...a convenient scapegoat...随手抓来的替罪羊She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence.她觉得，本是老板无能，但她却成了替罪羊。He has been made a scapegoat for the company's failures.他成了公司倒闭的替罪羊.He has been made a ...
In such areas small tributaries or gullies will not show.在这些地区,小的支流和冲沟显示不出来.These tributaries are subsequent streams which erode strike valley.这些支流系即为蚀出走向谷的次生河.A river and its branches ( or tributaries ) form a river sys...
What about getting new ones — Are you so tight you won't even spend three roubles?买些新的怎样——你就小气到连3个卢布也不肯掏吗？Business flourished and within six months they were earning 18,000 roubles a day...生意红火起来，不出6 个月他们就可以每天赚 18,0...
定量供应很久以前就结束了饼干过剩的状况。Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago.我们都得排队领取定量配给票证薄。We all had to queue up for our ration books.很多基本商品现在都要定量供给。能买到的东西越来越少。Many basic goods are now rationed. Less and less is ava...
Sir Thomas More is remembered today as the author of Utopia.当今,托马斯·莫尔先生还被铭记为《乌托邦》的作者.His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists.他的乌托邦不是空想的联邦,而是对那些已经存在的联邦事实上的改进.When Vid...