Fair words slake wrath; fair words hurt not the mouth.好言好语息人怒; 说好话于己无损.We had to slake ourselves with rainwater in the desert.在沙漠中我们不得不用雨水解渴.Nothing can slake his anger.无事可平息他的怒气....
Van Loon did not shy away from controversial statements.房龙并不回避富有争议的言论.common loon白嘴潜鸟Why are loon hatchlings in Wisconsin emerging deformed from their eggs?为什么维斯康新州的潜鸟幼儿从它们蛋中孵化就是畸形?To van Loon, human achievement mattered...
Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.有人剪掉了我们郁金香的花冠。They lopped 20 p off the price of each unit.他们把单价削减了20便士.Several branches had been lopped off ( the tree ).( 从树上 ) 砍下了几条枝桠....
...his final Prom performance of Elgar's First Symphony.逍遥音乐会上他的压轴曲目——埃尔加的《第一交响曲》Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure...人们对埃尔加赞誉有加，但他却常觉得自己是个失败者。Elgar supplied hi...