EXAMPLE: Our accounting consultant may be old but shes sharp as a tack, and in only a few minutes she found a number of errors in our accounts.我们的会计顾问虽然年老,但是非常机灵,她在几分钟内就发现了账目中的很多错误。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My flight is in thirty minutes, but Ive lost both my wallet and my airplane ticket, so now Im really in a fix.我的航班30分钟内就要起飞,可我的钱包和机票丢了,所以我现在真的有麻烦了。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Day in, day out, our employees work hard, which explains our companys continual success and steady growth.我们的员工平时工作勤奋,所以公司能够不断取得成功和实现稳定增长。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: On the airplane yesterday, I sat next to a nervous passenger who talked a blue streak during the whole ninety minutes of our flight.昨天在飞机上,我坐在一位紧张的乘客旁边,在整整90分钟的飞行时间里,他一直口若悬河地讲话。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My new house looked fine until it started raining yesterday and a dozen leaks in its roof cropped up.我的新房子看上去一直挺好,直到昨天开始下雨,屋顶突然出现了十几道裂缝。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My energetic aunt is a social butterfly who enjoys going to several parties a week and has dozens of close friends with whom she spends time.我姑姑精力充沛,是个社交迷,喜欢一周参加数次聚会,拥有好几十位和她一起打发时间的亲密朋友。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Confusion on the dock this morning kept the ship from leaving at noon, and so it incurred several hours of demurrage before finally leaving port.今晨码头的混乱使这艘船无法在中午出发,滞留了好几个小时才最终离港。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My son is a great young hotel chef today, and it’s hard to believe that as a child he was such a butterfingers that he often dropped cups and dishes while eating.我儿子现在是一位出色的酒店大厨,很难相信,他小时特别笨手笨脚,在吃饭时经常掉杯碟。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My unhappy old neighbor always bad-mouths her unfortunate husband because he doesn’t earn enough money to please her.我的不快乐的老邻居总是说她可怜丈夫的坏话,因为他挣不到足够让她满意的钱。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: My younger brother is a lamestain with no sense of style or interest in the kind of music my friends and I like.我弟弟是个不合群的人,他不懂时尚,对于我和我朋友喜欢的音乐也不感兴趣。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: As part of their marketing plan, the new film’s producers want to eventize it by organizing big opening nights in movie theaters on three continents.这部新影片的制作人想通过在三大洲的电影院里组织大型首映夜活动来进行推广,这是他们营销计划的一部分。[阅读全文]