This chapter is mostly rhetoric and lacks substance.

The narrator suddenly adopts an elevated and rhetorically heightened tone.

解说员突然采用了一种高亢且修辞性增强的语调。

Certainly not me. That was merely a figure of speech.

当然不是我，那只是种修辞说法。

Global advertising sector revenues battered this year as clients have cut spending during the downturn.

客户在经济下降期削减开支,令今年全球广告业收入遭到了重挫.

Fell far on the contract, stock index futures simulation trading again early warning signals?

远月合约重挫, 股指期货仿真交易再现预警信号?

High-tech stocks plummeted across the board today.

高科技股今天全面重挫.

Maybe they are exhausted from staying up night after night.

也许他们是太累了，由于成宿成宿地熬夜。

I stopped up to watch the match.

我熬夜观看比赛.

I often stay up late watching movies with my mom.

我经常和妈妈一起熬夜看电影。

She knew how to sweet-talk Pamela into letting her stay up late every weekend.

她总是知道如何哄得帕梅拉同意她每个周末都熬夜。

Burning the midnight oil now and then meant absolutely nothing to them.

他们时不时熬夜工作，但这对他们来说毫无意义。

Maybe I stayed up too late and that's why I feel dozy.

也许我熬夜太晚了，所以感到昏昏欲睡。

You need to get up early or put in extra effort to stay up late.

你需要早起或付出额外的努力来熬夜。

She was a diligent reporter who frequently stayed up late covering breaking news.

她是一名勤奋的记者，经常熬夜报道突发新闻。

To pervert the course of justice is to prevent justice being done.

误用司法过程就是阻止司法的实施.

He greets me with hello in French but accidentally responds with goodbye in German, which always cracks me up.

他用法语打招呼却误用德语说了再见，这总是让我忍俊不禁。

People often misapply misused quotations from Shakespeare's works in contemporary settings.

人们经常在当代环境中误用莎士比亚作品中引文不当的情况。

The actress who plays the part of Hong Niang has a beautiful voice.

扮演红娘的演员唱得很好听.

He played cupid for us two, by arranging for us to meet at the party.

他是我们两个人的红娘, 安排我们在派对上碰面.

I keep a second pair of sandals in my office.

我在办公室里另放了一双凉鞋.

Put on your sandals to paddle through shallow streams.

穿上凉鞋，在浅溪中涉水而行。