There was always an undercurrent of greediness, a hankering, and sense of waste.总是存在着一种贪得无厌的暗流, 一种非分之想, 一种蹉跎的感觉.A few words successfully bring out the greediness of the usurer.寥寥数笔,就把这高利贷者贪婪的嘴脸勾画出来了.His greediness for ma...
It was trumpeted that the nation's health was improving.人们大力宣传该国的健康状况正在改善。Today he's still revered as the father of the nation.现在，他仍被尊为国父。Education and training is the key that will unlock our nation's pot...
"You must be expecting a young man," she teased.“你一定是在等哪位小伙子吧，”她揶揄道。We teased him mercilessly.我们肆无忌惮地拿他开心。He took a screwdriver and teased out the remaining screws.他拿出螺丝刀把其余的螺丝卸了下来....
Instead of writing her shorthand by hand, she could use a machine.她可以不用手, 而使用一种带键盘的机器进行速记。"Third World" is an abstraction, a form of shorthand.“第三世界”是个抽象概念，是一种简称。The fiction that 'he' is a neutral shorthand for...
the many isotopes of carbon碳的诸多同位素Tritium is one of the mildest radioactive isotopes.氚是最和缓的放射性同位素之一.The inferno spewed a deadly plume of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere.这个象炼狱般的地方将一缕致死的放射性同位素喷入大气层....