Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary—she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.
可怜的、瘦小的、灰黄的、丑陋的玛丽——有那么一会儿她看上去几乎是漂亮的。
The fall foliage viewing season is clearly past its prime, but there are still some nice opportunities for capturing something pretty for the camera.
观赏秋天落叶的季节已经明显地过了它的早期,可是我们仍然有机会去拍摄一些优美的东西。
You would have to be pretty hard-hearted not to feel something for him.
你必须是非常铁石心肠才能对他没有一点同情。
Professor Pretty feels that organic farming would be too big a jump in thinking and in practices for many farmers.
普雷蒂教授认为,对许多农民来说,有机农业在思想和实践上是太大的飞跃了。
For all the uproar over "Breaking News," I thought it was a pretty bold statement out of the gate in terms of lyrical target.
对于《爆炸新闻》引起的所有轩然大波,我认为,就抒情目标而言,这是一个相当大胆的声明。
Put on a pretty dress, for we are going to church!
穿上漂亮的衣服,因为我们要去教堂!
These are pretty important institutions, so, yeah, she definitely made headway for women artists.
这些都是相当重要的机构,所以,是的,她确实为女性艺术家们做出了贡献。
This is a problem for people, because windmills are often in very pretty areas.
这对人们来说是个问题,因为风车通常建在非常漂亮的地方。
Now, for animals other than birds, the care of young by both parents is pretty unusual in the animal kingdom.
现在,对于鸟类以外的动物来说,父母双方都照顾孩子在动物界是很罕见的。
Well, it's pretty common for writers to generalize, say use a term like hydroponics to describe other types of agriculture.
作家们通常会用水培法之类的术语来概括其他类型的农业,这很常见。
It was really pretty exciting for scientists at that time to find these missing elements and confirm their predictive properties.
对当时的科学家来说,找到这些缺失的元素并证实它们被预测的特性,确实是非常令人兴奋的。
Suffice to say, I've been feeling pretty satisfied with myself for all the drinking water I've saved with these big-ticket projects.
无需多说,我对自己用这些大项目节省下来的饮用水感到非常满意。
As you know, there have been reports of unrest in India and the prospects for the rupee look pretty gloomy.
如你所知,有报道称印度出现了动荡,卢比的前景看起来相当黯淡。
It's pretty cheap, you can get a bed in a dormitory for nineteen dollars per person.
这家招待所很便宜,宿舍里单人床才19美元。
Even if Steel does happen to be among that tiny minority, says Bostock, it's "pretty irresponsible" to suggest that 20-hour days are simply a question of discipline for the rest of us.
博斯托克表示,即使斯蒂尔恰好属于这一小部分人,认为每天工作20个小时对我们其他人来说只是一个纪律问题,也是“相当不负责任”的。
It's a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime—which means you'll have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.
这是一份非常简单的工作,但有很多休息时间——这意味着你有足够的时间阅读、做作业或准备考试。
Walking four miles in an hour is pretty good going for me.
一小时走四英里对我来说是相当不错了。
We knew we were in for a pretty long, jejune evening.
我们知道自己身处一个相当漫长而乏味的夜晚。
She had known Max for some years now, but he was still pretty much an unknown quantity.
她现在认识马克斯也好几年了,但是他仍然是个大大的未知数。
He's so effective. I admire Ginny for pretty much the same reason.
他真有效。我佩服金尼也出于此因。
I have lost a total of 19 pounds and have been pretty much in a holding pattern for the past three to four weeks.
我的体重共减少了19磅,过去三四周没什么变化。
I think what I put in that book is now pretty much the agenda for this country.
我认为我在那本书里写的正是该国目前亟待解决的问题。
I am stopping by to reserve a place for my school club that meet and work, pretty much on a regular basis.
我顺便来这儿为我在学校的俱乐部预订一个地方,从而让我们基本能够定期见面和工作。
"That's actually a pretty large effect for a pretty small intervention," Schwitzgebel says.
施维茨格贝尔说:“对于一个极小的干预措施来说,这的确是一个极大的影响。”
There are a few pretty exciting possibilities for Uranium-Lead Dating.
铀-铅年代测定法有一些相当令人兴奋的可能性。
If you don't mind working in the kitchen, we've got some pretty flexible hours for students doing food-prep work, anything from early morning to late afternoon.
如果你不介意在厨房里干活,我们负责备餐的学生工作时间是很灵活的,从一大早到傍晚的任何时间都没有问题。
Buckingham Palace is just open for the summer, so that's pretty popular.
白金汉宫只在夏天开放,所以那儿相当受欢迎。
Yes, both those weeks are pretty clear at the moment, except for the eleventh of June.
是的,除了6月11日以外,这两个星期都很清楚。
We have a pretty great orchestra here that you can take for credit, as like a class.
我们这里有一个非常棒的管弦乐队,加入其中你还可以获得学分,就像上课一样。
Nicola Sturgeon's speech last Tuesday setting out the Scottish government's legislative programme for the year ahead confirmed what was already pretty clear.
上周二,尼古拉·斯特金在演讲中阐述了苏格兰政府未来一年的立法计划,证实了早已相当明确的事情。
应用推荐