我正在等几封重要的信件，可是一封都没到。I am expecting several important letters but nothing has arrived.我们把手探进一袋信件中抽取获奖者。We delved through a sackful of letters to draw the winning name.他们主张采取向四处随意邮寄大量信件的方式。They advocated a scattergun appro...
The four provinces are riven by deep family and tribal conflicts.这4个省被严重的家族和部族纷争弄得四分五裂。Although geographically linked, the two provinces have long fought for political ascendancy.尽管在地理上彼此依存，两省却长期为获取政治支配权你争我夺。Figure 1.15 ...
More commonly, funding controls are imposed in the annual appropriations process.更普遍的作法是, 拨款控制被规定在年度拨款手续中.Should the president veto the appropriations bill, it goes back to Congress.假如总统否决了这项拨款提案, 就把它退还给国会.Appropriations...
There are reports of widespread dis-content in the capital.有报道称首都弥漫着不满的情绪。I dis-covered a mutilated cassette stuffed in a waste-basket.我发现一盘被弄坏的盒式磁带丢在废纸篓里。He's a shallow, dis-agreeable man.他是个肤浅、难相处的人。...
我们只得绕道避开被洪水淹没的田野。We had to make a detour around the flooded fields.他指出, 铁板一块的观念是注定要被历史的潮流所淹没的.The monolith, he suggested, was doomed by the tides of history.这时它缓缓地在树干和矮树间漂浮着,又浮到被洪水淹没的陆地上.Slowly now it floated among logs ...