This textbook account puts expectations at the heart of the inflation process.

I think it's hard winning a war with words.

我认为纸上谈兵没什么作用.

To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

别让你和坟墓被世界吞吃到一无所有.

She, however, had only their life together, and when that fell apart she had nothing.

然而她只有他们的共同生活, 如果这个落空,她就一无所有了.

They had so little, she thought. It was so sad to be ragged and poor.

啊,她们可以说一无所有, 她想, 缺衣少钱是多么凄惨.

He owned nothing but the clothes on his back.

他除了身上的衣服一无所有.

Nothing but this narrow, little flat.

除了这套窄小的公寓之外, 她一无所有.

Many had lost all in the disaster and were destitute.

很多人被灾难夺去了一切，变得一无所有。

His footsteps echoed ( in the empty hall ).

他的脚步声 ( 在空荡荡的大堂里 ) 产生了回声.

The empty court is locked up.

空荡荡的法庭上了锁.

I took my seat in a third-class carriage of a deserted train.

我在一列空荡荡的火车的三等车厢找了个座位.

To my overwhelming surprise the living-room was deserted.

使我大为惊异的是起居室里空荡荡的.

The theatre is empty after the show.

演出结束后,剧场里空荡荡的.

The room was bare and empty.

房间空荡荡的。

Miss Julia is the youngest and the best of the three sisters, in my opinion.

裘丽亚小姐是三姐妹里头最年轻的, 照我看来,也是最漂亮的一位.

He got in all the details, and that is a good thing in a local item.

他把一切详情细节全都写进去了, 在一段地方新闻里头,这也的确是个优点.

Scott thought it was a secret treasure; Holly thought a ghost lived inside.

司各持以为是个密藏的珍宝, 荷里以为里头住了个精灵.

He glanced at me as I came in, then went back to his observation.

石洞挺大,里头热腾腾的, 有锅碗盆罐,有床铺.

He rolled his trousers up t make a pillow, putting the newspaper inside them.

他把长裤卷起来当枕头, 把那张报纸塞在里头.

You can count me out.

你们别把我算在里头.

I seem confident, but underneath it all I'm terribly nervous.

我表面上充满自信, 但骨子里头紧张极了.