例句
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她至少比我矮这么多。
She was at least that much shorter than me.
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Similes usually start with “like” or “as”.
明喻通常以like或as开头。
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I was in love with her—‘was’ being the operative word.
在I was in love with her这句话中，was是关键词。
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At the entry for “kill”, my thesaurus lists“murder”, “assassinate”and “waste”.
我的同义词词典在kill条目中列出murder, assassinate, waste词条。
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The car was out of control.
There was nothing I could do except prepare to meet my maker!汽车失控了,我完全无能为力,只能准备去见上帝！
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The language this computer uses is BASIC.
这台计算机使用的是BASIC语言。
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“And”, “but”and“whereas” are conjunctions.
and, but和whereas是连词。
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Between the ideal and the reality, Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。 ——Thomas Stearns EliotT.
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。 ——Norman Douglas英国作家道格拉斯
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If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。 ——Joshuas Reynolds美国散文家雷诺兹