他一时思维短路，然后又重新想了起来。He lost his train of thought for a moment, then recovered it.墙上插座的电线短路烧断了保险丝，电灯跟着灭了。The wire snapped at the wall plug and the light fused.火灾是由电线短路引发的。The fire was started by an electrical short-circuit....
我与伦敦警察厅的乔普林巡官通过电话了。I got on the phone to Inspector Joplin at Scotland Yard.贾尼斯∙乔普林就是众所周知的摇滚乐大师。Janis Joplin was known as the High Priestess of Rock.帕蒂·史密斯和詹妮斯·乔普林多年前就这样做过，她们当时是两位个性鲜明的才女。Patti Smith and Janis Joplin did i...
...a jigger of brandy.一小量杯白兰地Have you seen that jigger I fix the radio with?你有看到我用来修理收音机的那个小玩意 吗 ?Give me a jigger.给我一小杯.Red is joined by HEYWOOD, SKEET, FLOYD, JIGGER, ERNIE, SNOOZE.海沃德 、 斯基特 、 弗洛伊德 、 齐格尔 、 厄尼 、 斯诺与瑞德聚到...
She'd do anything for a bit of pin money.为了挣点外快，她什么都肯做。It has taken until now to pin down its exact location.直到现在才确定了它的准确位置。Zita was herself unconventional, keeping a safety-pin stuck through her ear lobe.齐塔自己就不守传统，...
While so preoccupied, he forgot his usual cautiousness.在这么乱想的时候, 他忘了素日的谨慎.He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong.他只顾想着心事，没注意到有什么不对。At nightfall, he returned to the rickshaw yard dead - beat...
My main worry was that Madeleine Johnson would still be there.我最担心的是马德琳·约翰逊仍会在那儿。Although she had various boyfriends, Madeleine was, and remains, fiercely self-sufficient.尽管有过各种各样的男朋友，马德琳过去和现在一直都非常自立。Madeleine is on good...
尼罗河在此处变宽，从两块花岗岩巨石间穿过。Here the Nile broadens out between the huge granite boulders.阿斯旺水坝有助于控制埃及的尼罗河.The Aswan Dam helps to control the River Nile in Egypt.探险者在中非找到了尼罗河的几处源头.Explorers traced the Nile River to its several h...