Particularly in countries with long agrarian traditions--and vocal green lobbies--the idea seems against nature.

特别是在有悠久的农业生产传统和主张环保的游说集团的国家里,转基因食品的主意似乎有悖自然。

Pullmans were hauling them to and fro about the land, papers were greeting them with interesting mentions, the elegant lobbies of hotels and the glow of polished dining-rooms were keeping them close within the walled city.

头等卧车拉着他们在国内到处跑,报纸刊登有趣的新闻向他们表示欢迎,旅馆里雅致的门厅和明亮的餐厅里的一片灯火辉煌将他们紧紧地围在禁城之中。

After which the curtain again fell, and the spectators poured forth from the theatre into the lobbies and salon

演完这些以后，大幕又落了下来，观众们从座席里蜂拥到了前厅和休息室里。

In recent years, concern for public health has taken priority over the power of tobacco lobbies and pressure groups, causing remarkable progress in deterring smoking.

最近几年,对公共健康的关心超过了烟草公司利益集团的力量,在阻止吸烟方面取得了显著的进步。

||1:Since the RSPB was started in 1889 by a group of women worried about the use of feathers in hats, its remit has widened.||2:The charity now runs 212 nature reserves and lobbies the government about broad issues such as climate change and renewable energy.||3:It has also started to emphasise that its main focus is far broader than just birds.||4:In 2013 a TV advert showed a young girl watching for frogs and hedgehogs in her garden; the same year the RSPB magazine Birds was rebranded Nature’s Home.||5:People expect all of Nature to be connected, says Mike Clarke, the RSPB’s chief executive. “If you go on about birds,” he adds, “you become associated with a bird-watching club.”

||1:1889年由一群妇女建立的英国皇家鸟类保护协会，其初衷是担忧在帽子上大量装饰鸟的羽毛会影响鸟类的生存。但自成立之日起，该协会涉足的领域一直在扩大。||2:该协会现在运营着212个自然保护区。同时，还就诸如气候变化以及可再生能源这样的问题不断跟政府进行交涉。||3:协会自身也已经开始强调，他们的关注点远不只是鸟类。||4:2013年，该协会在电视上登出广告主题是一个小女孩在仔细观察她家花园中青蛙和刺猬，同年，协会自办杂志《鸟类》更名为《自然之家》。||5:人们期望的是关注所有跟自然界相关的事物，协会理事长 Mike Clarke表示“如果我们继续只专注于鸟类，那我们和一家观鸟俱乐部有什么区别？”

||1:To Ethan Nadelmann, the head of the Drug Policy Alliance, which lobbies for an end to the failed “war on drugs”, this suggests that six federal prosecutors may be acting on their own, perhaps even in conflict with the Obama administration.||2:The president, in this scenario, is too afraid to touch anything that looks soft on drugs in an election year and stands weakly by.

||1:伊桑-南德尔曼是药物政策联盟的执行董事，一直为停止失败的毒品战争而进行游说。对他来说这意味着六位联邦检察官可能会独自行动，甚至会与奥巴马政府相冲突。||2:对于这样的情况，正处大选年的奥巴马总统非常恐惧，不敢在毒品问题上表现得很软弱，必须强势出击。

||1:In the subsequent eight years of litigation, arguments centred on a basic proposition.||2:American law prohibits patents of nature.||3:Mayo said that Prometheus had claimed ownership of a natural process.||4:Big doctors’ and hospitals’ lobbies agreed.||5:Uphold Prometheus’s patents, they argued, and companies would rush to patent natural phenomena.||6:The inevitable legal minefield would stifle new discoveries, they insisted.

||1:在接下来的八年诉讼过程中，争论主要集中在一个基本的定论上。||2:美国法律规定自然现象不能被授予专利。||3:梅奥称普罗米修斯实验室就是拥有这种自然的过程的所有权。||4:私人医生和医院的大型游说团也同意这一说法。||5:他们称，如果拥护普罗米修斯专利，大公司们就会争着抢着去申请自然现象的专利。||6:这种无法避免的法律雷池将会扼杀新发明新发现，他们坚持到。

Most would debouch into intermediate sky lobbies , where passengers could change lifts.

大部分都是涌进中间的大厅，从那里乘客们再换乘电梯。

Sky lobbies mark the frontiers between these uses.

中间的大厅就是这些不同功用建筑的分界点。

Local food lets farming lobbies campaign against imports under the guise of environmentalism.

本地食品主义给反对进口的农业游说活动套上了环保的伪装。

Almost three years after it was announced, Surface is still a novelty in a few hotel lobbies and retail stores.

差不多被发布了三年以后，它仍然鲜见于酒店大堂和零售商店。

The lobbies of Wall Street will, it is true, resist onerous regulation of capital requirements or liquidity, after this crisis is over.

诚然，在这场危机结束后，华尔街的游说者将反对资本金要求或流动性方面的繁重监管。

But the UN is resisting pressure from some Western governments and lobbies to increase its efforts to undermine Hamas’s creed.

但是联合国正抵制来自西方国家和游说集团的压力，拒绝加大力度逐渐削弱哈马斯的信条。

Yet bilateral trade has doubled in the past decade, and business lobbies are urging their governments to resume talks.

但是在过去的十年中，双边贸易增长了近一倍，商界也在一直游说政府恢复贸易对话。

Art replaced fresh flowers in elevator lobbies .

电梯大厅里，艺术品代替了鲜花。

These are also the least upsetting to the interests of powerful lobbies , particularly in finance.

对于强大的游说集团，特别是在金融行业，这也是对最不会影响到他们利益的做法。

The Doha round had to contend with powerful farm lobbies in India, Europe and the United States.

多哈谈判不得不努力在农业大国印度以及欧洲和美国之间斡旋。

Reformers are stymied by medical lobbies , nervous patients and heaps of regulations about who may do what and where

改革者们为医疗游说者们，紧张不安的病人们及众多的条条框框所阻碍

Design of smokeproof stairways and fire lift lobbies of tall public buildings

高层公共建筑防烟楼梯间及消防电梯间设计

Public Elevator Lobbies and Lift Cars

公共电梯厅和电梯轿厢

Sweeping talk of a free-trade area is one thing; negotiating a deal quite another, requiring an attack on entrenched lobbies .

关于自由贸易区的广泛商谈是一回事，达成协议完全是另一回事，这需要打击根深蒂固的说客势力。

THE LOBBIES OF Congress are crowded with representatives of the X industry.

国会的大厅里挤满了X行业的代表。

Red polyester lanterns dangle across Shanghai’s store-fronts while office lobbies are a riot of scarlet and gold.

红灯笼摇曳在上海各家商店门前，写字楼大堂里随处可见大红色与金色的装饰。

There are also powerful lobbies , from the National Rifle Association to the Safari Club International.

还有一大批有着三寸不烂之舌的说客，有来自全国步枪协会的，也有来自国际狩猎俱乐部的。

The slowness of the count contrasts with the frenetic pace of negotiations in Baghdad’s hotel lobbies and party headquarters.

缓慢的点票与在巴格达酒店大厅和各政党总部进行的发狂般高速的谈判形成了鲜明的对比。

They are better paid, better qualified and more influential than the regulators. Legislators are easily seduced by booms and lobbies .

金融家报酬更高、资历更深、影响力比起政策制定者来说也较大，立法者很容易受到经济繁荣和游说集团的诱惑。

Months after opening, the decorated lobbies and restaurants of the latest Financial Street hotels are often empty on a typical weekday.

金融街那些新建酒店已经开业数月，但在平常工作日期间，装修精美的大堂和餐厅经常空无一人。

Despite campaigns by local lobbies and charities, the penal code in Lebanon still imposes lighter sentences for crimes of honour.

尽管黎巴嫩的游说议员者们和慈善机构组织了多场运动，但当地法律仍给予荣誉杀害犯人较轻的惩罚。

Though this notion is wildly popular with the political left, conservatives and business lobbies loathe it.

尽管这一理念在左翼政治势力那里备受青睐，保守势力及商业游说组织却对它深恶痛绝。

Artificial light environment design of hotel lobbies

酒店建筑大堂人工光环境设计探讨