He had siphoned thousands of pounds a week from the failing business.他一周之内从这家濒临破产的企业里抽走了数千英镑的资金。The water had to be siphoned off.得把水抽出来。Surgeons siphoned off fluid from his left lung.外科医生抽出了他左肺中的积液。...
Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.然而在实际生活中, 有些事情有时候的确好象神差鬼使一样地促成了一些除了十九世纪小说家外谁也不会相信的巧合.For a novelist,...
据说他已经失去了生存的意志。He was said to have lost his will to live.水是鱼能生存的环境.Water is the medium in which fish can live.他们不仅丢掉了工作，还失去了居所、自尊乃至生存的理由。They have lost not only their jobs, but their homes, their self-respect and even the...