The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.这孩子正在忙着做什么手工.music with a tendency towards contrivance and lack of substance.矫揉造作而缺乏实质性内容的音乐Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.这种机器是一般人发明不出来的....
To ensure the credibility, author also adopts historicism and factorization.为保证真实性, 笔者还采用了历史研究法和因素分析法等.The police have lost their credibility...警方已经失去了公众的信任。The government is desperate to regain credibility with the publ...
The concept can be compared to Max Ernst's 9 frottage 10 or Leonardo da Vinci's 11 scribbling 12 and drawings.这一概念能同马克思·恩斯特的擦印画法或达芬奇的信笔而画和素描相媲美.Art experts have appealed for the suspension of plans to restore o...
It was a flippant and unfeeling remark.这番话既轻率又无情。He now dismisses that as a flippant comment.他现在把那当作轻率的随口一说不再理会了。Don't be flippant, damn it! This is serious.别不当回事，该死！这可不是闹着玩儿的事。Don't be flippant, damn it! This ...
The market traders cried out like barnyard cocks.市场商贩就像农家场院的公鸡一样大声吆喝.The turkey struts about ( the barnyard ).火鸡翘起尾羽 ( 在谷仓附近 ) 走来走去.He walked up to the barnyard in a royal way.昂首阔步地走到谷仓空地那里....
吉福德是我的一位朋友。我和他认识9年了。Gifford was a friend. I'd known him for nine years.吉福德是个非常有教养的人,他遭受着内心的挣扎, 最终抑郁而死.Gifford, a highly educated man who suffered from inward struggle, died of depression at last....