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Example: They seek office, not to be useful to the state, but for the loaves and fishes.
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他们谋求公职,不是为了对国家有用,而是为了个人私利。 |
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Example: They think Mike's plan is the tower of Babel.
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他们认为迈克的计划是空想。 |
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Example: They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
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例句:他们认为他们已经找到了蒙骗福利机关的途径。 |
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Example: This place is thought the Garden of Eden by young people.
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在年轻人看来,这个地方是他们的伊甸园。 |
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Example: Tom's grandma lived to be over a hundred—lived to be Adam and Eve, as they say.
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汤姆的奶奶活到一百多岁——像别人说的,都活成老祖宗了。 |
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Example: University graduate students continued to rake in awards and honors this year.
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毕业生们今年继续大量得到各种奖励和荣誉。 |
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Example: We learned that it was more expensive than we thought to retrofit our old production facility with new equipment and retrain our employees to operate it.
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我们发现用新设备改造旧生产厂以及对员工进行再培训的花费比我们预先想象的要昂贵。 |
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Example: We need a viable program for training young, unskilled workers quickly and cheaply.
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我们需要一个迅速并经济地培训年轻的不熟练工人的可行计划。 |
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Example: We requested a waiver from responsibility for damages to our products sent by sea during typhoon season.
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对于在台风季节海运我们的产品所造成的损坏,我们要求免于负责。 |
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Example: We stalked the wounded tiger to its lair.
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我们偷偷跟踪受伤的老虎到它的兽穴。 |
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Example: We've been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again.
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我们一直处在困难的境地,但一切都开始好起来了。 |