Affections of manner and speech are mere frippery.态度和语言的做作只是矫饰而已.Affectations of manner and speech are mere frippery.态度和语言的做作只是俗丽服饰而已.She often wears ornaments of frippery.她常戴些低俗的装饰品....a sombre display, with no frills o...
He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature. He really laid it on with a trowel.他对她说,她是自己最喜欢的作家,还说她应该获得诺贝尔文学奖. 他实际上是在恭维她.Common tools include the trowel, penknife an...
Credo: I will return with help! You stall him until then!我会回来协助的! 你先在这里拖住他.To be the first to bear hardship and the last to enjoy comfort is our credo.吃苦在前，享受在后，这就是我们的口号。Lord Clarendon's liberal credo was one of the...
成功不是终点，失败也并非末日，最重要的是继续前进的勇气。Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill我本人也保证将继续为正义而战。I too am committing myself to continue the fight for justice.她叹了口气，然后继续用...
建筑工人在8根细柱上架起轻巧的混凝土穹顶。The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.职位减少后，在职工人总数将减至7,000人。The job losses will reduce the total workforce to 7,000.各企业需要更好地培训工人，并且在研发方面加大投入。Businesses need to trai...
The wheel had long since rusted from years of disuse.多年不用的车轮早已锈迹斑斑。The factory fell into disuse twenty years ago.这个工厂二十年前就废弃了。The room smelt of disuse and mouldering books.房间里有一股长期不用和霉烂书籍的味道。...