小镇

Mr Crossett lives in a very old town which is surrounded by beautiful woods.

克罗赛特先生住在一个十分古老的小镇上，这个小镇的四周有一片秀丽的树林。（语序未变，"被"未译出

CUSHING is a small town and a trading hub in Oklahoma, home to about 8,400 people and a latticework of oil pipelines.

促生是一个小镇，同时它也是俄州的贸易中心，8400个居民的家，石油管道的一个出口。

In another small town, they organized a dancing school, but they knew little about dancing and soon the people forced them to leave the town.

在另一个小镇，他们办了个跳舞学校，可他们对跳舞几乎一窍不通，不久就被人们赶出了镇子。

There was a little one-horse town about three mile down the bend, and after dinner the duke said he had ciphered out his idea about how to run in daylight without it being dangersome for Jim; so he allowed he would go down to the town and fix that thing.

离河湾下游三英里路，有一处巴掌大的小镇。吃过饭后，公爵说，他已经琢磨出了一个主意，能叫木筏子在白天行驶，又不致叫杰姆遭到危险。他说他要到那个镇子去亲自安排一切。

A few days later, he winged back into town and treated the dark-haired looker to an extended date.

几天后，他回到这个小镇并招待了这个黑头发的旁观者一个延长的约会。

Almost every year, the number of people to populate a to wn, decamp to what seems like another country, to live like some ancient civilisation for one weekend of the year.

几乎每年，都会有大量人群离开自己住的地方拥入一个小镇，仿佛建立了自己的国家一般，以原始人的方式度过一个周末。

What is going on across this nation, in the form of sexual perversion, is no longer taking place in 'shady dens of iniquity somewhere on the outskirts of town', between men and women.

这是怎么在这个国家，在形式的性变态，不再是发生在'可疑窝点的不公正某处郊外的小镇'，男子和妇女之间。

The powerful storm is threatening to devastate coastal towns and batter America's fourth largest city.

这股强劲的风暴可能会毁坏沿海的小镇，袭击美国第四大的城市。

Without science fiction to dissatisfy me with the world in which I lived, to make me long for something different and better, and to make me believe that it was possible to reach a different kind of life, that a different kind of life even existed, the chances are very good that I would have spent the rest of my life in that small New England town, as almost everyone else I grew up with did, working in the factory or in some other blue collar job.

科幻小说使我对现实世界产生不满，使我渴望别样事物，更好的事物，并且使我相信，我能够过上另一种生活，确确实实存在着另一种生活。假如没有这些，我极有可能和大多数儿时同伴一样，一辈子呆在那个新英格兰小镇，在厂里找一份活，或者作些其他蓝领工作。

Protracted drought has brought what has been described as a 'biblical' camel plague into the Docker River township, leaving residents cowering in their homes.

长期乾旱引起的这场骆驼灾难，使道克河小镇有如人间地狱，当地居民躲在家中胆颤心惊。

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。