As an investment, bricks and mortar are not what they were.作为一种投资，房产不再是从前意义上的房产。He knows how to bake bricks.他会烧砖。The workman was wheeling a load of bricks on a wheelbarrow.那位工人在推一手推车砖.Glass blocks are sometimes substitut...
凡事应该用脑筋好好想一想.We should always use our brains and think everything over carefully.肯用脑筋的人永远胜过别人.A man who can think will always gain an advantage over others....
Water industry chiefs were rapped yesterday for failing their customers...昨天，水利行业的头头们因为怠慢客户而受到批评。I joined the workers on strike and was rapped over the knuckles...我参加了工人的罢工，因而受到了训斥。Ms Tyson also had her knuckles rapped f...
Eddie slipped the safety catch on his automatic back into place.埃迪将自动步枪的保险栓重新拉上。Wait a minute! I'm beginning to catch on.等一下！我开始有点懂了。Being a foreigner, he did not catch on the joke.他是个外国人, 未能理解这个笑话的含意....
小说《罗娜·杜恩》的副标题是“埃克斯穆尔绝恋”。"Lorna Doone" is subtitled "a Romance of Exmoor".第15次飞行利用萨杜恩将飞船送人月球轨道.Saturn was to launch the 15 th flight, a Moon orbital mission.他的继承人杜恩勋爵在城里出了一番风头。His heir, Lord Doune, cuts a bit of a dash in...