...a book of children's verse, which ranged from the barely tolerable to the utterly dire.一本儿童诗歌集，其中有的能勉强接受，而有的简直是糟透了。The company is in dire straits.公司处于极度困难的境地.They deprived a large number of the overseas Chinese o...
Their new manifesto hardly threatens to bring the whole edifice of capitalism crashing down.他们新的宣言声称要摧毁整个资本主义大厦，这是不可能的。The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。a n...