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一个人的空间 | |
Those who wish to sing always find a song. — Swedish proverb | |
If you have ever gone through a toll booth, you know that your relationship to the person in the booth is not the most intimate you’ll ever have. It is one of life’s frequent non-encounters: You hand over some money; you might get change; you drive off. I have been through every one of the 17 toll booths on the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge on thousands of occasions, and never had an exchange worth remembering with anybody. |
如果你仔细观察一个收费亭,你就会知道你与亭子里的这个人关系不是最亲密的,这是生命中常常出现的非偶遇者。你递给他一些钱,或许他还要找你些零钱,然后你开车走了。我仔细观察过17家收费亭,并在奥克兰-旧金山海湾大桥千百次路过,却没有一次找钱值得我记起某个人。 |
相关单词:toll
toll解释:n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
toll例句:
The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
相关单词:pointed
pointed解释:adj.尖的,直截了当的
pointed例句:
He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
相关单词:coffins
coffins解释:n.棺材( coffin的名词复数 );使某人早亡[死,完蛋,垮台等]之物
coffins例句:
The shop was close and hot, and the atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins. 店堂里相当闷热,空气仿佛被棺木的味儿污染了。 来自辞典例句
Donate some coffins to the temple, equal to the number of deaths. 到寺庙里,捐赠棺材盒给这些死者吧。 来自电影对白
相关单词:mythology
mythology解释:n.神话,神话学,神话集
mythology例句:
In Greek mythology,Zeus was the ruler of Gods and men.在希腊神话中,宙斯是众神和人类的统治者。
He is the hero of Greek mythology.他是希腊民间传说中的英雄。
相关单词:precisely
precisely解释:adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
precisely例句:
It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
相关单词:boredom
boredom解释:n.厌烦,厌倦,乏味,无聊
boredom例句:
Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.失业会让你无聊得发疯。
A walkman can relieve the boredom of running.跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。
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