The brevity of the letter concerned me.我担心这封信写得太短。The letter was short — a simple recitation of their problem.信写得很短——只是简单地说了一下他们的问题。Then I saw the dateline -- 1924. The letter had been written almost sixty years earlier....
The letter merely restated the law of the land.这封信只不过重复了一下土地法。The letter was short — a simple recitation of their problem.信写得很短——只是简单地说了一下他们的问题。The things that stuck out were his cockiness and his four-letter words.与众不同之...
Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes: all three, great men to their own age, have dwindled subsequently.朗费罗 、 洛威尔 、 霍姆斯三个, 都不失为他们那个时代的伟人, 后来却大为退色了.My rent in Lowell was 0 dollars a month.在洛厄尔,我每个月的房租是400美元.Unlike Lowell's, hi...
我有更坏的消息告诉你.I have even worse news for you.我还有更坏的事要说.I have worse to tell you.我说哩,恐怕这就是为什么星期一你的脾气比平常更坏的原因吧?I suppose that's why you're more than usually disagreeable on Monday....