You may be a sceptic and put it down to life's inequalities.

He got his coffee, came back and settled down to listen.

他喝了杯咖啡，回来后开始认真听讲。

A short time later they sat down to eat.

过了一小会儿，他们坐下来吃东西。

I'lltry to get on the flight down to Karachi tonight.

我尽量赶上今晚去卡拉奇的航班。

The once-powerful post unions have been cut down to size.

一度很强势的邮政联盟已经威风不再。

The two lovers are living in a kind of dreamworld; but they'll come down to earth.

这两个情况生活在一种梦幻世界中; 但他们终要回到现实中来.

So his father always asks him to come down to earth and study hard.

所以他爸爸总是叫他回到现实,努力学习.

Upon starting work, I gradually became more down to earth, and so daydream less and less.

到了工作时期, 渐渐地变得比较脚踏实地, 编梦的次数也少了.

After the euphoria of yesterday's celebrations, the country will come down to earth today.

经过昨天热烈的庆祝之后，这个国家今天将会回到现实中来。

The two horses were neck and neck all the way down to the wire.

一直到终点两匹马都并驾齐驱,互不相让.

It was a neck and neck horse race right down to the wire.

这次跑马赛从头到尾都胜败难分.

This project will go down to the wire.

(这个计画将到最后的阶段. )

Play-off games always seem to go down to the wire.

加时赛看起来双方比分总是咬得很紧.

Negotiators again worked right down to the wire to reach an agreement.

谈判人员又是直到最后时刻才达成了协议。

We can't go to a restaurant tonight – we're really down to the wire.

今晚我们不能去饭馆吃饭了——我们几乎身无分文了.

As soon as the clock strikes five, they down tools and off they go.

钟一敲五点, 他们就撂下工作走人.

" Why don't you stay down town and go to the theatre with me? "

“ 你留在市中心和我一起去看戏,好 吗 ?

There is a new free standing restaurant near the down town area.

在市中心区附近有座新的独立餐馆.

To-morrow he would go into the roaring down-town district and find work.

明天,他要去繁华的商业区找事干.

" I guess I'll be going down town, " he remarked, rising.

“ 我想,我该去市里了. ” 他说着站起身来.

I think we'll settle a little farther down town when we come back. "

我想等回来的时候,我们住到靠市区近一点的地方去.