水正成为日益珍贵的资源。Water is becoming an increasingly precious resource.教堂有几件珍贵的艺术品。The church has several valuable works of art.大火吞噬了我的一些最珍贵的物品。I lost some of my most prized possessions in the fire....
The four provinces are riven by deep family and tribal conflicts.这4个省被严重的家族和部族纷争弄得四分五裂。Although geographically linked, the two provinces have long fought for political ascendancy.尽管在地理上彼此依存，两省却长期为获取政治支配权你争我夺。Figure 1.15 ...
More commonly, funding controls are imposed in the annual appropriations process.更普遍的作法是, 拨款控制被规定在年度拨款手续中.Should the president veto the appropriations bill, it goes back to Congress.假如总统否决了这项拨款提案, 就把它退还给国会.Appropriations...
There are reports of widespread dis-content in the capital.有报道称首都弥漫着不满的情绪。I dis-covered a mutilated cassette stuffed in a waste-basket.我发现一盘被弄坏的盒式磁带丢在废纸篓里。He's a shallow, dis-agreeable man.他是个肤浅、难相处的人。...
我们只得绕道避开被洪水淹没的田野。We had to make a detour around the flooded fields.他指出, 铁板一块的观念是注定要被历史的潮流所淹没的.The monolith, he suggested, was doomed by the tides of history.这时它缓缓地在树干和矮树间漂浮着,又浮到被洪水淹没的陆地上.Slowly now it floated among logs ...