查询词典 twenty-eight

When the letter was written, Beckett was twenty-four, in the first stirrings of his creative prose, and about to plunge into "Dream of Fair to Middling Women," the headlong novel that he completed the following year.

写这封信的时候，贝克特二十四岁，初涉文坛，往文学的大海中投出了自己第一颗石子《平庸女人的美梦》，这部小说他在1932年完成。

The irreversible was to become a fait accompli in a little more than twenty hours.

这个不可逆转的事实，只需二十多个小时，就要变成现实。

Twenty-five years ago, the charms of the Patent Medicine fakir and the incantations of the Indian Medicine Man were in the heyday of their popularity.

25年前，托钵僧独门药物的符咒和印度神医的咒语在民间颇受欢迎。

Claims for a twenty percent salary increase are likely to fall on deaf ears .

增加20％工资的要求极有可能等于白说。

Claims for a twenty per cent salary increase are likely to fall on deaf ears.

增加工资20％的要求可能会被置之不理。

Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.

023 肥牛十只，草场的牛二十只，羊一百只，还有鹿、羚羊麍子，并肥禽。

When he was twenty-one he read about Michael Faraday's experiments in electricity.

二十一岁时，他读到迈克尔·法拉第在电学方面进行的实验。

Farinelli sang at Bologna in 1727. There he met and acknowledged himself vanquished by the singer Antonio Bernacchi (twenty years Farinelli's senior), to whose instruction in finer points of technique he was much indebted.

Farinelli於1717年在义大利的Bologna演唱，在那里他结识了强过他的歌者Antonio Bernacchi（年长Farinelli二十一岁），受到Antonio技巧上较精微之处的指导下受益良多。

Having sung before the King, on 25 August 1737 Farinelli was named "Chamber musician to their Majesties, quitting the public stage"— indeed he never sang again in public, but his trip to Spain lasted twenty-two years.

皇后相信Farinelli的声音可能治疗她先生菲力普五世长期痛苦的严重抑郁症，该症已严重损及国政，在1737年8月25日於国王面前献唱后，Farinelli被命为陛下的宫内音乐师，同时退出公开舞台－真的他从此不在公开场所演唱，但他的这一趟西班牙之旅长达了22年之久。

From the farmer-general of seventy, whose riches could not buy his life, to the seamstress of twenty, whose poverty and obscurity could not save her.

前者的全部财富买不回他的命，后者的贫穷与低贱也救不了她的命。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。