She checked the seating arrangements before the guests filed into the dining-room.在客人们鱼贯进入餐厅之前，她核实了一遍座位安排。The stadium has been fitted with seating for over eighty thousand spectators.这个体育场配备了8万多个观众座席。It is a downmarket e...
She checked the seating arrangements before the guests filed into the dining-room.在客人们鱼贯进入餐厅之前，她核实了一遍座位安排。Were the seating arrangements for the dinner party according to protocol?餐会的坐位安排是根据礼节的需要 吗 ?The theater has a seat...
I decided it wouldn't be tactful to order another beer.我想了想，觉得再要啤酒就有点过分了。That wasn't a very tactful thing to say!说这种话可不太得体！Remember to be tactful when expressing a personal judgement.记住表达个人看法要婉转....
Although the two countries were officially at peace, fighting continued.尽管两国公开表示和平共处，但战斗还在继续。They officially and personally regarded De Gaulle as a deserter.他们官方和私人方面皆视戴高乐谨系一流亡者.England shifted officially from a Catholic...
木匠用他的锥子在木头上穿孔。The carpenter bored the wood with his drill.在穿孔卡片或纸带上穿孔的一种动作.A perforation, as in a punched card or paper tape.你认识鼻子上穿孔的人 吗 ?Do you know anyone with a pierced nose?...
与货船相比，渡船马力大而且易操纵。Ferries are very powerful and manoeuvrable compared to cargo ships.你得把油门杆往前推来加大马力。You have to push the throttle forward for more power.马力大的汽车到了缺乏经验的司机手中便成了毁灭性的武器。High-powered cars are lethal weapons in t...
They went for a quick snog behind the bike sheds.他们去了自行车棚的后面，短暂地拥吻了一下。The firemen pulled down some nearby sheds to stop the fire spreading.消防队员们把附近的一些棚子拉倒,不让火势蔓延....disused railway sheds.废弃的铁路工棚The present sheds a backwa...
The company has been downsizing.公司一直在缩小规模.But in today's economy, educated, white - collar workers also are vulnerable to downsizing.但是,在今天的经济中, 受过教育的 白领 工人也同样容易受到裁员的攻击.American manufacturing organizations have been...