在那个数字的问题上，我并不认同你的看法。I would quarrel with you on that figure.影响统计数字的准确性to skew the statistics我不能很好地领会这些数字的重要性.I can't quite grasp the meaning of these figures....
我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?其目的是促使人们结识邻居。The idea is to encourage people to get to know their neighbours.他于是对他说道：“谁是我邻居？”And he sai...
Cocktails at the Plaza was a nightly ritual of their sophisticated world.到广场饭店喝鸡尾酒是他们这个高雅时髦的圈子中的人每晚必做的事情。For months at a time, air raids were a nightly occurrence.一度有几个月，每天晚上都会发生空袭。A new and younger crowd filled the bar ...
She's a snappy dresser .她衣着入时。The professor’s a radical in politics but a conservative dresser.教授在政治上是激进派,但衣着却很守旧。Rickman worked as a dresser to Nigel Hawthorne...里克曼曾是奈杰尔·霍索恩的服装师。"Tell them to hold all my calls, Th...
He was making a visible effort to control himself.他明显是在努力控制自己的情绪。It is incumbent upon all of us to make an extra effort.我们所有人都必须加倍努力。Even carrying the camcorder while hiking in the forest was an effort.在森林中徒步旅行时，即便带的是便携式...
Half a million hippies joined together to make history.五十万嬉皮士们聚集一堂,盛况空前.He's a leftover from the hippies in the 1960s.他是20世纪60年代嬉皮士的残余分子。New Age hippies love fashion but don't want to be fashion victims.新时代嬉皮喜爱...