The seamstress tacked the two pieces of cloth.

She sewed two pieces of cloth together.

她把两块布缝在一起.

She tried to join the two pieces together.

她设法把两块拼在一起.

He sent her two pieces of olives in letter.

他在信中给她夹了两片橄榄树的叶子.

He joined up the two pieces of wood together with nails.

他用钉子把两块木头接起来.

Pay increases have sunk to around seven per cent.

工资增长率已降至7％左右。

Technophobia increases with age.

随着年龄的增长，技术恐惧感愈加强烈。

Tension in the home increases if you bottle things up.

你如果把事情强压在心里，家里的气氛就会更趋紧张。

Lithuanians are waking up to a world of increasing shortages.

立陶宛人开始意识到物资日益匮乏。

Supplies are under increasing threat from overuse and pollution.

由于滥用和污染，供应正受到日益严重的威胁。

The number of under-sixteens in low-paid jobs is increasing.

16岁以下从事低收入工作的人数正在增加。

From the audience came increasing sounds of restlessness.

观众不满的呼声越来越高。

The usual punishment for runaways was an extension of the contract period.

对逃跑者的惩罚通常是延长契约期.

Pam had never learned that there were men who preyed on young runaways.

帕姆从来不知道有人专门坑骗离家出走的年轻人。

Criminals troll bus stations for young runaways.

罪犯们在汽车站搜索年轻的逃跑者.

They failed to find any trace of the runaways.

他们未能找到逃跑者的任何踪迹.

And it will be determined more by economies'performances than by grand intellectual redesigns.

而且这种平衡关系更多地取决于经济状况好坏而不是宏大的经济意识架构重整.

The redesigns were part of a move to beat conuterfeiting which totalled ＄180 million last year.

此次重新设计钞票乃是打击伪造货币行动的一部分,伪币去年总额达1.8亿美元.

The tycoons naturally tend to survive the men they hire and fire.

巨头们比他们今天雇用明日踢出的人势必要活得长些,这是很自然的事了.

And now that a few tycoons have planes, others want them.

少数企业大亨拥有私人飞机的现状刺激了其他人的购买欲望.

The great tycoons were fierce competitors, single-minded in their pursuit of financial success and power.

企业巨头都是激烈的竞争者, 他们一心追求钱财和权势.