[每日一贴] Good Sentences

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She described her childhood as a time of wonder and discovery.
她将她的少年时代描绘成一个充满幻想和发现的时期

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Always he sought someone to whom he could talk without caution.
他一直在找一个能够随便谈谈的人。

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I have every confidence in your ability to succeed.
我对你的成功有绝对把握

He possesses the quality of inspiring confidence.
他有本事能让别人信任他.

Don't lost your confidence
不要失去信心

Never break a confidence.
永远不要失信。

Hi is a confidence man.
他是个骗子。

[ confidence  adj.（形容词）
Of, relating to, or involving a swindle or fraud 欺诈的：欺骗的、与欺骗有关的或涉及欺骗的：
eg: a confidence scheme;欺诈的阴谋； a confidence trickster 欺诈的魔术师 ]


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Nowadays we rely increasingly on computers for help/to help us.
现今人们越来越依赖计算机协助工作.

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An idea flashed through his mind
一个念头忽然闪过他的心头

A bolt of lightning flashed across the horizon.
一道闪电划过地平线。

His first novel was a flash in the pan, and he hasn't written anything decent since.
他的第一部小说如昙花一现，此後他再没写出像样的东西。

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NASA scientists said the Russian meteor event, however, is a rare occurrence. Not since 1908, when a space rock exploded over Russia's Tunguska River in Siberia and flattened 825 square miles (2,137 square km) of uninhabited forest land, has a meteor event been so devastating.

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When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
如果你觉得想放弃，想想是什么让你坚持到如今。

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I don't think there's any way in the world you can sidestep all hell.
我想人生在世是不能躲过所有灾难的.

He was trying to sidestep responsibility.
他正试图回避责任。

The eager enlistee sidestepped the regulations by lying about his age
急切的应募者通过谎报自己的年龄躲过了规定的限制

Try your best to sidestep for sensitive issues like this.
你应尽可能地回避像这类敏感的问题。
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If Monsanto loses the case, Enright said, not only would crop development suffer at a time when the world’s demand for food is growing, but so would innovation in vaccines, stem cell therapies and biofuel-producing algae, to name a few.

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The assassination of Chokri Belaid has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis, says Fadhel Abdelkefi, chairman of the Tunis stock exchange.
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The program is the complex of our suggestions.
这个计划综合了大家的建议.

The shareholders try to make the company out of the complex situation.
股东们试图把公司变得不那么复杂。

Don't go on about her weight-you will give her a complex.
别再没完没了的谈她的体重了---你会让她有心理负担的！

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喵呜~UID: 3339380

楼主还在坚持啊  真是好榜样呢！！！

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252132618 发表于 2013-2-19 08:02
楼主还在坚持啊  真是好榜样呢！！！

呵呵，一起努力！共同进步！:loveliness:

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He towered over his mother.
他比他母亲要高。

At school, a girl may tower over most boys her age.
在学校，一个女孩可能比她同龄的大多数男孩子都要高出许多。

try to make oneself tower above others
努力让自己凌驾与他人之上

The Statue of Liberty towers above the harbor of New York.
自由女神像高高耸立于纽约港。

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They failed to carry out their objective.
他们没有完成他们的目标。

He tried to take an objective view of the situation.
他试图对形势有个客观的看法。

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Her request for a donation met with a rude repulse.
她要求赞助却遭到粗暴拒绝。

He asked for a donation but went away empty handed.
他请求人们捐款，但离开时却一无所获！

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支持楼主！

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我也来顶贴了！

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秋雨荆州 发表于 2013-2-20 08:53
我也来顶贴了！

多谢秋版 :handshake:loveliness:

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She dominated the meeting by sheer force of character.
她单凭个人气势就镇住了会场。

Sports, but not learning, seem to dominate in the school.
似乎是运动不是学习在学校占重要地位。

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Her time is fully occupied with her three children.
她的时间全部用在她的三个孩子身上了。

Reading occupies most of my free time
阅读占去了我空闲时间的大部分

No man could occupy his place in French literature.
没有人能够取代他在法国文学中的地位

A proper part-time job does not occupy students' too much time. In fact, it is unhealthy for them to spend all of time on their study. As an old saying goes: all work an no play makes JACK a dull boy.
一份适当的业余工作并不会占用学生太长的时间，事实上，把全部的时间用在学习上并不健康，正如老话说：只工作不玩耍，聪明的孩子会变傻。

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Among its recommendations, the study urges more comprehensive testing to identify other possible endocrine disrupters, their sources, and routes of exposure.  It notes what is known about these chemicals is just the tip of the iceberg.

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For a few hours this morning, NASA experienced what communications were like early on in the space era after communications went dead on the International Space Station during a routine software upgrade.

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Disease come on wings and depart on foot.
【谚】病来如山倒，病去如抽丝。

He is unwilling to depart from regular practice.
他不愿意背离常规。

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I had extracted a detailed account from him.
我从他那里打听出了详情。

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The insurance company requires three quotations for repairs to the car.
保险公司要三家修理这辆汽车的报价单。

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He has a low boiling point.
他很容易生气。

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He eased himself along the ledge to reach the terrified boy.
他小心翼翼地沿著突出的檐向那惊惶失措的男孩靠近。

Her mind was at ease knowing that the children were safe.
听说孩子们都很安全，她才放心

Ease down: there's a sharp bend ahead.
慢一点儿，前面有个急转弯。

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He has a mellow attitude to life.
他对生活有种成熟的看法。
Her attitude was implicit in the answer she gave us.
她在给我们的答复中态度是含蓄的。

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The route was once much travelled but has fallen into disuse.
这条路线旅行的人以前常走，但是现在已不用了。

the route to success/fame/power
获取成功，名誉，权力的途径

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There is a big drama at school when one of the teachers fell in the pond.
有个老师掉进了池塘里, 这件事轰动了全校。
make a drama out of sth
小题大做

If you lived with a drama queen, he or she would probably "get on your nerves," meaning "bother you a lot."
如果你和一个喜欢搬弄是非的人住在一起，那么她可能会给你带来无尽的烦恼。

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rain sheeting against the windshield.
滂沱大雨打在挡风玻璃上

The rain was coming down in sheets
大雨倾盆而下

It's sheeting down.
正下着倾盆大雨。

green grass sheeted land
绿色的小草遍布大地

Seeing the whole process of this terrible accident,he went as white as a sheet.
看到這可怖的事故，他臉色蒼白

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Disposition is the fundamental differences between us.
性格是我们之间最根本的区别。

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It may be many years before the new company can gain a secure foothold in the market.
也许要经过若干年这家新公司才能在市场上取得稳固的立足点。

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At last, we will all submit to the time.
最终，我们都会向时间屈服。

How can you submit to his roughing?  
你怎么能甘受他的粗野暴行?

to submit to chemotherapy忍受化疗之苦

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About the closest any research has come to supporting the tiredness theory is to confirm that adults yawn more often on weekdays than at weekends

He has gone about as far as beyond that fence to find his true love.
为了找到真爱，他走到了大约过那道栅栏那么远。

About the furthest he has gone to find his true love is beyond that fence.
为了找到真爱，他走得最远的远度大约就是过了那道栅栏。

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Unfortunately, the few scientific investigations of yawning have failed to find any connection between how often someone yawns and how much sleep they have had or how tired they are.

The few means a small set of people considered as separate from the majority, especially because they share a particular opportunity or quality that the others do not have.
eg： This should not be an experience for the few.
...a system built on academic excellence for the few.

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he came initially to spend a few days, but in the end she stayed for a whole month.
起先她只打算来待几天，但後来却住了整整一个月。

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the sunrise of classical art and sculpture.
古典艺术和雕刻的开始

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He is an agreeable fellow, but likes to blow his own horn.
他是一个随和的人，但就是喜欢自吹自擂。

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The increasing sale of luxury goods is an index of the country's prosperity.
奢侈商品销售量日增是该国繁荣的标志.

The government has imposed strict controls over the import of luxury goods.
政府对奢侈品的进口采取了严格的管制。

He invited me to his suite. The luxury takes your breath away.
他请我到他的套房里去, 那豪华的气派真会令你吃惊.
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The meaning of this passage seems quite transparent.
这一段的意思看来是相当清楚的。

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Man is the only animal that has the faculty of speech.
人类是唯一有说话能力的动物.

she had a great faculty for absorbing information
她十分擅长的汲取信息

If one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.
如果一个人有才能不用，就像废弃钥匙上的铁一样，这些才能会很快生锈，并最终无法完成安排给自己的工作。

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He did his best to further the interests of his state.
他尽力(或倾全力)去增进他的州的利益。

Additional training is probably the best way to further your career these days.

He dedicated his life to furthering the cause of world peace.

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Computer science is now a fully-fledged academic subject.
计算机科学目前已是一门成熟的学科。

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Shakespeare is a giant among writers.
莎士比亚是作家中的大文豪。

He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edition and Henry Ford.
他将会被认为是如同爱迪生和福特一样伟大的工业巨匠。

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
如果我比别人看得更远，那是因为我站在巨人的肩上.

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
这是个人的一小步，人类的一大步。

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I wish to propose a toast to our friendship.
我提议为我们的友谊干杯。

Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人成事在天

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The accident victims are in/have been taken into intensive care.
事故受害者在特别护理中[已送进特别护理病房].

His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing.
他进行了深入彻底的调查, 但没有发现什么。

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All the people who know this secret represent a security risk.
凡是知道这个秘密的人都对安全造成危险。

They feel love and hate, happiness and sadness, security and fear, pride and shame, comfort and discomfort.
他们感受爱和恨，快乐和悲伤，安全和恐惧，骄傲和羞耻，舒适和不安。

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Everyday Sentence is good! Thank you very much for sharing!

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yufenwang 发表于 2013-2-28 14:19
Everyday Sentence is good! Thank you very much for sharing!

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