I'm afraid I can't agree with you. That's a good way of giving information, but it's not a good way of persuading people. For one thing, it's boring, and people aren't going to read an ad that looks boring. For another thing, one computer looks very like

恐怕我不能同意你的意见。那是个通报信息的好办法，但并非是使人信服的好办法。一是它很乏味，人们是不会去读一则看起来很乏味的广告的。其次，计算机彼此都很相像。人们不会记住产品的名字的。

Have you brought anything to weigh the flesh?

你带来了称肉的器具吗？

When they objected, they were killed.

他们反抗时就被杀害。

And because I was deaf, I could not learn to speak.

因为我耳聋，我不能学说话。

Putting my hand on her face, she spelled l-a-u-g-h.

她将我的手在她的面部，就拼写l-a-u-g-h。

As the Maori had no written language, the stories of Maori history were handed down from generation to generation.

由于毛利人当时没有书面语，毛利人的历史故事是一代一代传下来的。