We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.我们倾向于把维多利亚时代的人想象得非常古板、中规中矩。You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper .你可别跟她讲那个笑话，她这个人古板正经得要命。She's too prim to enjoy rude ...
Don’t invite her to the party. She’s so prim and proper.别请她去舞会，她太古板了。It was a strange conjunction—the prim serious young Queen and the elderly,cynical Whig.那是奇特的组合——古板严肃的年轻女王和上了年纪、玩世不恭的维新党成员相组合。We tend to imagine that th...
正常情况下，巴黎的交通系统每天运送95万乘客。Normally, the transportation system in Paris carries 950,000 passengers a day.此后她给巴黎的报纸和杂志撰稿。Thereafter she wrote articles for papers and magazines in Paris.她在爱尔兰和巴黎的学校接受过私立教育。She was privately edu...
I see conundrums, dilemmas , quandaries , impasses, gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out.眼看问题经纬万端,进退两难 、 入困境, 死路一条, 盘根错节的命定可能性,但找不到明显的出路.He gave a detailed account of what happened on the fatefu...
T-shirts are a nice little earner and it's better than the dole.卖T恤衫来钱容易，比领救济金好。Tourism is the country's top earner of foreign currency.旅游业是该国外汇创收最多的行业。The young wage - earner often earns good money.年轻的工资收入者往往能...