It was his way to buy out the most unlikely claimant

他总是先收买一个对继承遗产最没有希望的人。

属类：综合句库--

He keeps bobbing up in the most unlikely places.

他总是在极不可能出现的地方突然出现.

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

And had I gotten it into the water, I make no question but I should have began the maddest voyage, and the most unlikely to be perform'd, that ever was undertaken.

要是我的独木舟真的下水了,我肯定会进行一次有史以来最为疯狂、最不可思议的航行了。

属类：文学表达-英语名著-鲁宾逊漂流记

He seems to pop up in the most unlikely places.

在他似乎绝不可能到的地方,他往往就在那里出现.

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

1: The fear of executing innocent people is helping drive the trend for repeal. 2: Between 2000 and 2011 an average of five people on death rows were exonerated each year. 3: This is no small thing in a country where 3,199 people sit on death row and where only a few months ago Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, was cheered during an election debate when he bragged about executing criminals. 4: But Texas is unlikely to change its policy in the near future. 5: And in Connecticut, despite the change in the law, those on death row will remain there.

1:担心处死无辜的民众有利于推动废除死刑的潮流。2:在2000年到2011年期间每年在死囚区中平均有五人被赦免。3:美国共有3199个死囚犯，仅仅数月前德克萨斯州州长里克-派瑞还在大选辩论中吹嘘着处死死囚犯，并引来台下一阵欢呼声。在这样的一个国家内，这么高的赦免率可不是小事。4:但是德克萨斯州近期不太可能改变政策。5:在康涅狄格州，即使法律上做了更改，死囚区的囚犯仍旧会呆在那里。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-废除死刑(2)

1:BRIAN Lamb could hardly be a more unlikely media entrepreneur—a modest and civilised man in a world with more than its fair share of egomaniacs and vulgarians.2:But he was a great one nonetheless.3:He came up with the idea of C-Span in the late 1970s when he was the Washington bureau chief forCablevision magazine.4:And he presided over its growth from a start-up with a staff of four into a quirky Goliath with a couple of hundred employees, three channels and a radio station.

1:几乎找不到比布莱恩·兰博更不像媒体企业家的人了——在这个充斥着极端利己主义者与庸俗的暴发户的世界里，他一直保持着谦逊有礼的品质。2:不管怎么说他都是个伟大的人。3:在19世纪70年代末时，当他还是华盛顿有线电视杂志社社长时，他提出了C-Span的概念（把公共事务网与有线电视结合起来 ）。4:在他的领导下，一家只有四名员工公司经历跌宕起伏，变成了有数百名员工、三个电视频道和一个广播电台的巨头。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-我是一台无处不在的摄像机

1:And of course it is also occurring in fiscally straitened times, though it looks as though this will affect veterans’ services less than other parts of the federal government.2:Though there have been some small fee increases for veterans covered by Tricare, the military health-insurance programme, significant cuts to veterans’ benefits are unlikely, and for good reason.3:Military pay is far from generous, and the benefits are comprehensive but hardly gold-plated or easy to navigate.4:Not for nothing is a popular online forum for veterans wending their way through the bureaucracy of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) called HadIt.5:com.

1:尽管看上去预算紧缺对联邦政府其它项目的影响要大于对退役士兵所享服务的影响，但随着大量劳动力的涌入，伴随而来的还有预算紧张。2:虽然对于加入军队健康保险计划Tricare的退役士兵来，支付费用有小幅上调，但大幅削减退伍士兵的待遇是不可能的。3:说起来军队待遇远说不上慷慨，各种津贴林林总总，但数额都不大，得到也绝非易事。4:为津贴是一个热门在线论坛，帮助退役士兵如何在退伍士兵事务部（简称VA）办理各项事宜。5:该网站叫HadIt.com（受够了.com）不是没有原因的。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-美国退役士兵归国后面临的困难

1: Despite some Democrats’ rhetoric, big new tax increases are highly unlikely. 2: Mr Obama proposes to cut the deficit by returning the top marginal income-tax rate to the 39.6% level of the late 1990s. 3: Between 1932 and 1944, by contrast, the tax rate on top incomes rose from 25% to 94%. 4: Such confiscatory rates are hard to imagine now. 5: But the resumption of the pre-recession trend may change the political debate.

1:尽管一些民主党人善于言辞，但大幅提高税收几乎是不可能的。2:为了减少赤字，奥巴马提议将富人的边缘收入税率调回至20世纪90年代的水平，即39.6%。3:相比之下，在1932-1944年间，对富人征收的收入税率却从25%提高到94%。4:如今如此高的征收率已是难以想象的了。5:然而，但贫富差距的走势如果恢复到大衰退时期之前，那就可能会改变这场政治辩论。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-差距再次扩大

Her French was the wrong sort, incomprehensible to her pupils, and she seemed unlikely either to prosper or stay.

她的法语也不对劲儿，很难让学生们听明白；看起来，她在这儿既过不好，也呆不长。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-在刚果行医的女医生Lyn Lusi

In 2004, Alan Greenspan dismissed talk of a housing bubble: "a national severe price distortion, " he declared, was "most unlikely . "

2004年，阿伦·格林斯潘不再讨论房地产泡沫：“一个国家严重扭曲的价格”是“最不可能发生的”。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

But to those in the know, even the most unlikely turn of events need not come as a surprise.

不过，对于消息灵通人士来说，即使最不可能的事情发生了，他们也不会大惊小怪。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

But, without a big restructuring, these countries are now most unlikely to be able to finance themselves in the market on bearable terms.

但是，倘若不实施大规模的债务重组，这几个国家现在极不可能以可忍受的条款在市场上筹措到资金。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

But I am not: a world of beggar-my-neighbour policy is most unlikely to end well.

但我不是：一个充斥着以邻为壑政策的世界，最不可能会有美好的结局。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

In practice, with the Arab League rejecting the validity of the warrant, this is most unlikely .

而在实际操作中，由于阿拉伯联盟反对此逮捕令的有效性，这一情况最不可能发生。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

You could say that it is most unlikely ever to come out.

你可能会说这种情况发生的可能性最小。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Yet taxpayers are most unlikely to take the ethical view incorporated into a very low discount rate.

然而，纳税人几乎不可能接受极低贴现率所体现的道德伦理。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

In practice, party cells are most unlikely to be debating ideology with company management.

实际上，党支部不可能与公司管理层讨论意识形态问题。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Carry a notebook on you at all times - after all, inspiration can strike in the most unlikely of places.

随身带上一个笔记本——毕竟，在一些最不可能的地方也会闪现灵感。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

So whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

所以，不论梦选了什么作为象征，其实是与这件事情本身完全不同的。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

You are most unlikely to find your ideal job straight out of business school, he says, so accept the "least worst" job you are offered.

他说，你绝不可能刚从商学院出来就找到自己理想的工作，所以，接受你得到的“最不那么糟糕的”工作机会。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

pop up: eg. He seems to pop up in the most unlikely places.

他似乎老在最不可能出现的地方出现。

属类：英汉句库-blog.hjenglish.com-

He seems to pop up in the most unlikely place.

他往往在似乎绝不可能到的地方出现。

属类：中国大陆-www.chinadaily.com.cn-

I believe that the best place to look for the behavior that reflects good software development skills is perhaps the most unlikely .

我相信，寻找能反映优秀的软件开发技巧的行为的最佳地方是不太可能的。

属类：IT行业-www-128.ibm.com-

It is now most unlikely to prove inflationary.

现在下调利率是最不可能引发通胀的了。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

The platypus is among nature's most unlikely animals.

鸭嘴兽是自然界最不可思议的动物之一。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

As with Hizbullah, Hamas's "resistance" to Israel has made it popular and delivered it to power. It is most unlikely to bend the knee.

在对待黎巴嫩真主党的问题上，哈马斯对以色列的“抵抗”让该组织变得久负盛名并且威力无穷；绝不会屈膝低头。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

In this battle, the surplus countries are most unlikely to win.

在这场战争中，盈余国家最不可能获胜。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

This is most unlikely to be true but if it is, something has gone badly wrong.

这不可能是真的，否则就是哪里出现了严重问题。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

It's most unlikely this was the work of one person working alone.

这几乎不可能是一个人可以独自完成的工作。

属类：英汉句库-blog.hjenglish.com-

Which means Occupy is shaping up to be one of the most unlikely case studies in the history of marketing.

这意味着“占领”正在成为营销史上其中一个看起来最不可能出现的研究案例。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-