A mistress lives perhaps too much in the present , but this immediacy is a lodestar 一个情人则可能过分注重此情此景，活在当下就是她的指导原则。
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But whatever its short - term usefulness for clamping down on inflation , monetarism proved an unreliable lodestar for steering the economy 但无论货币主义对降低通货膨胀在短期内是多么有效，它并不是掌控经济的可靠原则。
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In the nature of single blessedness he would one day take unto himself a wife when miss right came on the scene but in the interim ladies society was a conditio sine qua non though he had the gravest possible doubts , not that he wanted in the smallest to pump stephen about miss ferguson who was very possibly the particular lodestar who brought him down to irishtown so early in the morning , as to whether he would find much satisfaction basking in the boy and girl courtship idea and the company of smirking misses without a penny to their names bi - or tri - weekly with the orthodox preliminary canter of complimentpaying and walking out leading up to fond lovers ways and flowers and chocs 到那时为止，与女人交往倒也是个不可或缺的条件245 。他丝毫不想为弗格森246小姐促使他凌晨来到爱尔兰区的，极可能就是这位特定的“北极星”哩的事盘问斯蒂芬什么。尽管他十分怀疑斯蒂芬能够从诸如此类的事中得到由衷的满足：沉湎于少男少女式的谈情说爱啦，同只会嘻嘻嘻地傻笑身上一文不名的小姐每周幽会上两三次啦，照老一套的程序相互恭维，外出散步，又是鲜花又是巧克力地走上亲密的情侣之路。
