The only higher is the appalling rate of failure.

After the fire, the house was a terrible sight.

大火之后房子简直惨不忍睹.

Life never stands still : if you don't advance you recede.

生命不息,不进则退.

But when we saw the plastic bags top of the trees, we felt rather disappointed.

但再看看山上树枝上挂着的塑料袋真是大煞风景.

Cruelly she said it would be no fun if I accompanied her.

她狠心地说,如果我在一旁陪着她,那将大煞风景.

Everything turned out lousy for him sooner or later.

他的事情迟早会大煞风景.

It might have seemed that this revelation would have marked a drop.

那么现在的说明照理会大煞风景.

A team which is too eager to win often loses the game.

求胜心盛的球队往往会输掉比赛.

They are drummed so often into me that I could recite them backward.

我强迫自己不断地听这些东西,现在我可以倒背如流了.

You've read that book so many times you must know it backwards by now!

那本书你读了很多遍,现在一定能倒背如流了!

The three-year-old boy knows this poem backwards.

这个3 岁 男孩对这首诗倒背如流.

He can run off many classics from memory.

他能把许多古典作品倒背如流.

The girl rattled off her lessons.

那女孩倒背如流地朗诵功课.

A muffled cat catches no mice.

四体不勤,一事无成.

A maze of narrow alleys leads down to the sea.

迂回曲折的小径通往海边.

I entered the village by the little roundabout lane.

我由一条迂回曲折的小径进了村.

In the May Fourth Movement, enlighted young people carried the burden of saving the country.

五四时期, 进步青年担当起了救亡图存的重任.

In his mind a voice cried, Now is the time of testing.

他脑海中有个声音在大喊, 现在正是一决雌雄的时候了.

There's Bound to Be a showdown Between these two rivals.

这两个对手最后肯定要一决雌雄.

I think it's a load of bull.

我认为那是胡说八道。

He's talking rubbish.

他胡说八道。