The story ascends from a gothic tragedy to a miraculous fairy-tale.故事从一个哥特式悲剧升华为神奇的童话。...a handsome engineer who bored me to tears with his tale of motorway maintenance英俊的工程师不停地讲高速公路养护的故事，烦得我要命A good tale is none the wor...
They reportedly sit in cubicles with the company salespeople at the Kingston offices.据传闻他们与办公室的销售员一起坐在格子间里.The great hall was partitioned off into several cubicles.大厅被隔成了几个小房间.I guess they thought me content to stay in c...
"They play classic rock'n"roll,' states her boyfriend, "My dad digs them too."“他们演奏经典摇滚乐，”她的男朋友说道，“我爸爸也喜欢他们。”He went to London and lived in digs in Gloucester Road.他去了伦敦，在格洛斯特路的一所房子里租了房间住。She digs the serving s...
The Channel Tunnel project is the biggest civil engineering project in Europe.英吉利海峡隧道是欧洲最大的土木工程。There are other forms of civil disorder — most notably, football hooliganism.还有其他形式的民众骚乱，最出名的是足球流氓行为。A gentleman should alwa...
The restaurant's specialities are fried clams.这个餐厅的特色菜是炸蚌.We dug clams in the flats et low tide.退潮时我们在浅滩挖蛤蜊.Inside those shells, animals like clams are very soft.在这些贝壳里, 如蛤蜊般的动物非常柔软....