Richard, isn't that too much to ask of your mother?
Richard,那是不是太麻烦你母亲啦?
Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
即使敌人小如鼠,也要防他如防虎。
Who could have imagined, in the mid 1970s, for example, that by the end of the 20th century, computers would be as common in people's homes as TV sets?