This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.这种对待金钱的过分谨慎的态度有时几近于吝啬。They gave him a dig about his meanness.他们在挖苦他吝啬.The meanness of anonymity gave a shuddering obscenity to the moment.这种匿名的卑鄙行为使他一时...
Nearly eleven-thousand people have been arrested for defying the ban on street trading.将近有1.1万人因为违抗禁止在街上摆摊交易的禁令而被捕。Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility o...
He was not here at the outset of the experiment.实验开始时他不在这里.I never understood why he didn't just accede to our demands at the outset.我一直搞不懂他为什么不一开始就同意我们的要求。I warned you at the outset not to trust him, and you wouldn...
Praises for Dr. Bethune's spirit of internationalism are always on the lips of the Chinese people.白求恩大夫的国际主义精神,一直为中国人民广泛传颂.Dr. Norman Bethune impersonates the spirit of proletarian internationalism.白求恩医生体现了无产阶级国际主义精...
There is a simplicity about the interior which comes close to blandness.室内布置得很简单，几乎有点平淡无奇。He is a mild man, who is reasonable almost to the point of blandness.他为人温和，几乎通情达理到了令人乏味的地步。Blandness in the basic politics of the ...