"We do tune our guitars before we go on," he insisted.

Chris had insisted that we went separately to the club.

克里斯坚持我们不要一块儿去俱乐部。

I insisted that we should have a look at every car.

我坚持我们每辆车都应该看一下。

The owner insisted on Cool Ground running in the Gold Cup.

主人坚持要让“酷地”参加金杯赛马会。

He insisted that there could be no linkage with other Mideast problems.

他坚持主张不把它与其他中东问题挂钩。

People tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted.

大家都劝他放弃，可他却很坚持。

They sandbagged their homes to keep out floods.

他们在房屋周围堆沙袋以抵御洪水的侵袭。

Single-parent homes are commonplace.

单亲家庭很普遍。

Electricity lines to 30,000 homes were gradually being restored yesterday.

昨天，3万户家庭逐渐恢复了供电。

People were stringing up decorations on the fronts of their homes.

人们正在各家门口挂起装饰物。

Their turf was Paris: its streets, theaters, homes, and parks.

巴黎是他们的地盘：那里熟悉的大街、剧院、住宅和公园。

About 90 percent of the city's single-family homes are uninhabitable.

该市约90％的独户住宅都不适合居住。

Jim gardened at the homes of friends on weekends.

吉姆周末帮忙打理朋友家的花园。

1.4 million council homes have been sold, mostly to sitting tenants.

已经出售了140万套廉租公房，大部分购买者都是房子的承租人。

Builders must fasten down roofs of newly-built homes more securely.

建造工人必须把新建房屋的屋顶固定得更牢靠些。

The President denounced the press for engaging in "sleaze" and called the story a lie.

总统谴责媒体参与了肮脏交易，称该报道是谎言。

I was touched to find that he regards me as engaging.

他认为我很迷人，这真令我感动。

He had been engaging in some kind of kinky sexual activity.

他一直在进行一些变态的性活动。

The way a good investor does really well is by engaging in successful futurology.

优秀的投资者之所以能够成功是因为他们可以很好地预测未来。

When engaging the enemy, we often have to face the choice between life and death.

在和敌人战斗时, 我们常常面临生死的考验.

They are engaging in an embryo research.

他们正在进行一项胚胎研究.