留职停薪
Since 1813 reaction to Jane Austen's novels has oscillated between ______ and condescension; but in general later writers have esteemed her works more highly than did most of her literary contemporaries.
bungee jumping
《三国演义》
strawberry generation
the only child
GPS
Language belongs to each member of the society, to the cleaner ______ to the professor.
nationalization
A static technocratic order, by contrast, requires a very different sort of personality: a drone who does what he is told and shuns novelty, someone who avoids facing, or ______ challenges.
dubbing
Perhaps we should think in terms of raising interest rates ______ them, in consideration of the new reports about inflation reported last June.
Roy, who was supposed to on a diet, kept making ______ trips to the kitchen to nibbleon this and that, whenever he thought no one would notice.
Still water run deep
中国结
I went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when I ______ the journey in exactly two days.
Sons of high-ranking females may remain at the center of the troop while others are driven to the ______.
体制创新
The introduction of gunpowder gradually made the bow and arrow ______, particularly in Western Europe.
He was fired because of his ______ refusal to follow orders.