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They were not using criticism but mud.
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他们并不是批评而是诽谤。 |
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They were not willing to set up home in the country.
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他们不愿意在农村建立家庭。 |
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They were observed entering the bank.
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有人看到他们进入银行。 |
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They were odd, silent, nearly all old, and from the way they stared they looked as though they'd just come from dark little rooms or even—-even cupboards!
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他们古怪、沉默，几乎都很老。看他们睁大眼睛的样子，好像是刚从黑暗的小屋子里出来，甚至——甚至是刚从小橱柜里出来。 |
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They were of a respectable family in the north of England.
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他们属于北英格兰一个有名望的家庭。 |
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They were off to visit a friend of theirs.
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他们动身去拜访他们的朋友。 |
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They were often compelled to work twelve or fourteen hours a day.
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他们常常不得不每天工作12或14个小时。 |
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They were old second-class cars, but instead of cane seats or glass windowpanes that could be raised or lowered, they had wooden benches polished by the warm, unadorned bottoms of the poor.
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这是老式的二等车厢，但不是藤制座位和可以升降的玻璃挡板，其木头座位已经被穷人温暖、朴实的臀部磨得锃亮。 |
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They were on cloud nine.
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乐颠颠如处九重天极乐之境。 |
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They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.
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它们在上层，我们从窗口可以看到街道进出口和斯托克默林宅第有人住的那一侧。 |
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They were on their way to the library.
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他们正要去图书馆。 |
