True, I made a lot of profit on some deals; but I ended up by losing everything.

的确，我在一些交易中赚了很多钱；但我最终失去了一切。

During their years at college, these conscientious students are convinced that they are not working hard enough and will fail their finals, yet end up by getting huge firsts.

这些兢兢业业的学生们始终认为自已还不够努力，大考会不及格，结果却捧回一堆一堆的第一名。

Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident.

巴克兰最后精神失常，成了个话都说不清的废人，在克莱翰的一家精神病院里度过了最后的岁月，恰好就在离造成曼特尔终生残疾的出事地点不太远的地方。

Between mildness and mere flatness there is only a very thin margin.A writer whose thoughts lack depth and originality may try to write a simple style and end up by being insipid.

在柔和与平淡无味之间只隔着薄薄的一层纸。 没有思想深度和创造性的作家可能试图写得柔和些，但结果常常是使作品味同嚼蜡。

" My eagerness to criticize myself took all the fight out of him. He ended up by taking me to lunch; and before we parted, he gave me a check and another commission" .

我那自我批评的真切表现，让他放下了所有争执的念头。 最后，他还邀请我共进午餐。 离别之际，他交给我一张支票，以及另一个设计任务。

Patting myself on the back, I may elaborate.The complexity of the material sends him for a loop.He studies it, worries about keeping up what he sometimes thinks of his fine performance, and could end up by ruining mine.

拍拍我自己的背，我或许会详细说明一下。资料的复杂性让他大为震惊。他研究 它，担心着要维持他有时认为的优良表现，却最终破坏了我的资料。