解释题Vague hope, rather than real confidence, was the note of the conference.
解释题Let us remember that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
解释题It reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.
解释题Where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven.
解释题Her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible.
解释题The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretence of blandness gone.
解释题The house detective’s piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled face.
解释题They are inept, shiftless, slovenly, messy.
解释题Logic is far from being a dry, pedantic discipline.
解释题She looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, dressed any old how.
解释题On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly.
解释题People with brown skins are next door to invisible.
解释题If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
解释题Nurses walked by carrying nickel-plated instruments, the very sight of which would send shivers down the spine of any healthy visitor.
解释题I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had nothing to do with anything a Nippon railways official might say.
解释题A pay check is not enough to base one’s self-respect on.
解释题She washed us in a river of make-believe.
解释题To them the House of Commons is a remote squabbling-shop.
解释题Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
解释题Oblivious of the fragility of the earth’s natural systems, human beings will be punished.