Letters from home were an anchor to him when he worked abroad.他在国外工作时, 家书是他的精神支柱。We dropped anchor in a sheltered spot.我们在一个能够遮风挡雨的地方下了锚。We weighed anchor in the afternoon and started for the Philippines.我们在下午启航,前往菲律宾.Th...
His instructor offered a more prosaic explanation for the surge in interest...对于利息的急剧增加，他的导师给出了一个更为平淡无奇的解释。a prosaic statement平实的叙述The truth is more prosaic.真相更加乏味。How prosaic, and yet how magical such paragraphs are!这样的...
反堕胎者所作的加强法规的尝试失败了。An attempt by anti-abortionists to tighten the rules was defeated.首都加强了警备，准备迎接总统的到来。Security tightened in the capital in readiness for the president's arrival.到中午时分北风会加强到6级。Northerly winds will inc...
These days the media are omnipresent.现在新闻媒体无处不在。The obsessive thoughts became so omnipresent that her memory was affected.这些强迫性念头变得无时不在，以至影响到了她的记忆。Beauty is omnipresent, therefore everything is capable of giving us joy.美...
His manner is supercilious and arrogant.他非常傲慢自大。His manner is supercilious and arrogant...他非常傲慢自大。His mother eyed me in silence with a supercilious air ( Tobias Smollett ).他母亲以一种目空一切的架势一声不响地盯着我 ( 托比阿斯斯摩莱特 )This supercili...
He roused himself from his lazy contemplation of the scene beneath him.他不再懒洋洋地注视着下面的景色。He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape.他对着眼前的景色沉思起来。It is a place of quiet contemplation.这是个静心冥想的好地方。...