他以压倒性多数赢得上月的总统选举。He won last month's presidential election by a landslide.他参加过多次比赛，赢得了数枚金牌。He entered for many competitions, winning several gold medals.他赢了，但是赢得十分勉强。He won, but only by the skin of his teeth....
So many marriages have come to grief over lack of money.许多婚姻都因缺钱而以失败告终。Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement.几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了.All his little schemes for making money seem to come to grief.他为赚钱而耍的花招看来都会...
让厨房计时器开始计时。Set the kitchen timer going.这类计时器尚不能算是独立的计时器,还是天文仪器与计时仪器的混合体.These mixtures of astronomical instruments and time - measuring devices cannot be seen as independent time measurers.作为计时器,漏刻的使用比日晷史为普遍.Many ancient...
Better be blamed by our kith and kin, than be kissed by the enemy.宁可让亲人责备, 切勿让敌人亲吻.No, he's neither kith nor kin to me.不是, 他和我非亲非眷.Such quarrels take place even among one's own kith and kin.这样的争吵甚至会在自己的亲戚和朋友之间发...