查询词典 in thrall to

He regards the witches as beings "that palter to us with a double sense", apparently quite aware that they are "servile ministers", in thrall to the force of evil and can mean no good.

他把巫婆看作"使用双重意义的话来对我们含糊其辞"的人，显然知道她们是"奴臣"，受役于邪神力量，不会是好东西。

By great filmmakers in thrall to their own passions, rather than to

这是一个几乎消失了的时代的伟大重现，制作者们完全按照他们自己的激情

Britain was not just in thrall to the cost of its victory, but it seemed somehow frozen in time.

英国不仅被她胜利的成本所束缚，也似乎不知何故地在时间里被冻结了。

In fact, I've spent the last eight years, virtually without pause, in thrall to my own dreams and aspirations.

对于这8年光阴，至今我都不曾感到后悔，虽然我只获得了一点点成功，但是我却感到了一种无与伦比的满足感。

He argues that the refusal of powerful institutions to admit losses aided and abetted by a government in thrall to the "money-changers" may make it impossible to escape from the crisis.

他认为，在一个惟金融家马首是瞻的政府的助长和教唆下，那些强大的机构拒绝承认亏损，这可能使我们不可能摆脱这场危机。

Mr Sarkozy sees a chance to show he is a man of action, and he will find it easier to force through domestic reform if he can show he is not in thrall to all that Anglo-Saxon free-market ideology.

萨科齐先生想借此机会来显示下他是个实干家，而且如果能显示出他不屈服于盎格鲁-撒克逊人的自由市场意识形态，他国内的改革必将会推进的更容易些。

AS RECENTLY as six years ago, while investors were still in thrall to a dotcom bubble that had yet to burst, steel was derided as one of the last bastions of the "old" economy.

就在距今不远的六年前，投资者们浸泡在网络泡沫繁荣的喜悦中，人们曾嘲讽地把钢铁业称作—&旧经济时代的最后堡垒之一&。

There is no sure defence against bad ideas, but one place to start is with a well-educated and sceptical citizenry that is free to listen to the notions of the intellectuals but is not in thrall to them—and, yes, may prefer the sports channel instead.

对于恶劣的思想并没有良方可以抵御，但是首先我们需要的是一个经过良好教育并且具有怀疑精神的公民群体，他们可以自由地听知识分子发表各种各样的言论，但是绝对不会因被这些言论所束缚---他们大可以去看体育频道。

There is no sure defence against bad ideas, but one place to start is with a well-educated and sceptical citizenry that is free to listen to the notions of the intellectuals but is not in thrall to them—and, yes, may prefer the sports channel instead.

有害思想防不胜防，重要的是要拥有一群接受良好教育且坚持怀疑精神的民众，他们可以自由聆听不同的声音而又不被它们束缚，并且也许能对体育频道有所偏爱。

There is no sure defence against bad ideas, but one place to start is with a well-educated and sceptical citizenry that is free to listen to the notions of the intellectuals but is not in thrall to them—and, yes, may prefer the sports channel instead.

对于坏思想我们没有明确有抵制方法。但至少应该从如下开始：全社会有着受过良好教育，具有思辨精神的公民，他们可以自由的听取知识分子的各种理念，但又不会受到这些理念的束缚-虽然，他们往往喜欢体育频道。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷