本来的

I was going to warn you about your roommates.

我本来要劝你小心你的室友。

Business of climbing properly, you will be breathing like a water buffalo

这段的意思是说，本来爬坡就是会气喘如牛，汗流浃背，口水下流。。。

Because of the existence of natural hydrological cycle, water is considered a recyclables natural resource.

由于地球水循环的存在，水本来可以被认作是一种可再生资源。

It should be a water meter calibration problem.

本来应该算是水表校表的问题。

Someone called me to sour a deal that was supposedly water-tight.

就在这时候，有人拨电话给我，告知本来已经成交的交易泡汤了。

Ablbeit, this is more risky, but also more interesting and insightful than the watered-down version.

虽然这种回答比较冒险，但比起那些老套版本来则更容易引起别人的兴趣，也明智得多。

You neednt have watered the flowers, for it is going to rain.

你本来不必浇花的，因为天要下雨了。

E.g. You needn't have watered the flowers,for it is going to rain.

你本来不必浇花的，因为天要下雨了。

We were to have told you, but you wee not in.

我们本来要通知你的，但你不在家。

His wife had wanted to whitewash his reputation after he died.

他妻子在他死后本来想粉饰他的名声。

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。