She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.令人疑惑的是，她看上去就像一位面熟的邻家阿姨或是祖母。Her grandmother had the gift of making people happy.她奶奶有逗人开心的本事。Grandmother felt free to order her about just as she wished.奶奶毫不客气地...
In her memoirs Naomi is quick to acknowledge that her grandmother was centrally important in her venture as a writer.娜奥米在她的回忆录里开篇就承认，在她尝试创作的过程中，她的祖母起了非常重要的作用。My grandmother dickered with the pedlar over the price of appl...
When he asked questions, the answers came back in Wall Street gobbledygook.他但凡提出疑问，得到的回答全是华尔街的官样文章。Of course , those words are gobbledygook on the whole.这些话自然是官样文章.Patents in new fields often sound like gobbledygook, sin...
凸凹不平的石墙就像一条很深的运河的河岸。The rough rock walls were like the sides of a deep canal.他们沿着河岸向西出发了。They set out in a westerly direction along the riverbank.罗伯特失足滑下了河岸。Robert lost his footing and slithered down the bank....
...spending his dotage in a riverside cottage.在河畔小屋中度过他的晚年Sarah moved back in with her father so that she could look after him in his dotage.萨拉搬回来与父亲同住，好在他年老时照顾他。I'm not in my dotage yet ; I can still drive to Gilly...
Does this institution have any redeeming features?这个机构有什么可取之处吗？The sole redeeming feature of this job is the salary.这份工作唯其薪水尚可弥补一切之不足.Even in the bad poems there are redeeming features.即使坏诗里也有补救败笔的....