He calls it a "contraption", using his favourite word of the moment.他用了眼下他最喜欢说的“玩意儿”一词来称呼它。Does this contraption work?这个奇妙的玩意儿能用 吗 ?a Heath Robinson contraption复杂而不实用的装置...a strange contraption called the General Gordon ...
这些花一朵也不要采摘.Don't pick off any of these flowers.这些巴西果采摘者所卖的钱仅为纽约批发价格的2%到3%。The brazil nut gatherers were paid only 2 to 3 percent of the New York wholesale price.他可以到小河边去采摘一簇丁香花.He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs ov...
He waited several minutes for a car to pull up alongside.他等了几分钟，直到一辆汽车靠边停下。Pull up a chair and dig in!拉把椅子过来开吃吧！Please pull up a chair and join the conversation.请拿过把椅子来一起聊天....
奈杰尔真是个可悲的人哪。What a sad character that Nigel is.她对这些条例表现出可悲的无知。She displayed a woeful ignorance of the rules.我拒不跟他们摆出那副可悲的装模作样的姿态.I refused to go along with their pathetic charade....
He was also very unimpressed by his teachers.他对他的老师也很不以为然。Kitty's family was unworldly, unimpressed by power, or money.基蒂一家清心寡欲，淡泊金钱与权力。Thoreau usually remained alone unimpressed by the ideas or actions of others.索洛...