Close - knit teams are particularly susceptible to the pull of groupthink.组织严密的团队特别容易受到集体思维力量的影响.No doubt groupthink explains why some boards end up committing to an idiotic course of action.毫无疑问,集体思维解释了一些董事会之所以最终得出愚蠢做法的...
a casual and conversational tone不拘礼节的谈话语气Mary is ambitious enough to aspire to conversational fluency in Chinese in four months.玛丽雄心很大,竟想在四个月里学会用汉语流利地会话.Gender differences in conversational patterns may cause inharmony a...
The movie was a letdown.那电影真令人失望.He found himself completely unable to suppress a sense of disappointment, of letdown.他感到自己有一种完全无法抑制的受挫和失望的感觉.It's really a letdown to let Tom join us.让汤姆加入我们真是一件扫兴的事情....
I used my thumbnail to tighten the screw on my lamp.我用拇指指甲把台灯上的螺钉拧紧了。Eddie parked his cycle against a lamp post and padlocked it.埃迪把他的自行车靠在路灯柱上，用挂锁锁好。In the evenings we eat by the light of an oil lamp.晚上我们便在一盏油灯下吃饭。...
We drank ourselves into a stupor on cheap wine.我们喝廉价葡萄酒喝得酩酊大醉。I was thinking what a tangle we had got ourselves into.我在想，我们卷入了怎样的纷争之中。We both kept pinching ourselves to prove that it wasn't all a dream.我们两个都一直在掐自己，证...