饱受

Since the 16th century was apparently every bit as afflicted by longwinded balderdash as ours,"bombast" almost immediately acquired the figurative meaning of "fancy or pretentious language on a trivial subject," and we've been inundated by verbal "bombast" ever since.

如同今天我们遇到的，自从16世纪的人们也饱受那些冗长的胡言乱语折磨以后，bombast几乎立刻就用来比喻那些本来微不足道却又被花言巧语一番的样子。自那以后，现代人就被淹没在bombast的洪流中了。

Tol Barad is a ravaged island kingdom between Hasic and the shores of Khaz Modan.

托尔巴拉德是一个位于哈斯克和卡兹莫丹之间的，饱受战争创伤的岛国。

On 6 June 1944 – better known as D-Day – some 45,000 Allied troops landed on beaches near Bayeux, heralding the beginning of the Battle of Normandy (p298), the decisive campaign that led to the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe.

在1944 年6月6 日，45，000多名联盟军在Bayeux附近的海滩登陆，揭开了诺曼底战争的序幕(p298)，这个日子就是后来为人们所熟知的D-Day。这次决定性的战役导致了欧洲的解放，德国纳粹曾让那里的人们饱受折磨。

In the 20th century, the world has been besieged by wars and conflicts.

在二十世纪里，世界饱受各种战争和冲突的苦难。

FOR ITS SIZE, Britain contains an unusual variety of geological and climatic conditions that have shaped diverse landscapes, from treeless windswept moorland to boggy marshes and small hedged cattle pastures.

从国家的国土面积看，英国不寻常地拥有各种地理和气候条件。这些自然条件塑造了多种多样的地形：从没有树木，饱受风袭的荒原到四处潮软的沼泽滩和圈养牛群的草原。

In America, democracy must run a gauntlet of challenges. The most crucial is still Du Bois '' color line.

在美国，民主必须饱受艰难挑战，其中最重大的挑战就是杜波依斯所说的肤色界限问题。

Then the plows went in and ripped off the protection of the buffalo grass and opened the helpless soil to quick water and slow drought and the mischievous wind that roamed through the Great Central Plains. There has always been more than enough desert in America ; the new settlers, like overindulged children, created even more.

其后的耕犁又强行剥去了美洲野牛草皮对土壤的保护，暴露的土壤饱受湍急的水流、缓漫的干旱和横扫美洲中央大平原的狂风的无情肆虐，在美国，沙漠已经多的不能再多了，而新的定居者们就象被宠坏了孩子们，又创造了更多的沙漠。

Mr Obama uses wretched backdrops for his bully pulpit. On February 9th he visited Elkhart, a town racked by job losses since the local recreational-vehicle factories started cutting back.

奥巴马专门选萧条的地方作其唬人的讲话。2月9号，他访问了埃尔德哈特，一个因当地的房车工厂裁员而饱受失业之苦的城镇。

But by the 1980s white parents and conservative jurists had turned against controversial programmes such as the bussing of students to distant schools.

但是在1980年代，白人家长们和保守法理学家们否决了一些饱受争议的计划，其中一项就是让孩子们坐公交车到更远的学校就读。

As the first Australian star to take home a best actress gong, it seems she's been rewarded for 16heeding Jane Campion's early advice.

维吉妮亚本人，也在饱受精神疾病之苦下，完成一部又一部精采的作品，奠定她成为二十世纪最卓越且具创新能力的意识流小说家。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了