"I think I hear the telephone ringing."—"Okay, I can take a hint."“我想我听到电话铃在响。”——“好的，我明白你的意思了。”The Chief Constable's clipped tones crackled over the telephone line.电话线那头噼里啪啦地传来警察局长短促的声音。I ripped out the telephone wi...
All day she had fought off the impulse to telephone Harry.她一整天都在克制自己想给哈里打电话的冲动。'Somebody wants you on the telephone' — 'But no one knows I'm here!'“有人打电话找你。”——“可没有人知道我在这里啊！”He banged down the tel...
It felt like the loneliest place in the world.感觉这就像是天底下最荒凉的地方。He felt he must be the loneliest man in the world.他成为世界上最孤独的人!Antarctica is the loneliest place on earth.南极是地球上最偏远的地区....
The creaking of the hinges sounded very loud in that silence.在那片寂静之中，铰链吱吱嘎嘎的声音听起来很响。She heard one of Harry's doors creaking and threw on some clothes.她听见哈里的车门嘎嘎作响,就披衣起床." All right,'said Drouet, creaking off in...
This is a pity, because noise abatement really is a good cause, and it is likely to be discredited if it gets to be associated with bad science.这是件憾事, 因为减少噪音实在是一项美好的事业; 如果把它与贫乏的科学知识搅在一起,那么这种美好的事业有可能使人生疑.Fractures of the ...
I'm very much a loner — I never go out.我这人非常孤僻，从不出门。In school I was a loner. I went my own way.在学校里我独来独往，我行我素。He was a paradox—a loner who loved to chat to strangers.他真是个矛盾人物，生性孤僻却又喜欢和陌生人闲聊。...
The tax increase sounded the death knell for the business.税赋的增加为这个企业敲响了丧钟。It's going to be the death knell of the red deer.这将导致马鹿的灭绝。The arrival of large supermarkets sounded the death knell of many small local shop...