小词详解 | flounder
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.
那么为什么要挣扎着等待好生意的到来呢?应改善管理以降低成本,降低价格以匹配购买力。
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.
那么为什么要挣扎着等待好生意的到来呢?应改善管理以降低成本,降低价格以匹配购买力。
当今世界通用的公历起源于古罗马历法。古罗马历法原来只有十个月,后来罗马皇帝增加了两个月,并将这两个月放在年初,成为一月和二月。
The pictures, with their ruddy light,
Are changed to dust and ashes white,
And I am left alone with night.
这些照片带着红润的光线,
泛成尘土和炉灰的白色,
留下我孑然一人与黑夜。
因此, steward 的地位不断提高,相当于“账房先生”和“管家”。甚至在一些场合, steward 成了一种地方官员的头衔。
Lame execution will stymie a good strategy.
执行不力会阻碍一个好策略。
seesaw 与 teeter-totter 这两个词都指“跷跷板”。从构词法来看,两者都是重迭词,都由两个押头韵的词组合而成,只是前者比后者要通用得多。
Far from paving the way for a halcyon future of prosperity and stability, the digital era promises to usher in as profound a political and social transformation as that wrought by the arrival of the industrial age.
数字时代远没有为繁荣与稳定的美好未来铺平道路,而是有望开创如同工业时代到来所带来的那般深刻的政治和社会变革。
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
人生往往由许多平凡决定累积而成,而这常常为人忽视。
在13世纪的伦敦,有一个名叫 stock market 的菜市场。之所以叫这个名字,是因为这个菜市场的原址是个装有 stock 的刑场。
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
有时,与沉默相比,信口开河的谈话更缺乏沟通性。
英语单词 symposium 就来源于此,由其本意延伸出“讨论会、论文集”的含义。
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
充满行动和危险的生活将减缓对死亡的恐惧。它不仅赋予我们承受痛苦的刚毅,而且时刻引导我们把握飘忽不定的现在。
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