《经济学人》每日一词:avert
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
你与其一生如履薄冰只为躲避灾祸,不如放手去活——防住了万一,却辜负了当下。
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
你与其一生如履薄冰只为躲避灾祸,不如放手去活——防住了万一,却辜负了当下。
a lacklustre conference
不尽人意的销售数据预示着会有更多人被裁员。
The lacklustre sales figures foreshadow more redundancies.
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
奉承如同口香糖:享受无妨,切忌当真。
盘根错节的电缆
a thicket of cables
错综复杂的繁文缛节
a thicket of red tape
晨学午习可巩固记忆。
Morning learning plus afternoon review consolidates information into memory.
积压的电子邮件
a backlog of emails
ramp 一词源自古法语 ramper (攀、爬、登),最早于14世纪进入英语而来。起初用作动词表示纹章图案中的狮子等“以后腿为支点跃立并扬起前爪”,或者作为恫吓姿势“跃立着张牙舞爪”,通常一只前爪高过另一只前爪。
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
纵有惊世之才,若无所敬畏,亦不足道也。
她主诉自己情绪低落、疲劳且身体不适。
She complained of depression, fatigue and malaise.
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
生命如间歇泉般喷薄而出,只为那些勇于凿破惰性之岩的人。
五个月后,这项禁律被废除。
The prohibitive legislation was repealed five months later.
这片海岸的悬崖每年都被侵蚀掉数英尺。
The cliffs on this coast are eroding several feet a year.
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