Fair words slake wrath; fair words hurt not the mouth.好言好語息人怒; 說好話于己無損.We had to slake ourselves with rainwater in the desert.在沙漠中我們不得不用雨水解渴.Nothing can slake his anger.無事可平息他的怒氣....
...his final Prom performance of Elgar's First Symphony.逍遙音樂會上他的壓軸曲目——埃爾加的《第一交響曲》Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure...人們對埃爾加贊譽有加，但他卻常覺得自己是個失敗者。Elgar supplied hi...
Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.有人剪掉了我們郁金香的花冠。They lopped 20 p off the price of each unit.他們把單價削減了20便士.Several branches had been lopped off ( the tree ).( 從樹上 ) 砍下了幾條枝椏....
Van Loon did not shy away from controversial statements.房龍并不回避富有爭議的言論.common loon白嘴潛鳥Why are loon hatchlings in Wisconsin emerging deformed from their eggs?為什么維斯康新州的潛鳥幼兒從它們蛋中孵化就是畸形?To van Loon, human achievement mattered...