EXAMPLE: An unfeigned fondness for people is a characteristic of many successful sales representatives.
許多成功的銷售代表都有一個特點：讓人打心眼里喜歡。

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EXAMPLE: The advertising agency had a talented wordsmith on its staff who could quickly write beautifully crafted sentences on any topic.
這家廣告機構的員工中有一位天才的語言大師，能根據任何題目迅速寫出文采斐然的語句。

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EXAMPLE: Despite his great wealth, our boss is a fuddy-duddy who never travels, buys anything new, or does anything exciting.
盡管非常富有，我的老板卻是位古板的人，從來不旅游、買任何新東西或做任何刺激的事。

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EXAMPLE: My elderly uncle is an agelast, and although I have occasionally seen him smile, I have never heard him laugh.
我的年邁的叔叔是位不茍言笑的人，盡管我偶爾看到過他微笑，但從未聽到他大笑過。

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EXAMPLE: Despite his age, my grandfather's perspicacity impressed me, and I always asked him for advice when I faced difficult challenges in my life.
盡管一把年紀，我祖父的敏銳頭腦仍然讓我吃驚，當我在生活中遇到巨大挑戰時，我總是向他尋求建議。  2014-05-04

EXAMPLE: The airplane shook as it flew through the terrible storm, and with each new flash of lightening the passengers became more jumpy.
飛機搖擺著穿過可怕的風暴，每次看到新的閃電出現，乘客們都變得越發緊張  2014-04-30

EXAMPLE: As the sun rose, we lost sight of the last evanescent stars of the night sky.
太陽升起來了，來自夜晚天空的最后尚存的幾顆星星迅速離開了我們的視野。  2014-04-29

EXAMPLE: The young man's boasts were met with derisive laughter from his skeptical friends.
這位年輕人的吹噓招來了懷疑他的朋友們的嘲諷大笑。  2014-04-28

EXAMPLE: My crestfallen younger brother who loves tennis and is very proud of his skills lost his game yesterday, and isn't talking with anyone today.
我弟弟熱愛網球，很為他的技術自豪。但昨天他輸了球，垂頭喪氣，今天不跟任何人說話。  2014-04-25

EXAMPLE: My favorite actor appears in a boffo new film everybody's talking about.
我喜愛的演員出演了人人都在談論的風靡一時的新電影。  2014-04-24

EXAMPLE: The professor's new opinions regarding education angered his traditional colleagues who considered him to be a vile apostate.
這位教授有關教育的新主張激怒了他往日的同事，他們認為他是個可恥的背叛者。  2014-04-23

EXAMPLE:
1.A boy on the street worked as a lookout for the gang of thieves, and whistled loudly whenever a police officer appeared.
一位街頭男孩給盜竊團伙站崗放哨，一有警官出現就大聲吹哨。
2.The old stone tower on the hilltop had been built as a lookout centuries ago.
山頂上的這座舊石樓在幾百年前是被當作瞭望臺而修建的。  2014-04-22

EXAMPLE: My moonstruck sister won’t stop talking about the handsome young man she met yesterday.
我那愛昏了頭的妹妹不停地談論她昨天遇到的帥哥。  2014-04-21

EXAMPLE: The juice company made many unsubstantiated claims about the benefits of drinking its product daily, including its ability to increase intelligence and prevent memory loss.
這家公司針對每日飲用其產品的好處做了很多虛假宣傳，包括它可以增強智力和防止記憶力喪失。  2014-04-18

EXAMPLE: The cynical old man’s skin-deep compliments did not encourage anyone to trust or believe him.
這個玩世不恭的老男人的膚淺恭維不會贏得任何人的信任。  2014-04-17

EXAMPLE: France is the indisputable world leader of wine production.
法國是無可爭議的葡萄酒生產領先國家。  2014-04-16

EXAMPLE: My teenage son has become so flippant in the past year that he frequently makes me angry.
去年，我的十幾歲的兒子變得十分輕浮無禮，經常惹我生氣。  2014-04-15

EXAMPLE: My sister doesn’t have much money, but she always dresses with a sense of flair, and at parties she’s often best dressed woman in the room.
我的妹妹不是太有錢，但她的穿著總是帶有時尚感，在聚會上，她經常是穿得最好看的那個女人。  2014-04-14

EXAMPLE: Our company used to be careless and waste a lot of money, but now we are trying to be more cost-effective by looking at the financial returns we get for every investment we make.
我們公司過去不精打細算，浪費了很多錢，但現在，我們關注每筆投資的回報，努力提高成本效益。  2014-04-11

EXAMPLE: The ambitious but dishonest executive thought bribes and calumny would help him gain a high position.
這位雄心勃勃但不誠實的高管以為，賄賂和誹謗可以幫他贏得高位。  2014-04-10