He fell asleep just past midnight with tolerable ease.他刚过午夜就睡着了，睡得还算安稳。The levels of tolerable pain vary greatly from individual to individual.对疼痛的耐受程度因人而异，差别很大。Is there anywhere tolerable to eat in town?城里有什么过得去的地方可以吃饭吗...
The village is a settlement of just fifty houses.这个村子里只住了50户人。There are much brighter prospects for a comprehensive settlement than before.综合性的社区具有比以前更加光明的前景。Officials have now been delegated to start work on a draft set...
There was a hundred miles between the two oases.这两片绿洲间有一百英里.Where underground water comes to the surface, there are oases.地下水流到地表的地方, 就成为了绿洲.The road went through several oases in the desert.这条路通过沙漠中的几片绿洲....
Molly's daily bulletins from the houte half a mile away had consisted of nothing but Tommy.莫莉每天都从半里之外她的家里发来消息,不谈别的,专谈托米.I just got BBC on shortwave. Same bulletins as last night.我刚刚收听了英国广播电台的短波,和昨天晚上一样的新闻.The telex ...
光被色散成各种波长的单色光.The light is dispersed into its component wave lengths.中性原子间的范德华力叫做色散力.Van der Wals forces between neutral atoms are called dispersion forces.金刚石的光辉异彩,部分是由于它有强烈的色散.The brilliance of diamond is due in part t...
The ball is made of rattan — a natural fibre.这个球是由一种天然纤维——省藤制成的。The rattan and wrought-iron chair pictured here costs £125.这张图片中的铁艺藤椅要价125英镑。Until the 1980s some criminals were still flogged with a rattan cane as a punis...