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ON THE face of it, Congress has seldom been busier, or the parties more ready to co-operate.

表面看来，国会前所未有地忙碌，两党较前更愿相互合作。

The recollection of Edward had been seldom absent from her, and her dreams had been filled with his image.

她无时无刻不想念爱德华，她的睡梦中充满了他的形象。

and his elder children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century.

由于母亲挣钱和大孩子也拿相当的工资，父亲很少再象本世纪初那样是一家之主了。

Seldom, indeed, did one of them break out of the class into which he had been born. Almost as seldom did they even think of trying to.

实际上，极少有人能突破他出生的那个阶级的局限，甚至只有极少数人有突破的念头。

If the company goes down the pan, ordinary shareholders are at the end of the line and seldom get a crumb.

如果公司破产的话，普通股股东排在清盘队伍的最后面，连一点面包屑都分不到。

It not seldom happens than what seems to be a difficulty is easily overcome by a young person.

常常发生这样的情况，似乎很难的一件事被一个年轻人轻易地克服了。

I seldom lost to a girl, and I seldom got to know a girl like you. You are pure, active, determined and tenacious.

难得会输给你，也难道能认识你这么好的女孩，交你这么完美的朋友：单纯、活泼、坚强、执着。

Globalization tends to be seen as a threat and seldom as an opportunity.

全球化更多的是被看做一个威胁，很少被当成一场机遇。

Popes seldom weigh in on economic matters and rarely in the form of an encyclical, one of the most authoritative forms of papal writing.

教皇们很少会讨论经济问题，也很少以通谕的形式颁布。通谕是教皇文件中最具权威性的一种。

Although concept maps have been used in many fields, we have seldom seen the application in the collaborative knowledge building.

概念图在诸多领域得到广泛应用，但是在协作知识建构方面的应用比较少见。

In some places they were still in rags, but you could seldom find a man and a wife wearing the same pair of pants.

有些地方，人们仍然穿得很破，但夫妻合用一条裤子的事很少了。

I thought him a man of few words, as he seldom spoke on the few occasions when we met.

我以前见过他几次，他很少说话，我还以为他是一个不善言谈之人。

A man in such a hurry as you are to get results seldom learns quickly.

一个人向你这样急于求成是不会有很快进步的。

If it is true that great princes seldom appear, how much more rare must a great lawgiver be?

如果说伟大的君主很少数此案事实是的话，一个伟大的立法者的出现又该有多稀罕呢？

When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista.

在我们健康时，觉得死亡几乎是不可想象的，即便偶尔想起，也觉得死亡的日子正在自己无边的视野中不断远离。

In the United States men seldom compliment women, but they daily show how much they esteem them.

在美国，男人很少恭维女性，但他们的每天表现，却证明他们是怎样尊重女性。

She was lame in her knees with the gout, and, therefore, seldom stirred out of her room, so sometimes wanted company.

她因患痛风，膝盖留下残疾，行动不便，很少出屋，有时便希望有人陪伴。

It is simple enough to say, but seldom easy to do.

说起来很简单，但是做起来不容易。

She had not foreseen anything of this, and her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of the word "last. "

她根本没有料到这一招，她心里抵御不住“最后一次”这个字眼的悲感力量。

She had a lot of friends and was usually asked out in the evenings, so she seldom spent an evening at home.

她有很多朋友，晚上常被邀请外出，因此她晚上很少在家里呆着。