The disease was controlled by the simple expedient of not allowing anyone to leave the city.通过禁止任何人出城的简单应急办法使疾病得到了控制。It was expedient to retire gracefully.体面的让步可算是权宜之计.Do whatever is expedient.权宜处置,怎么方便就怎么办....
The story was a temporary expedient.这个借口是临时的应急之法。Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations...采取了将所有等待进行静脉曲张手术的病人从名单上删除的简单做法，这一权宜之计使得外科手术等待名...
“我不想要它，”埃里克微弱地尖声说。"I don't want it," Eric bleated.他的声音微弱地传到我们这儿.His voice came faintly to us.这个人还有呼吸, 而且他的心脏还在微弱地跳动着.He was still breathing, and his heart was beating weakly....
Constable posters decorate the walls.康斯太布尔风景画的海报装点着那些墙面。Another is to decorate a maypole with ribbons.另一项传统是用丝带装饰一根花柱.She opened the door for me and threw herself in my arms, screaming joyously and demanding that we deco...
His choice of subject matter has been regarded as lowbrow.他选择的主题被认为是浅薄的。That lowbrow prefers pornography to fine art.那格调低的人喜欢黄色书刊胜于艺术.A customer buried in reading matter is a common sight in even the most lowbrow caf é.即...
Journalist Walter Lippmann and Joseph Alsop, and so on.新闻记者沃特·李普曼和约瑟夫·艾尔索普等.When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. - --- Walter Lippmann.当所有的人都一样想时, 没人再想那么多. ---- 沃尔特. 李普曼....
“史蒂夫，你要喝点什么？”——“可口可乐，百事，随便啦。”"Steve, what do you want?" — "Coke, Pepsi, it doesn't matter."他和史密斯打了一架，把后者的鼻子打出了血。He had had a fight with Smith and bloodied his nose.前锋艾伦·史密斯两次严重失误，将球射偏。Striker Alan Smith was guilty o...
The old dog had a grizzled muzzle.那条老狗的口鼻部分有灰斑.They were odd and grizzled or wrinkled storekeepers.他们是一些古里古怪,头发花白,满脸皱纹的杂货店老板....a grizzled old age pensioner...头发花白、靠养老金过活的老人He was an old man with grey, grizzled hair.他是一位...