She stood three feet high and her hands rested on her hips.

她身高3英尺，双手叉腰。

During the journey, their boat began to sink.

途中，船开始下沉，

This was worse than a terrible secret'; this was a read skeleton! But George was unsympathetic.

这是比“骇人听闻的秘密”更加惊人的东西，这是一具真正的骷髅啊！但乔治却无动于衷。

When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right', we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.

当我们说“他罪有应得”这句话的时候，我们部分承认了某种特定的环境使得正义自动地起了作用。

The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot.

医院遭到轰炸，汉斯步行回到了西德。

The village seemed deserted, the only sign of life being an ugly-looking black goat on a short length of rope tied to a tree in a field nearby.

村里似乎无人居住，唯一的生命迹象是附近田里一只面目可憎的黑山羊，用一截短绳拴在一棵树上。