这种对待金钱的过分谨慎的态度有时几近于吝啬。This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.别这么吝啬布料，不然做出来的窗帘会显得特寒酸。Don't be mean with fabric, otherwise curtains will end up looking skimpy.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪.His tightfiste...
She behaves with decorum.她举止端庄有礼.The new King seemed to be carrying out his duties with grace and due decorum.新国王在履行职责时看起来举止得体、端庄稳重。One expects people in the public eye to conduct their personal lives with a certain deco...
Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia in 1975.巴布亚新几内亚1975年脱离澳大利亚正式独立。Students in fifty schools are to act as guinea pigs for these new teaching methods.五十所学校的学生将作为这些新教学法的试验对象。" Guinea hens ,'said Archie...
They were gossipy and not always discreet.他们很爱传闲话，而且常常口无遮拦。I got a long gossipy letter from my friend.我收到朋友的一封很长的长舌信.It also contained gossipy accounts of alleged sexual misdeeds.它也包含了大量的所谓性罪行材料....