The dress is perfect. Don't add anything to it at all. It would just be gilding the lily.这条裙子已经很完美了, 别再作任何修饰了, 那只会画蛇添足.The gilding is extremely lavish.这层镀金极为奢华。His article praising classical Greek art is just gildin...
The soldiers harried the enemy out of the country.士兵们不断作骚扰性的攻击直至把敌人赶出国境为止.She has been harried by the press all week.整个星期她都受到新闻界的不断烦扰。The captain harried the quarter master for recognition manuals.艇长催促航信士官给他识别手册.The harr...
He would attach a cable around the chassis of the car and winch it up on to the canal bank.他会把钢丝绳拴在汽车底盘上，用卷扬机把汽车吊到运河岸上。The frame or chassis on which panels of electrical equipment may be mounted.可安装电气设备板的框架或底座.The stabil...
Clothes were everywhere; hanging out of drawers, strewn across the floor, even spilling from the wastepaper basket.到处都是衣服：挂在抽屉上、扔在地上、甚至堆在废纸篓里。To a Japanese, spilling anything is uncouth.对日本人来说, 泼溅任何东西都是不文明的。Some blokes g...
This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle.这个过程和拼图相似。A jigsaw puzzle can keep me absorbed for hours.一副拼图就能让我沉醉几个小时.We keep trying to put the jigsaw puzzle together.我们继续尝试这种拼图游戏....
The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.会议上提出的还是那些惯常讨论的老套话题——宏观经济政策、第三世界债务和环境问题。The bank also collects and disseminates information on macroeconomic topics...