The carpet is worn but still serviceable.地毯旧了，但还能用。When this building is repaired, it will be serviceable.这栋楼房修好后还可以住.A customer took a perfectly serviceable washing machine in for repair, only to be told it needed repla...
The fruit has a tart and astringent flavour.这种水果又酸又涩。Cannot carry off happiness. Bitter and astringent. Warm and ache.带不走的甜蜜. 苦涩. 温暖与疼痛.Astringent: Mouth - puckering sensation ; the result of tannin being present in the ...
All those three books are compacted and compressed into one book.那三本书的内容全都压缩进一本书了。Jets of compressed air gave the aircraft lateral and directional stability.压缩空气的喷吐使飞机的左右和前后都能保持稳定。The compressed gas is cooled and condens...
Struggle of anthropocentrism and non - anthropocentrism is one of contemporary philosophy hot spots.人类中心主义和 非人 类中心主义之争是当代哲学界的热点之一.Anthropocentrism and non - anthropocentrism are two groups of studying the relationship be...
Singing among the savage branches, it impale itself upon the longest, sharpest spine.它把自己钉在最尖最长的刺上,在蓁蓁树枝间婉啭啼鸣.A wild cur flung itself at him with bared fangs and slashed a rent in his overcoat.一只恶狗张牙舞爪猛地朝他扑来,撕破了他的上衣.Stre...
The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。He wasn’t really upset—his behaviour was just a charade.他并不是真正心绪烦乱——他的行为只是荒谬的伪装。She struggled to maintain the charade of not ...