She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.她幻想过着各种奇妙的生活，从想入非非中获得乐趣。Christopher Sholes, a Milwaukee newspaper editor, invents the typewriter.克里斯托夫?肖尔斯, 一位密尔沃基的报社编辑, 发明了打字机.A . B . Strowger invents the teleph...
She beseeched him to cut his drinking and his smoking.她哀求他戒掉烟酒。"Please stay and read to me, mummy," he beseeched.“求求你留下来给我读点东西吧，妈妈，”他央求道。They beseeched him to go at once.他们请他马上就去....
Nothing can be done to ameliorate the situation.做什么也无法使情况好转。Steps have been taken to ameliorate the situation.已经采取措施以改善局面。In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.改善自己境况的愿望人皆有之....
They said she had a servile attitude to her employer.他们说她对她的老板阿谀逢迎。He was subservient and servile...他低声下气、卑躬屈膝。He is servile to his boss.他对老板一味地顺从.servile self-abasement卑躬屈节的自贬He was subservient and servile.他低声下气、卑躬屈膝。An...
We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.我们倾向于把维多利亚时代的人想象得非常古板、中规中矩。You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper .你可别跟她讲那个笑话，她这个人古板正经得要命。She's too prim to enjoy rude ...