EXAMPLE: Because he gets plastered easily, my brother never drinks more than two glasses of beer or wine at dinner or a party.由于很容易喝得醉醺醺,我兄弟在晚宴或聚会上从不喝两杯以上的啤酒或葡萄酒。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Regardless of their hard work or loyalty to the company, the obdurate old owner refused to treat his employees kindly or fairly.尽管员工们努力工作,对公司忠心耿耿,但是老迈而固执的老板却不愿意好心或者公平地对待他们。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Exiguous levels of rainfall in certain desert regions barely enable local residents to maintain any form of agriculture.一些沙漠地区的降雨量稀少,使得当地居民难以耕种任何作物。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: I have known and trusted our accountant for many years, so I believe your suspicions of his dishonesty are quite unwarranted.我认识和信任我们的会计很多年,所以我认为你怀疑他不诚实基本没有根据。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: The airplane we will take for our journey over the mountains is filled with cargo and passengers, so we cannot take any superfluous baggage.我们将要乘坐的、飞越这些山脉的飞机载满了货物和乘客,所以我们无法带多余的行李了。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My stubborn business partners insist on long, pointless arguments about even the smallest details of our business, a practice which wastes a lot of time.我那顽固的商业伙伴总是对我们的业务发表无意义的长篇大论,哪怕是最微小的细节也不放过,这么做浪费了大量的时间。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My aunt importunes me to give her hostile, lazy son a good job in my company, but I continually refuse.我的姑妈缠着我,要我在我的公司里给她的待人不友善又懒惰的儿子安排一个好工作,但是我一直拒绝。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Yesterday my shy younger brother met a beautiful girl who seems to like him a lot, so hes been in a state of euphoria all day today.昨天,我的腼腆的弟弟遇到了一位似乎非常喜欢他的漂亮姑娘,所以今天他的情绪一直很欢快。[阅读全文]