[每日一贴] Good Sentences

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I don't like being desk-bound all day.
我不喜欢整天拴在办公桌旁（如在办公室里）.

With one bound, he was over the wall.
他纵身一跃就跳过了墙。

We should bound our desire by reason.
我们应该以理智限制欲望。

They were bound to notice something.
有些事也会引起他们的注意。

You've done so much work─you're bound to pass the exam.
你下了这么大工夫，考试绝对没问题。

He's too bound up in his work to have much time for his children.
他工作太忙，没有很多时间陪孩子们。

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His analysis of the problem showed great perception.
他对该问题的分析显示出敏锐的洞察力。

While you're doing the analysis,I'm running the lab.
在你进行分析的同时，我在做实验

I have no analysis about you
我对你一无所知

We can figure out the truth through all the analysis that he made earlier.
我们可以通过所有他早些时候做的分析找到真相。

In the last analysis, the responsibility for this failure must lie with the chief engineer.
追根究底,失败的责任在于总工程师。

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Common tastes form a bond between the two men
共同的爱好是两个人结交为朋友

Once you've formed an opinion, it is natural to bond with it, much as a parent bonds with a baby.

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kantong 发表于 2013-3-2 00:50
I don't like being desk-bound all day.
我不喜欢整天拴在办公桌旁（如在办公室里）.

哇，深夜看到楼主！

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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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the circulation of money/information/ideas
货币的流通／信息的传播／观念的流行

The circulation of gossip is abhorrent.
传播流言蜚语是可恶的。

I had been out of circulation for a month and knew that many friends would be there.
我有一个月深居简出，不过我知道许多朋友正等着我。

These ideas have been in circulation for some time.
这些想法已经流行了一段时间

Many forged notes are in circulation.
许多假钞在流通。

And further, an elite can be defined as a group that is able to monopolize a certain class of information, and keep it out of circulation.
此外，精英人士可被定义成一个能控制特定信息类型并阻止其传播的集团。

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.
今天若来阅读这些书，会不禁诧异于这样一个事实：评论文集中这些学术性的内容曾被认为适合刊登在面向普通读者发行的日报上。

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absent friends; absent parents.
远方的朋友；远方的父母

a country in which morality is absent.
一个缺乏道德的国家

He seems absent minded.What happened to him?
他看起来心不在焉。发生什么事了？

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The captain is absolved from all blame and responsibility for the shipwreck.
那位船长被免除了因船只失事而遭致的非难和罪责。

You can't retreat from the responsibility in this affair.
你不能回避在这一事件中的责任。

There has to be a sense of urgency about action, and since we’re not likely to find it in Washington between now and the election, it’s time for companies and businesses to step up and find a balance between profitability and responsibility.
在行动上，我们必须要有紧迫感，因为从现在开始直到大选前，我们不可能从华盛顿那里得到什么帮助。现在是公司和企业站出来的时候，我们应该寻求一个利润和责任的平衡点。

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秋雨荆州 发表于 2013-3-1 11:50
哇，深夜看到楼主！

呵呵，你的深夜是我的白天！！ :loveliness:

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yufenwang 发表于 2013-3-1 13:58
rain sheeting against the windshield.
滂沱大雨打在挡风玻璃上

Good Quotes

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an infectious laugh.
有感染力的微笑

tuberculosis is an chronic infectious disease.
肺结核是一种慢性传染疾病。
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Simple configuration is easy to use and maintain.
结构简单，易掌握及维修。

Better configuration can increase operational efficiency.
良好的设备布置可以提高工作效率。

I like the configuration of the room very much.
我喜欢这个房间的布局。

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The plant was starved of light and died.
这株植物因极度缺少光照而死亡

Children starve for affection.
孩子渴望得到疼爱。

time-starved
没有时间的，时间紧迫的
oxygen-starved
缺氧的

They starved the enemy into submission.
他们切断敌军粮援而迫其投降。

[ starve sb into sth/into doing sth 断绝食物（资金）来源以迫使某人做某事 ]

she said political freedom had evaporated .“I have always lived well,we are not starving, of course, but we were turned into cattle.”
她说政治自由已经消失，“我生活得很好，我们没有挨饿，当然，但我们被变成了牛。”

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Damn it! Boy, you earned your dessert tonight, kiddo.
可恶！ 小子，你今晚可真算是赚了。

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The challenge for mathematicians became how to classify the complete set of these simple groups.
数学家的挑战在于，如何对这些简单群的完整集合进行分类。

The majority of schools classify their students by academy achievements.
大多数学校用学术成绩将他们的学生分类。


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The dispute was brought to a satisfactory termination.
争端得到圆满的解决.

Policy termination is a subfield of policy analysis necessarily to be addressed.
政策终结本是一块等待耕耘的领域，极需有志者对之踏入研究。

The attack, from its commencement to its termination , had not occupied an hour.
这场攻击，从头到底，还不到一个小时。

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The dawning sweeps off all the haze after the heavy rain, the blue sky looks quietly exciting ,especially after there was a saddened war at night.
一场大雨后，黎明扫去了所有的阴霾，蔚蓝的天空看起来格外令人兴奋，尤了其是夜间发成一场惨烈的大战之后。

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学习了~！

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Thrift is the basement of richness.
节约是富裕的基础。

Diligence is the basement of the success
勤奋是成功的基础

Tolerance is the basement of freedom.
容忍是一切自由的根基；

Dust coated the furniture in my basement.
我家地下室的家具盖满了灰尘。

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irradiate farm produce so as to destroy bacteria.
照射农产品以杀死细菌

irradiate goodness.
散发出善良

faces irradiated with joy


The cells are irradiated so that they cannot reproduce.

...the Chernobyl disaster, which irradiated large parts of Europe.

...the harmful effects of irradiation and pollution.

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the mate to this glove.
这支手套的另一支

They've been good mates ever since they were at school together.


He is looking for a wife but he hasn't found his ideal mate.
他正在寻找未来的妻子，但还没有找到理想人选。

Peacocks use their beautiful tails to attract mates.

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The old barn we bought to convert into flats was practically tumbling down.
那个旧谷仓我们买下想改建住房的, 实际上已经快塌了.
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But it seems unlikely that man should be able to adjust that which the law cannot determine; it may be replied, that the law having laid down the best rules possible, leaves the adjustment and application of particulars to the discretion of the magistrate; besides, it allows anything to be altered which experience proves may be better established.

                                            -----A Treatise on Government by Aristotle
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A plant which annually produces a thousand seeds, of which on an average only one comes to maturity, may be more truly said to struggle with the plants of the same and other kinds which already clothe the ground.
                                           -----The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles
                                          
I even meditated at one time a visit to the remote posts of the company in the boats which annually ascended the lakes and rivers, being thereto invited by one of the partners; and I have ever since regretted that I was prevented by circumstances from carrying my intention into effect.
  --Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington

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Tall trees obstructed his view of the road.
有大树遮挡着，他看不见道路。

After the earthquake many roads were obstructed by collapsed buildings.

He got five years in prison for withholding evidence and obstructing the course of justice.

Snow began to fall an hour after they started, a fine snow, however, which happily could not obstruct the train; nothing could be seen from the windows but a vast, white sheet, against which the smoke of the locomotive had a greyish aspect.
                                        -----Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules
                                       

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For dinner IS a mystery,--a mystery of which even the greatest chef knows but little, as a poet knows not,
                                -----The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard
                              
Tinsley, bowed down with the laurels of both hemispheres, raises himself to yet nobler heights in his capacity of a devoted chef.
                                            -----Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard
   
Her relatives considered that the penury of her table discredited the Mingott name, which had always been associated with good living; but people continued to come to her in spite of the "made dishes" and flat champagne, and in reply to the remonstrances of her son Lovell (who tried to retrieve the family credit by having the best chef in New York) she used to say laughingly: "What's the use of two good cooks in one family, now that I've married the girls and can't eat sauces?
                                                -----The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith

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The bus driver clipped our tickets to show we had used them.
公共汽车司机在我们的车票上打孔，标明使用过了。

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His simplicity sets off the satire, and gives it a finer edge
“他的淳朴反而具有讽刺意味且令人印象深刻”

The brisk walk gave an edge to my appetite.
轻松的散步使我的食欲增加不少

I need a sandwich to take the edge off my appetite.
我需要一份三明治以解腹中之饥。

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kantongUID: 3290098

Thesaurus   for  #12
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[what you want to achieve when you do something]

purpose

the reason you do or plan something, and the thing you want to achieve when you do it:
▪ The games have an educational purpose.

purpose of
▪ The purpose of the experiment is to find better ways of treating battlefield wounds.

the main purpose
the most important purpose
▪ The main purpose of the meeting is to discuss who will be in the team.

somebody’s purpose in doing something
▪ My purpose in writing this book was to draw attention to the problem of global warming.

for the purpose of (doing) something
▪ There is no penalty if the quarterback deliberately throws the ball out of bounds for the purpose of stopping play.

for this/that purpose
▪ Read up on starting a small business. Loans can be obtained for this purpose.

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aim

something you hope to achieve:
▪ Increasing student awareness of the issue is one of our aims.

political/business/economic etc aim
▪ Membership of NATO is one of the country’s long-term political aims.

the aim is to do something
▪ The organization’s aims are to provide food for homeless people and help them find somewhere to live.
▪ The aim was to enroll all children in schools close to their homes.

aim of
▪ The aim of the bombers was to destroy public property and get maximum publicity.

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point

the purpose of something that you are doing or planning - use this especially when someone does not understand what the purpose is:

point of
▪ The point of the experiment is to show how this chemical reacts with water.

the whole point
exactly the purpose of doing something
▪ The whole point of this TV show is to get you to buy Simmons’ exercise videos.

see the point of something
understand why someone does something
▪ I can’t see the point of travelling all that way and then only staying for one day.

miss the/somebody’s point
not understand why someone does something
▪ You’re missing my point completely - I’m not talking about restructuring the
department

what’s the point?
use this when you think there is no good reason for something
▪ Too many of these kids think, ‘What’s the point of going to college?’

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idea

the effect or result that you hope to achieve by doing
something - use this especially when you are doubtful whether that effect or result can be achieved:
▪ We make toys that are both fun and educational - at least that’s the idea.

the idea is to do something
▪ The idea of the centre was to provide a place where old people could go during the day.

the idea behind something
▪ The idea behind the commercials is that reading is as cool and entertaining as their favorite bands.

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objective

formal the thing that someone is trying to achieve, especially in business or politics:
▪ The report focused on three of the business’s objectives.

business/military/political objective
▪ State your business objectives clearly.

the objective is to do something
▪ The objective of this computer game is to design a city.

achieve an objective
▪ The President believes that all military objectives have been achieved.

main/primary objective
▪ The company’s main objective is to keep recyclable material out of landfills.


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object

the intended result of a plan, action, or activity, especially when this may be difficult to achieve:

the object is to do something
▪ In this game the object is to score as many points as you can in the time given.

object of
▪ The object of the search was to find a small plane that has been missing for two days.

the object of the exercise
the object of whatever you are doing
▪ The object of the exercise is to keep kids in school, rather than let them leave without graduating.

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goal

what a person, organization, or country hopes to achieve in the future, even though this might take quite a long time:
▪ School children have definite goals towards which they can work.

the goal is to do something
▪ Her goal is to find a company willing to donate money for research.

goal of
▪ The goal of the partnership is to improve his company’s profit margin.

reach/meet a goal
▪ The Red Cross has reached its goal of raising $1.6 million for relief.

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target

the exact result that a person or organization intends to achieve by doing something, often the amount of money they want to get:
▪ The target for the appeal is £20,000, all of which will go to children’s charities.
▪ Our target is the release of all political prisoners.

meet/reach/achieve a target
▪ The government is struggling to reach its original target of $23 billion in spending cuts.

target [adjective only before noun]
▪ The magazine has a target readership of half a million people its target is half a million readers.

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秋雨荆州UID: 2903781

kantong 发表于 2013-4-10 04:55
Thesaurus   for  #12
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楼主好久不见:loveliness: