他就任公职是出于一种责任感。He took up office out of a sense of duty.布坎南从未就任过经选举产生的职位。Buchanan has never held elective office.他于1935年就任圣职。He took holy orders in 1935....
“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....
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...
You cannot live in a cocoon and overlook these facts.你不能自己缩在套子里而忽略这些事实。He stood there in a cocoon of golden light.他站在那儿，一柱金光笼罩着他。the cocoon of a caring family家庭中相互关爱所形成的保护...