Some analysts downplayed the significance of RIM's flat shipments and sales.一些分析师并不认为RIM当季出货量和销售额持平有什么问题.The report downplayed the effects of large class sizes in schools.报告对学校大班级规模的影响一带而过.The capitalistic mode of p...
Doctors I came into contact with voiced their concern.我接触到的医生都表示了他们的担心。He voiced his solidarity with the weak and defenceless.他表示自己同弱势和无助群体站在一起。He gained the ear of the managing director and voiced his opinion.他说的话总经理愿意倾...
Celia tried to blot out the present.西莉亚竭力排开眼前的事.The crime he committed is a blot on his record.他犯的罪是他的履历中的一个污点。There is a blot of ink on the paper.纸上有一滴墨水渍....an ink blot.墨迹That new factory is a blot on the landscape.那新建...
It can be a dangerous course of action which might be sound in theory but — ahem — perhaps a trifle risky in practice...这可能是一次危险的行动，在理论上听着无缝可击，但——呃哼——真做起来却可能有点冒险。This is a trifle compared with the important exclusions.比之...
煤越产越多，而发电站的煤堆越来越高，这始终是愚蠢的行为。It remains lunacy to produce yet more coal to add to power stations' stockpiles.院子里杂草丛生,煤堆满地.The yard is a wilderness of weeds and heaps of coal.他们来把木头和煤堆了起来.They came and piled on logs a...
In the end it proved a pointless exercise.最终证明这是个无意义的工作。Who wouldn't have preferred this with life so pointless, bitter and hopeless?谁不喜欢这样呢,生活既是那么无聊, 痛苦,无望!He asked them all kinds of pointless questions, stalling f...