I had to pay nigh on forty pounds for it.我不得不为它花了将近40英镑。The storm must still be nigh, she thought.她想暴风雨必定仍会到来。They've lived in that house for nigh on 30 years.他们在那所房子里住了差不多30年了。...
雅典人对待生活非常怡然自得。Athenians have a very easy-going attitude to life.所有的雅典人都发誓效忠于他.All Athens swore to carry out his demands.雅典人及其同盟军的船只袖手旁观.The ships of the Athenians and their allies sulked unhelpfully....
He was not here at the outset of the experiment.实验开始时他不在这里.I never understood why he didn't just accede to our demands at the outset.我一直搞不懂他为什么不一开始就同意我们的要求。I warned you at the outset not to trust him, and you wouldn...
Moira bounced into the office.莫伊拉蹦蹦跳跳地进了办公室。His bank wrongly bounced cheques worth £75,000.他的开户银行错误地拒付了票面金额为75,000英镑的支票。Our only complaint would be if the cheque bounced...我们唯一的不满就是,如果支票被拒付…The ball hit the backboard and...
最典型的例子是梅西百货,它曾经是加利福尼亚无可争辩的零售巨头。The prime example is Macy's, once the undisputed king of California retailers.20世纪80年代,一些出版巨头开始吞并一些较小的公司。During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller compan...