His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.他的社会地位提高之迅速令人吃惊。It would be wrong to portray his life as a calculated ascent to power at any cost.如果把他的一生描述成不惜任何代价一心想向上爬，那就错了。It was a tough course over a gradual ascen...
这条道路得名于这些树木，它们沿两边的路缘间隔均匀地排列着。The trees which gave the road its name stood at regular intervals along the kerb.我车子的左前轮撞在一大块松动的路缘石上，导致车胎爆裂、轮辋凹陷。A great chunk of loose kerbing smashed into my left-front wheel, bursting the ...