EXAMPLE: My sister doesn’t have much money, but she always dresses with a sense of flair, and at parties she’s often best dressed woman in the room.我的妹妹不是太有钱,但她的穿着总是带有时尚感,在聚会上,她经常是穿得最好看的那个女人。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Our company used to be careless and waste a lot of money, but now we are trying to be more cost-effective by looking at the financial returns we get for every investment we make.我们公司过去不精打细算,浪费了很多钱,但现在,我们关注每笔投资的回报,努力提高成本效益。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: I did a lot of soul-searching before telling my father that I wanted to leave our family’s business and start my own company.在经过一番思索后,我对父亲说,我想离开家族企业,自己创业。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: While I love our aunt, she annoys me by always giving me stern advice about my career and introducing me to strange people she wants me to marry. I think she is a meddler.我爱舅妈,但她总在我的职业方面向我提苛刻的建议,还给我介绍陌生人,想让我结婚,这令我感到恼火。我觉得她是个好管闲事的人。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My family is celebrating my dad’s hard-won battle over cancer, which has required many trips to the hospital and long periods of great discomfort.我家正在庆祝爸爸艰难战胜了癌症。为了治病,他多次去医院,长期感到难受。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: After I was badly hurt in our basketball game last night, my four teammates came to visit me in the hospital today.昨晚,我在参加篮球比赛时严重受伤,今天有4位队友来医院看我。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: When he was younger, my son was always a very nice boy, but when he became an adolescent, he became testy and annoying.我的儿子小时候一直是个好孩子,但进入青春期后,他变得爱发火和惹人烦。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My old friend is quite well-heeled, and he owns a large house in the mountains and another one in the city where he lives.我的老朋友相当富有,他在山区拥有一套大房子,在他居住的城市里还有一套。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: At the end of their long and difficult day in the strange foreign city, the tourists were frazzled and did not want to leave their peaceful hotel.游客们在这个陌生的外国城市度过了漫长而艰难的一天,最后都筋疲力尽,不想离开他们入住的安静酒店。[阅读全文]