...the squalid pursuit of profit.对利润不择手段的追求They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.接下来的5年中，他们住在一间肮脏不堪的小破屋里。The migrants have been living in squalid conditions.移民们的生活条件一直非常差。Here were crumbling tenements, sq...
He followed her up a rickety staircase to a squalid bedsit.他跟着她上了一段摇摇晃晃的楼梯，来到了一间邋遢的卧室起居室两用房间。squalid, overcrowded refugee camps肮脏而拥挤的难民营They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.接下来的5年中，他们住在一间肮脏不堪的小破屋里。...
He has always lived his life by a hopelessly quixotic code of honour.他生活中一直遵循一种完全不切实际的堂吉诃德式的道德准则。These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with me.这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择, 但请先容我讲完.At worst his scruples must have...
运动员在比赛中表现出坚韧的斗志.The athletes displayed great tenacity throughout the contest.用于提取这种油的树脂取自于一种矮小坚韧的树。The resin from which the oil is extracted comes from a small, tough tree.棍子落下去,他觉得好像打在坚韧的橡胶上.He felt the rubbery solidity...