By about 6 weeks of age, most babies begin to show something approximating a day/night sleeping pattern.到6个星期大时，大多数婴儿开始表现出近似于日夜分明的睡觉模式。Pattern charts with small print are often difficult for older knitters to use.上了年纪的针织...

a recent fall-off in sales近来销售量的减少One slip and you could fall off the building.脚下一滑就可能从建筑物上跌下去.When you are learning to ride a bicycle, you often fall off.初学骑自行车时, 常会从车上掉下来....

We attributed this saying to Shakespeare.我们认为这句格言出自莎士比亚。Shakespeare has accustomed us to a mixture of humor and tragedy in the same play.莎士比亚让我们习见了同一场戏目中的悲喜交错。...Shakespeare's famous personages.莎士比亚笔下的著名人物...Shakesp...

His answers to my questions were all evasions.他对我的问题的回答均为遁词.We want straight answers. No evasions.我们要的是正面回答，不是托词。We want straight answers. No evasions...我们要的是正面回答，不是托词。A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasio...

While her English was correct, it was peppered with French phrases.她的英语语法上没错，但是里面夹杂着很多法语短语。Many phrases in the last two chapters echo earlier passages.最后两章中的很多说法是对前面段落的呼应。Many literary academics simply parrot a set of im...

The lentil is just such a crop for many South Asians.小扁豆在南亚是原料农作物.It is also forbidden to serve bamboo shoots, kelp and lentil noodles.笋子 、 海带、南粉都禁止吃.He and Lentil kiss each other on the cheek.他和兰缇互吻脸颊致意....

If heterosexuality is normal, why a disproportionate number of mental patients heterosexual?假如异性恋倾向才是正常, 为什麽又有这麽多的精神病患是异性恋 呢 ?In broader usage, the term refers to any act of persuasion , between heterosexual or homosexua...

摘要青海软玉矿床产于中酸性侵入岩与大理岩接触带中.Nephrite deposits in Qinghai Province have occurred in contact belt between intermediate - acidic intrusive rocks and dolomite - marble....

You can criticise him until you're blue in the face, but you'll never change his personality.即使你苦口婆心地批评他，也改变不了他的个性。Far be it from me to criticise, but shouldn't their mother take a share of the blame?不是我要挑...

Horrified commuters saw the lorry veer across the motorway and overturn.惊恐万分的通勤者们看见那辆卡车突然冲向高速公路另一侧，接着翻倒在地。We saw the canoe overturn, throwing its passengers into the water.我们看到独木舟倾覆了, 把上面的乘客掀入水中.Since then, economists ha...

鲍勃走上了拉马特拥挤的大街, 他的脑子还是很迷乱.Bob walked down the crowded main street of Ramat, his mind still dazed.我的金条突然融化烧掉,你可曾觉得有点迷乱 吗 ?Have you been slightly dazzled at the sudden fusion of my ingots?这过去的十年对我来说就是生命中的一场迷乱.The past ten y...

Aurora Greenway: Why should I be happy about being a grandmother?我为什么要因为快成为奶奶而高兴?Aurora Greenway : To break the ice?为了打破僵局?The greenway is a more natural process. It is made by nature not by artificial methods.而绿脉则是更加自然的...

A balcony overhangs the door below it.阳台悬于其下方的楼门之上.A dark sky overhangs the earth.昏暗的天空笼罩大地.The analogous column is derived from frame without the overhangs.比拟柱按无挑臂框架导出....

At about 2000 BC they arrived Britain from the areas now know as Holland and Rhineland.约公元前2000年,他们从现在的荷兰和莱茵兰地区来到英国.Rhineland dishes are a speciality of the restaurant...莱茵兰菜是这家饭店的特色菜。Rhineland dishes are a speciality of...

Such a whistlestop tour does not remotely qualify me to prognosticate on China's grander questions.这样走马观花的游历，根本不足以让我就中国那些宏大的问题发表预测。Or else of thee this I prognosticate, Thy end is truth's and Beauty's doom...

The option lies between accepting the candidate the administration proposes and reconstituting search committee.可以在接受由领导提名的候选人以及重组选拔委员会之间作出选择....

I'd like to check him out of here the day after tomorrow.我想后天帮他办理手续，结账离开这里。She'sleaving the day after tomorrow.她打算后天离开。The new students will enter school the day after tomorrow.新生后天入学....

...a man of middling height.中等身材的男子So you're going to Paris? How's your French? Oh, fair to middling.这么说你打算去巴黎了? 你的法语怎样? 哦, 还马马虎虎吧.The meal is fair to middling.这餐饭菜还算过得去.The dinner was middling.饭菜还过得去.On that s...

The full force of his rage was unleashed against me.他把所有的怒气都发泄在我身上.The thunder of the oppressed was being unleashed!被压迫者的雷声发动了!He unleashed a torrent of abuse againstthe unfortunate shop assistant.他对那倒霉的店员骂不绝口....

It won't shake the football world if we beat Torquay.即便我们击败了托基队也不能撼动足球界。Torquay is undeniably continental.无可否认，托基具有典型的欧陆风情。Knowles became Torquay's manager. Nice one.诺尔斯成了托奇酒店的经理，干得很棒。...

木匠用他的锥子在木头上穿孔。The carpenter bored the wood with his drill.在穿孔卡片或纸带上穿孔的一种动作.A perforation, as in a punched card or paper tape.你认识鼻子上穿孔的人 吗 ?Do you know anyone with a pierced nose?...

What to do? Just to watch and ogle them from the other side of the ditch.去干 什么 ?只是为了可以在壕沟的这边眺望她们,向她们眉目传情.Do ogle her. Just remember to use discretion and show proper respect.记住你的目光中应透露出你慎重和尊敬——不行就装一下嘛.Ogle with little ho...

Estimate , debar and repair the failure of network and computers.网络系统、计算机硬件的故障判断、排除和送修.The railroad gates debar people from crossing the tracks.铁道的栅栏阻止行人跨越轨道....

一种棘齿装置把线从线轴转到梭心上。A ratchet mechanism transfers the thread from spool to bobbin.操作杆进一步弯曲，线轴发出刺耳的吱吱声。The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted.图的纵轴the vertical axis of the graph...

They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.战争期间，他们被关在狱中。I don't want to worry them by being incarcerated.我不想让他们知道我被拘禁的事情.He may have been incarcerated during those years.很有可能在这些年当中他已经被监禁....

I don't object to the children going with us.我不反对孩子们和我们一道去.I object to being repeatedly dropped on in this manner.我反对用这种方式屡次被挑中.Do you object to my speaking to him about it?我去和他谈谈这事,你有意见 吗 ?...

You can buy refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers, and other appliances there.在那里可以买到冰箱 、 炉具 、 洗碗机和其他家电产品.Some stoves are oil burners; others are gas burners.有些炉子是烧油的, 有些是烧瓦斯的.It finds widespread use in central - heating in...

Teenagers occasionally find it all too much to cope with and lapse into bad behaviour.青少年偶尔会因感到压力太大无所适从而做出不良行为。Occasionally he was even rather absentminded and faraway when the bride leaned forward and addressed him.偶尔,当...

It was not money that lured the adolescent husbandman to the cities, but the gay life.把那个青年农民引诱到城市的东西不是金钱, 而是那里的欢乐生活.I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.1我是真葡萄树, 我父是栽培的人.The husbandman that laboureth must...

“这位是布雷迪·科因，”萨姆突然转头对我说。"This is Brady Coyne," said Sam, jerking his head in my direction.格林讲述他有一次去布雷姆纳隐居之处看他的经历。Green recounts how he once went to see Bremner in his lair.在许多方面，布雷特和伯纳德截然不同。In many ways, Brett and Bernard ...