...出决定，拿定主意pass up 放过，放弃，错过（机会）have second thoughts （对原先的决定）犹豫，产生怀疑put off 推迟，使……延期reject … out of hand 坚决拒绝；彻底否决weigh up 仔细考虑，权衡participation /pɑːˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃn/ n. 参加，参...
...n of nuclear power stations 第一代核电站The
company is launching the second-generation model of this car in March. 该公司要在三月推出该车的第二代车型。Now,
there is a fourth generation of computers, with a complete computer processor
on a single chip. (55) 现在已有第四...
...ue of talent. 这个老板很肤浅，不认识到人才的价值。●The second chapter of thisgrammar book deals with sentence patterns. 这本语法书的第2章讲的是句型。 ●They were chatting when suddenly a flash of lightning flashed
through the sky. 他们正在聊天，这时突然...
...ing inspirational figures into UK schools.Andria Zafirakou, a north
London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring about a classroom
revolution (变革). “We are going to make a
change,” she said. “I’ve started a project to promote the teaching of the arts
in our schools."The proj...
...ve. However, they took significantly more
when the actor was thin. For the second test, in one case
the thin actor took two pieces of candy from the snack bowls. In the other
case, she took 30 pieces. The results were similar to the first test: the
participants followed suit but took significantly m...
...he bread and put two slices into the egg mixture. Next, Jeff
turned on the second stove burner to heat up the frying pan. Everything was
going smoothly until Jeff started frying the bread. The pan was too hot and the
bread turned black within seconds. Jenna threw the burnt piece into the sink
and pu...
... the
airport building and jumped into the first taxi on the rank without a second
thought.That was when I met Gunter. I told him where I was going,
but he said he hadn’t heard of the bus station. I thought my pronunciation was
the problem, so I explained again more slowly, but he still looked conf...
...odern world. Yet
properly understood, the age of electricity is merely the second stage in the
age of steam, which began a century earlier. “It
is curious that no one has put together a history of both the steam and
electric revolutions. ” writes Maury Klein in his book The Power Makers, Steam,
...
...I did not love writing. My family came from Brazil, so
English was only my second language. Writing was so difficult and painful for
me that my teacher had allowed me to present my paper on the sinking of the Titanic
by acting out a play, where I played all the parts. No one laughed harder
than he d...
...ring inspirational figures into UK schools.Andria
Zafirakou,a north London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring
about a classroom revolution (变革). “We are going to
make a change,” she said. “I’ve started a project to promote the teaching of
the arts in our schools."The proj...
...he bread and
put two slices into the egg mixture. Next, Jeff turned on the second stove
burner to heat up the frying pan. Everything was going smoothly until Jeff
started frying the bread. The pan was too hot and the bread turned black within
seconds. Jenna threw the burnt piece into the sink and pu...
...出了一种包含起始单位(an initial/a first unit)和第二单位(a second unit)的结构，并提出了检验二者之间关系的三条标准：①起始单位能够删除。②第二单位能够删除。③二者能够互换位置。他认为上图[a]句中的“the governor's contention th...
...ing inspirational figures into UK schools.Andria Zafirakou, a north London secondary school teacher, said
she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution (变革). “We are going to make a change,” she said. “I’ve started a
project to promote the teaching of the arts in our schools."The proj...