He hadn't seemed much of a conversa-tionalist.

She oiled her words in order to sound persuasive.

她使用花言巧语使话有说服力.

She'd heard he was a musician and blagged a tape off a friend of his.

她听说他是个音乐家，就花言巧语从他朋友那里要了一盘带子。

Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?

谁能断定这样的事情,从来就不曾稀松平常?

If the House of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected.

如果国会大厦不曾在1834年烧毁, 这只大钟决不会建立起来.

The drug failed to act.

这药不曾生效.

He has never been here.

他不曾来过.

His roots and mine bad become too firmly embedded in the new land.

因为他与我一样已经把根深深地扎在异国的土地上.

The foreigner felt desolate in the strange country.

外国人住在异国感到孤寂.

In reality, I lay far away, in a foreign land.

事实上, 我是置身在遥远的异国土地上.

In his time this proposal was hardly more than a brilliant guess.

在他那个时代,这种提法并不比一种杰出的猜想好多少.

But he was no more successful than Hugh.

但是他并不比休经营得好.

The computer weighs 10 pounds and is no bigger than a dictionary.

这台计算机重10磅,并不比一部词典大.

Television is different from radio in that It'sends and receives pictures.

电视与无线电不同,电视能播送和接收图像.

They produce news which is sent by satellite worldwide.

他们播送的新闻通过卫星发送到世界各地.

The news will be transmitted by radio.

这消息将由电台播送.

You will be forced if it reaches that point.

如果到那一地步,你们就被动了.

" We're not training kids to work any more,'says Klompus.

克劳普斯说,看电视导致了孩子们的消极被动.

Passive smoking can be hazardous to health.

被动吸烟会有害健康。

Passive smoking can be deadly too.

被动吸烟也可能会致命。

The old man sounded really down.

老人听上去情绪十分低落。