他们说起自己设法使油轮漂浮的英勇之举时非常谦虚。They talked modestly of their valiant efforts to keep the tanker afloat.一艘油轮将装载的油全都泄入了大海。An oil tanker spewed its cargo into the sea.油轮外部金属板覆层破裂的那一瞬间，油开始外溢。The tanker began spilling oil the moment...
不变性指的是一致的部分.Invariance refers to areas of agreement.相对论涉及两个似乎对立的概念, 相对性和不变性.The theory of relativity is concerned with two seemingly opposite ideas, relativity and invariance.我们迟早要问:这个定律是否经得起相对论不变性的检验?Sooner or later we ...
宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.他在贝克斯利的住宅坐落在一片小森林中。His home in Bexley is tucked away in a miniature forest.房子坐落在莫尔文丘陵地区，周围景色迷人。The house is in a lovely setting in the Malvern hills....
布赖恩如同旋转舞蹈的托钵僧一样转来转去，一边拍打着蚊子一边抱怨不停。Brian was whirling like a dervish, slapping at the mosquitoes and moaning.他在台上转圈，如同跳旋转舞蹈的托钵僧一样。He threw himself around the stage like a whirling dervish....
...Biarritz, notorious in those days as a nest of spies...比亚里茨，那时候出了名的间谍老巢The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies.总部混入了敌方特务。to set spies on a person安插特务监视某人This is a plan to round up the enemy spies.这是个围歼敌特的...
I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit.我有时候也曾将起因全部可笑地推在却利?福罗萨的身上.Katherine looked briefly and witheringly at Charley Lynch.凯瑟琳轻蔑地看了查利?林奇一眼.He had confessed to supplying Charle...