quite an event的意思|示意

Actually, that is not quite true: if it were, our seats would be rear-facing, like those in military aircraft, since they are safer in the event of an emergency landing.

说实在的，没那回事儿。如果真是安全第一的话，我们的座椅应该和军机一样是背对背的，那样，在紧急迫降时才比较安全。

The discovery of Columbus was quite an event in the world.

哥伦布的发现是世界上的一件大事。

These are quite common events on portable devices and often require machine specific code to re-route audio, enable amps, etc. , after such an event.

这些在便携设备上都是十分常见的事件并且在这些事件之后经常需要机器相关的代码来对音频重设路径，开启放大器等。

The ideas behind Ajax are quite simple: Listen for an event in the browser, send a background request to the server, and update part of the page when server responds.

Ajax背后的想法十分简单：在浏览器中监听事件，给服务器发送后台请求，当服务器响应时更新页面的一部分。

Previously, I made an extreme but quite apt comment: unless an event has been described in English, it might as well as not have occurred.

我之前说过一句偏激但蛮贴切的话：凡是没有用英文叙述过的事情就等于没有真实发生过。

But the editor doesn’t quite have absolute power: an invitation-only steering committee can impeach him in the unlikely event of a Strangelove scenario.

其实编辑也并非拥有绝对的权力：一个仅由受邀人员组成的指导委员会可以质疑编辑的偏执做法。