Lesson 6 - HOLD WATER / WATER OFF A DUCK'S BACK...

to hold water water off a duck's back it makes my mouth water 这一课里我们再要讲两个和水，也就是和 water 这个字有关的词汇。第一个是 to hold water。 To hold water 按字面

【断背山】06

A few handfuls of hailrattled against the window followed by rain and slippery wind banging theunsecured door of the next room then and through the night.The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpetand sour hay, saddle leath

Lesson 5 - IN HOT WATER / THROW COLD WATER ON STH.

in hot water to throw cold water on something 英语里有好些习惯用语都和

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Breakfast over, I made my way ashore. 早餐完了，我就到地上去。 The Nautilus had gone a few more miles during the night. 诺第留斯号在夜间又向上前进了好几海里。 It lay well out, a good league from the coast, which was cro

习惯用语－in hot water; throw cold water on sth.

in hot water to throw cold water on something 英语里有好些习惯用语都和“水”，就是water这个字有关系。有的用：hot water；还有的用：cold water or deep water。在英语里

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I hold myself the grand reformer of the age. 我自认是这一时代了不起的改革家。 From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of a vast portion of its crime and anguish, 从我的喷嘴或姑且

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The lava, unleashed, transforms the earth. Along its way from comb to sea, it is a force of change, leaving in its wake a course of destruction and creation. The volcano sculpts a surreal moonscape. Huge rocks ferry on the backs of flows, tower over

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Launched at length upon these almost final waters, and gliding towards the Japanese cruising-ground, the old man's purpose intensified itself. 现在终于驶到这些简直可说是最后的洋面上，而且正向着日本的巡游渔场慢慢前进，

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What happens when we run out of water? Over the last century, H20 has become so convenient we take it for granted. That's about to change Water is both mythic and real. It manages to be at once part of the mystery of life and part of the routine of l

斯洛文尼亚小镇打造啤酒喷泉

A small Slovenian town is pressing ahead with plans to build a fountain which spouts beer instead of water, despite opposition from some councillors. 尽管遭到一些地方议员反对，但斯洛文尼亚的一个小镇仍在极力推行一项计划

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The Pequod had now swept so nigh to the stranger, that Stubb vowed he recognized his cutting spade-pole entangled in the lines that were knotted round the tail of one of these whales. 裴廓德号现在已跟这艘陌生船靠得很拢，所以斯塔布

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then, the harpooneers seemed more to grieve that the swift whales had been gaining upon the ship, 这时，标枪手们对于那些疾奔的大鲸之迫近船边所感到的忧伤， than to rejoice that the ship had so victoriously gained upon the M

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Crowding all sail the Pequod pressed after them; 裴廓德号扯起所有的篷帆，紧追起它们了； the harpooneers handling their weapons, and loudly cheering from the heads of their yet suspended boats. 标枪手们都握着他们的标枪，在

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Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and forming a great semicircle, 这时，在船头两侧、相距两三英里的海面上，有一个大半圆形， embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-

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How obvious it is it, too, that this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase. 鲸既然必需这样冒出水面来，那么，它显然就有遭到追击的一切生命攸关的危险了。 For not by hook o

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Their appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner. Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward. 它们一出现,总要受到水手们的兴高采烈的欢呼。它们总是精神饱满地打从微风的

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Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded 第八十三章 从历史上看约拿 Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the preceding chapter. 关于约拿和大鲸的史实，前一章已经提到了。 Now some Nantucketer

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Then holding the lance full before his waistband's middle, he levels it at the whale; 于是，他把那支长长的捕鲸枪拎在他的腰际，瞄向大鲸， when, covering him with it, he steadily depresses the butt-end in his hand, 等到完全把