，他们不知道他对自己村庄的固恋，指出巴勒斯坦以外的世界美丽浩瀚。作者提醒他们，也提醒读者，他不像他们，在流浪中他别无选择，回家的希望渺茫。真是一个有益的教训。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-梦之味 Scent of dreams

But his fixation with finding out who was the first person to stand up on a wave in various different places is not for the casual reader.

而他本人最喜欢的是探寻谁在何处第一个在海浪上站立，显然这合普通读者口味。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Methods: Sixteen cases with centrofacial complex fracture were performed restoration and fixation with titanium mesh.

方法：对16例面中部复合骨折行钛网修复固定。

属类：中国大陆-www.ceps.com.tw-

You can choose Pink Floyd or ABBA or someone else entirely to describe your fixation with money this week.

你可以选择摇滚乐队平克•弗洛伊德！或者瑞典阿巴乐队，或者其他人来描述你本周的金钱困境。

属类：英汉句库-www.hjenglish.com-

You may rage and rant about the fixation with the rectum, but the results are there for all to see by the time you leave.

您可能会对直肠固定发怒责骂，但是当你结束疗程准备离开时，疗效可是有目共睹的啊。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Simple fixation with neck band and analgesic were used to treat cases with mild neck pain and torticollis less than 1 week.

如果颈疼和斜颈症状比较轻，而且持续存在不到1周，简单的用颈领固定和口服止疼药物。

属类：中国大陆-www.ceps.com.tw-

Some officials say the most worrying element of the infrastructure-heavy stimulus package is the fixation with building airports.

一些官员表示，在侧重基础设施的刺激计划中，最令人担心的因素是对修建机场的痴迷。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

The Save: Like Tom Cruise, Gibson has an unhealthy fixation with being the hero.

拯救策略：就像汤姆克鲁斯一样，吉普森走的是一套不利于发展的英雄演绎套路。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Until the recent war with Georgia, the West's fixation with Russia was being fuelled by the country's attractive investment prospects.

直到最近与格鲁吉亚的冲突之前，是俄罗斯诱人的投资前景激发了西方的关注。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

In theory, at least. Global markets' fixation with China's every move in managing its reserves will not fade away so easily.

至少在理论上即是如此.但中国外汇储备的一举一动对全球市场的影响料将无法轻易消退。

属类：英汉句库-cn.reuters.com-

Treatment of choice is open reduction and internal fixation with or without bone aft in chronic cases.

治疗的优先选择是：开放性整复内固定加上或不加上植骨。

属类：中国大陆-www.ceps.com.tw-

A fixation with revenues and costs, though more financially rewarding, is less glamorous than life with the stars.

注重收入和成本，尽管能获得更丰厚的经济回报，却不如有明星相伴的日子那么令人神往。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-