蓝色底色将红色涂料衬托得愈加浓重。The blue base gives the red paint more depth.那个房间很奇怪，墙壁一半贴壁纸，一半刷涂料。The room was strange, the walls half papered, half painted.雷用专门的防锈涂料涂船的吃水线以下的部位。Ray painted below the waterline with a special anti-rust...
You can't keep up the pretense any longer.你无法继续伪装下去了.make no pretense to special knowledge不以有专门知识自居He made a pretense of affection [ of being affectionate ] .他假装有 情.It is merely a pretense.这只是托词而已....a plain-spoken ...
Miss Melville took a cookie and nibbled at it.梅尔维尔小姐拿起一块饼干小口吃起来。The rabbits nibbled away on the herbaceous plants.兔子把那些草本植物一点点地啃吃掉了。You’ve only nibbled at your lunch.你午饭只吃了几口。Several companies have nibbled at our offer.若...
In some ways it was an ennobling influence.在某些方面,这起到了圣洁的作用.If God be with us are in ennobling company, even though we are poor and despised.若上帝与我们同在, 即使我们贫穷,又受人藐视,也算不得什麽....
他不喜欢在细节上被人抓住把柄。He did not like to be caught out on details.他曾告诉一位采访者，他甚至都不喜欢摇滚乐。He once told an interviewer that he didn't even like rock music.“这不是我喜欢的音乐形式。”——“对，这不是。”"It's not one of my favourite forms of mus...
I'm very much a loner — I never go out.我这人非常孤僻，从不出门。Although they're expensive, they last forever and never go out of style.尽管价格昂贵，但它们经久耐用，永不过时。When we go out, girls are always giving me the evil eye.我们出去时，女孩子们...