1·I just scooped up a little rice and ate even less at every meal. My mother would order me to swallow down more after I finished eating and droping my chopsticks despite that I was full.
每次,我只盛了一点点的饭,吃的很少,就放下手中的筷子,妈妈知道我又吃不下去了,便叫我咽下去。
2·For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
你们犹大人在我圣山怎样喝了苦杯,万国也必照样常常地喝。且喝且咽,他们就归于无有。
3·You swallow it down?
你就把它咽下去了?
4·If you are chewing the food, then talk after you swallow it down.
如果你正在咀嚼食物,那么就等咽下食物后再开口说话。
5·When those kinds of thoughts scrabble into my aging brain as I hold some magical new device in my vein-laced hands, I will bite down and swallow my confusion and anger.
当这些想法涌入我老化的脑壳,而恰巧此时我青筋暴起的手上握着一些充满魔力的新科技产品,我会忍住的,我会把所有的疑惑与愤怒统统咽下去。
6·When you swallow food, it travels down your esophagus into your stomach. Here enzymes and acids go to work on the food, beginning the process of breaking the food down.
你吞下的食物会穿过食道进入胃里,胃里的各种酶和酸会分解食物,开始消化的过程。
7·Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit.
我们好像阴间,把他们活活吞下。他们如同下坑的人,被我们囫囵吞了。
8·While it can be overkill to go to the monastic extreme of 100 bites per mouthful, make sure you chew your food enough so that it is well broken down before you swallow.
虽然寺庙要求每口一百下有些极端,但要确保你把食物咀嚼充分,食物在你吞下之前已经分解。
9·That’s hard to swallow in an industry where “a buck” is code for $1 million, and where top producers can pull down 20 or 30 “bucks” a year, or even more.
很难想象一个行业里,一头雄鹿意味着1百万美元, 那些顶层的高管们得到 20或30头雄鹿一年,甚至更多,除非你在华尔街工作。
10·Make a habit of keeping an eye of the financial sector and jotting down words or phrases you don't understand or conclusions you find hard to swallow.
养成一个好习惯——关注金融部门并记下你不理解的单词或语句,或记下很难消化的结论部分。