The Keystone XL pipeline has had a chequered history.
Keystone XL 输油管道项目有一段曲折。
He sat as one sitting for a portrait, motionless, watching the chequered lights and shades on the tree-trunks, the children playing opposite the school previous to entering for the morning lesson, the reapers in a field afar off.
他坐在那里,一动不动地坐在那里,看着树干上斑驳灯光和阴影,孩子们在学校对面玩耍,然后才进入早上课程,收割者在远处田野里。
At the age of 32, with a string of disasters behind him—including two expulsions from Harvard, a chequered employment history and, most tragically, the death of a young daughter—he stood on the shore of Lake Michigan contemplating suicide.
32 岁那年, 身后经了一连串灾难——包括两次被哈佛大学开除、曲折工作经,最悲惨是, 一个年幼女儿去世了——他站在密歇根湖畔考虑自杀。