EXAMPLE: My enthusiastic friend loves watching basketball on television and always provides me with a running commentary whenever we watch his favorite team play.我的充满激情的朋友喜欢看篮球电视转播,每当我们观看他喜欢的球队比赛时,他就滔滔不绝地给我解说。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: There are not enough concert tickets for everyone in the long line, and since its first come, first served, its possible that the people who are last in line may not get any tickets.音乐会的门票已经不够长队里每人一张了。先到者先得,所以排在队尾的人可能拿不到任何票了。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: I found an old locked chest in my grandfather抯 house and a bag of keys, so by trial and error I tried each key until I found the one key which opened the chest.我在祖父的房间里发现了一个锁住的箱子和一包钥匙,我采取试错的方法,用每把钥匙试开,直到其中一把打开了箱子。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: The companys marketing director claims that adopting a prestige price strategy will increase sales among wealthier customers who are more concerned with high status than authentic high quality.这家公司的营销总监宣称,采用名望价格战略将增加在富裕顾客中的销售,他们更在乎高身份,而不是真正的高质量。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Spending a fortune on advertising and pushing their sales representatives to the limits, the rival companies engaged in a pitched battle for dominance of their industry.这家竞争对手为了取得行业主导地位发起了激烈的争斗,在广告上大把投钱,把销售代表逼到了极致。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: One of my co-workers told me she heard our boss say hes retiring next year, but I dont believe her because I never trust secondhand information.我的一位同事告诉我,她听我们老板说,他将在明年退休,但我不信她的话,因为我从不相信二手信息。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Our customers can return purchases with a receipt at any time, and when they do so, our employees are trained to say No worries! in a cheerful way.我们的客户随时凭收据退货,在他们退货时,我们的员工练就了以兴高采烈的态度回答“没问题!”。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: The young new musician gave a gobsmacking performance at her first public concert, and became famous immediately.这位新出道的青年音乐家在她第一次公开音乐会上的表现令人称奇,一炮走红。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: The brilliant professor of physics makes lengthy digressions about unrelated topics whenever he speaks to his class, often making his lectures difficult to understand.这位聪明的物理学教授一上课就大讲与课目无关的离题话,使得他的课经常很难懂。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: At the beginning of the opera, a choir of soft voices sang a poignant aubade as the night sky began to brighten in the east.在歌剧一开始,随着东方的夜空开始变得明亮,一支轻声唱诗班唱起了动人的晨曲。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: The unusual surprise visit of our president to the factory tomorrow could spell trouble, and everyone is a little nervous.我们董事长明天对工厂不同寻常的突访可能意味着麻烦要来了,所以我们都有点紧张。[阅读全文]
EXAMPLE: Im discouraged because my manager dances around the issue every time I try to ask him about increasing my salary.我很泄气,因为每次我想求我的经理给我涨工资时,他都避而不谈。[阅读全文]