The Chief Constable's clipped tones crackled over the telephone line.电话线那头噼里啪啦地传来警察局长短促的声音。Lights clipped onto life jackets improve the chances of rescue.别在救生衣上的灯提高了获救可能性。He had already clipped his hair close to the...
He spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony.他讲话简短而客观,完全是一种典型的警察作证的样子.To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings...混用更多的隐喻来说，你还没学会走...
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....
“我恨透了学校，”雷切尔说，“我总是逃学。”"I absolutely hated school," Rachel says. "I skived off all the time."他是个逃学精，还偷东西。He was a skiver, and a thief.几乎每个人的孩子都逃学。Almost everybody'skids skive off school....
它绕着质心的椭园运动就几乎看不出来.Its own elliptic motion around it will be almost imperceptible.在无外力时,质心的速度是常量.The velocity of the center of mass is constant in the absence of external forces.错误的根源在于混淆了质心与重心 吗 ?Do We Mistake Center of ...
His bluff exterior belied a connoisseur of antiques.他作风粗放,令人看不出他是古董鉴赏家.Her smile belied her true feelings.她的微笑掩饰了她的真实感情.His trembling belied his words.他的战栗表明他的话是假的....
...a voice-activated computer.声控电脑The poems which he wrote in the trenches are generally agreed to be those in which he found his true voice.他在战壕里创作的那些诗歌被公认为是他找到了自己声音的作品。My voice surprised me; it was even and emotionless...