...avelling to Rome for holiday, to
children off to Disney World in Orlando...theairport is not a dull place. All kinds of human emotions are on display: sad
(tearful goodbyes), happy (family get-togethers ), anxious (waiting in a long
line) and upset ( missing a flight ). Sometimes I think no matter ...
...sed always to lay her knitting
softly down, and the kitten stopped playing with the yarn on the floor, and the
clock ticked lower in the corner, and the fire died down to a glow, like an old
heart that is neither chilled nor dead, and grandmother sang. To be sure, it
would not do for the parlor and ...
The concierge
shrugged his shoulders. There was no other hotel of that name in Paris. It
occurred to me that Strickland had concealed his address, after all. In giving
his partner the one I knew he was perhaps playing a trick on him.请教老师:In giving his partner the one I knew he was perhaps ...
...ne in this country again. Iassure you, Sir Henry, that in a very few days the necessary arrangements will have been made and he will be on his way to South America. For God's sake, sir, I beg of you not to let the police know that he is still on the moor. They have given up the chase there, and...
语法书上好像没有提到。From the time Zhang Qian opened up the world-famous Silk Road during the Han Dynasty, until the collapse ofthe Yuan Dynasty, it enjoyed a history ofabout 1,600 years.这个句子里面的 time 后面是不是省略了 when 呢?
...hnology, I think we've lost an appreciation for something essential to the human experience :Quit. I'm not talking about the library style version of soft whispers, but about the soul-defining quiet ofintrospection,of solitude and of being ______.(填空处)……...
...late for a dinner party. But people are often
reproached for unpunctuality whentheir
only fault is cutting things fine. It is hard for energetic, quick-minded
people to waste time, so they are often tempted to finish a job before setting
out to keep an appointment. If no accidents occur on the way,...
...d a very ugly daughter who i could not have dreamed many boys fell in love with. 我知道这里是过去虚拟的形式,但我对此有点疑惑过去虚拟表示与过去的事实相反,但这里的i could not have dreamed-我那时怎么也想不到会...,是表明自己现在知道了...
...lone in a spreadsheet.The secret to a
healthy marriage is spreadsheets.But with the exception of those big-ticket
items,they keep their money separate.这对夫妻用电子表格追踪那些开支,健康婚姻的决窍是电子表格。但是高价的物品例外,他们会保持他们的资金...
...ed people may be find it hard to have an accurate concept of time compared with whenthey worked for companies or organisations because they don’t have to follow the fixed working time from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m..我写这句话想表达的意思是:和在公司上班相比,自由职业者往往很...
“Do the dead frighten you?” Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint ofa smile. 这是冰与火之歌中的一个句子,其中 with just the hint ofa smile 中译版本是带着一丝微笑,这里为什么不用 a hint ofa smile呢? 用 the hint of会有微笑的暗示的意思。
...stability was the second most important career goal (work-life balance was number one), followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the greater good. 请问,这个to feel good...是跟在dedicated后面呢,还是跟在sense后作后置定语修饰sen...
"Why, Dr. Watson, that's not you, is it? You are the last man that I should have expected to see out on the moor at this time of night. But, dear me, what's this? Somebody hurt? Not - don't tell me that it is our friend Sir Henry!" He hurried past me and stooped over the d...