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1. A small boy was beating out a tune on a tin can.
一个小男孩正用铁皮罐敲奏出曲子来。
2. On hearing the soft footsteps outside her room, she was seized with panic.
一听到门外有轻轻的脚步声，她惊慌失措。
3. After a day at the races I was left stony broke.
一天赛马会下来，我一贫如洗。
4. From the outset it was clear that be was guilty.
一开始就已清楚，他是有罪的。
5. A creeper was entwined round the pillar.
一根攀缘植物缠绕在柱子上。
6. The wind was whispering in the trees.
一阵风穿过树林沙沙作响。
7. Somehow he was irritated by the smoothness of the salesman.
不知为什麽这个推销员的圆滑使他恼怒。
8. He was known to be a young man with lofty ideals.
人们都知道他是一个有抱负的青年。
9. The sea was choppy today because of the windstorm.
今天起了风暴，海上波涛汹涌。
10. He was disobedient to his mother.
他不听他母亲的话。
11. He was unaware that she was such a good pianist.
他不知道她是如此好的钢琴演奏者。
12. He fell down the stairs and was all black and blue.
他从楼梯跌下而青一块紫一块了。
13. He was compulsorily retired as incompetent.
他以无能为由而被迫退休。
14. He was in black from crew to earing.
他全身上下都穿着黑衣服。
15. He was born in the palmy days of peace.
他出生于和平的兴盛时期。
16. He was hostile to any change in our plan.
他反对我们计划中的任何改变。
17. He was fretting with impatience.
他因不耐烦而烦躁不安。
18. He was had up for dangerous driving.
他因危险驾驶而被控告。
19. He was sharply reprimanded for his negligence.
他因玩忽职责而受到严厉的申斥。
20. He was captured trying to escape from the country.
他在企图逃离这个国家时被捕获。
21. He gave in when he was threatened with torture.
他在受到严刑威胁时投降了。
22. In dealing with the problem he was cautious to an extreme.
他在处理这个问题时谨慎得过分了。
23. He claimed that the newspaper report was a libel.
他声称报纸上的报导是一种诽谤。
24. He was enthusing about his new pocket cassette recorder.
他对自己的新袖珍录音机爱不释手。
25. He was dismayed at his lack of understanding.
他对自已的无知感到沮丧。
26. He worked very fast, insomuch that he was through in an hour.
他工作得很快，一小时内便做完了。
27. Nothing was left for him to hang on to.
他已经没有什么东西可以指靠的了。
28. He was not a man to sit down with affront.
他并不是一个可以忍受当众侮辱的人。
29. He was elected chairman of the education committee.
他当选为教育委员会主任委员。
30. He agreed that he was wrong with a good grace.
他很大方地承认自己错了。
31. He was given a job commensurate with his abilities.
他得到一份与他能力相称的工作。
32. He was anxious to show himself patriot.
他急于表明自己是个爱国者。
33. He was the tough guy, the big shot, who gave orders with the crack of a whip.
他是个威风凛凛发号施令的强悍的家伙，是个大人物。
34. He was a dishonor to his regiment.
他是那个团的耻辱。
35. He was consuming his final libation.
他正在喝着他的最后一杯酒。
36. He was giving the pictures a few finishing touches.
他正在给他的画作最后的修饰。
37. He was fawning on a damsel with soft words.
他正用甜言蜜语向一位女郞献殷勤。
38. He was now in the measures of Lewis XIV.
他此刻正与路易十四共商大计。
39. He was destined to plod the path of toil.
他注定要在艰辛的道路上跋涉。
40. He was so ill that two nurses attended on him.
他病得那样重，有两个护士照顾他。
41. His son was indentured to the local blacksmith.
他的儿子拜当地的铁匠为师签订了师徒合同。
42. His wife was a constant inspiration to him.
他的妻子经常鼓励他。
43. His disease was complicated by pneumonia.
他的病因肺炎并发症而变得更严重。
44. His illness was more serious than the doctor first thought.
他的病较医生原来以为的更严重。
45. His guilt was proved up to the hilt.
他的罪行被完全证实了。
46. His Achilles' heel was his pride.
他的致命伤就是骄傲自大。
47. His honesty was called into question.
他的诚实受到了怀疑。
48. His talk was evocative of the bygone days.
他的谈话令人回忆起往昔的时日。
49. His modesty [air of joviality] was all put on.
他的谦逊[愉快的样子]都是装出来的。
50. He glimpsed at my new watch and said it was a good bargain.
他看了一眼我的新表，说买得很上算。
51. He was led astray by a hooligan.
他被一个流氓引上了邪路。
52. He was trapped in a burning house.
他被困在正在燃烧的房屋里。
53. He was expelled from the school.
他被学校开除了。
54. He left his job largely because he was homesick.
他辞职不干主要是因为他想家。
55. I was paging through a magazine when he came in.
他进来时我在翻阅一本杂志。
56. It was unfair that Ivan answered for my mischief.
伊凡为我的胡闹去受惩罚是不公平的。
57. It was dishonest of you not to say so.
你没有这样说是不诚实的。
58. It was very thoughtless of you to keep her waiting so long.
你让她等那么久也太不体谅人了。
59. It was tasteless of you to say that.
你说那种话真是庸俗。
60. The army was demoralized by defeat.
军队因战败而士气消沉。
61. The doctor was very thorough in his examination of the sick child.
医生对生病的孩子进行了仔细的检查。
62. It was hard work getting the children off to bed.
哄孩子们去睡可不是容易的事。
63. Donald was smarting under an injustice.
唐纳德因受冤屈感到极为痛苦。
64. The king was burned in effigy by the angry mob.
国王的模拟像被愤怒的民众烧掉以泄心中的愤恨。
65. The king was shorn of his power by his nobles.
国王被手下的贵族们剥夺了权力。
66. The crown of St Wenceslas was in prague cathedral.
圣文萨斯雷的皇冠保存在布拉格大教堂。
67. The ground was covered with ferns.
地面上长满了羊齿植物。
68. The kettle was boiling away merrily on the fire.
壶水烧开了咕嘟咕嘟地滚泡。
69. The astronaut accepted danger was part of the job.
太空人承认他们的工作中包含著危险。
70. The queen was gracious enough to invite us.
女王亲切地邀请了我们。
71. She was sick at the sight of the blood.
她一见到血就感到恶心。
72. She was like a narcissus trembling in the wind.
她像一株在风中摇动的水仙。
73. She was in league with her mother to embarrass me.
她和她母亲联合起来叫我下不了台。
74. Her speech in Parliament was falsified by the newspapers.
她在议会里的发言被报纸歪曲了。
75. She didn't attend to what I was saying.
她对我所说的话未加注意。
76. She led him into believing that she was unmarried.
她巧妙地使他相信她仍小姑独处。
77. She dolled herself up as though she was a girl of eighteen.
她打扮得花枝招展，好像是个十八岁的姑娘似的。
78. She was trying hard to disgorge a fish bone.
她拚命想把鱼刺吐出来。
79. She was one of the rather clever girls I met.
她是我所看见的相当聪明的女孩中的一个。
80. She was on the verge of telling all the secret.
她正想把全部的秘密讲给我听。
