You see, 4 months before she was born, my tall, blonde, blue eyed, martial arts-pro friend had died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 27.
因为就在我女儿出生前4个月,我那位高个子,金色头发,蓝眼睛,爱好武术的朋友死于脑动脉瘤,他死的时候只有27岁。
My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying.
我的母亲只有不到五英尺高,平时说话非常温和,但极少数生气的时候,她会表现得很可怕。
I am now tall, and my branches spread like the others that were carried off last year!
我现在已经很高了,我的树枝就像去年被运走的那些树一样。
From 1979 to 1985 I spent most of my time in Beijing, until a tall handsome Texan won my heart and I went back to the US to marry and build a home.
从1979年到1985年,我的大多数时间都是在北京度过的,一直待到一个高大英俊的得克萨斯人赢得了我的心,我便回美国和他结婚成家了。
My friend looked into a tall mirror just as he was lifting his foot to a stool to dry it, and he was reminded of the statue.
我的朋友在把脚举到凳子上晾干的时候把目光投向了一面高大的镜子并想起了那个造型。
I was an awkward child. Tall, gangly, and, like everyone else in my family, severely myopic.
我是一个不讨人喜欢的孩子,瘦高个,还像我家里的每个人一样,眼睛严重近视。
My father stunned me when he leaned his tall figure low and lifted me into his arms.
父亲弯下他高大的身躯,用双臂把我抱起,这着实令我大吃一惊。
My old too-short lenses were only 26mm tall, so I was looking to get something with around 30mm of lens height.
我的旧眼镜镜片只有26毫米高,所以我希望新镜片高度在30毫米左右。
No. 15, a strikingly tall man with side-swept bangs, says: "I want to get married for my parents, but I think lying to them will make me feel terrible.
15号是一位有着令人惊讶身高的小伙子,看起来他有旺盛的精力,他说道:“我希望为父母结婚,但是我认为向父母撒谎对我是一件可怕的事情。
Then I raised my eyes, and I saw a handsome tall boy, just like Beckham, with a high nose|and wearing a blushing smile|looking at my face.
我抬眼看去,看见一个男孩,英俊高大,像贝克汉姆,鼻子高挺,带着一抹腼腆的微笑望着我。
From 1963 to the early 1970s, all the diary books my mother and an older sister used showed the novel's cover — a tall pine standing against the wind on a red-colored cliff.
从1963年直到1970年初,我妈和我姐用的所有日记本都用红岩作封面-一块红色的石头上迎风立着一棵高大的松树。
I am a tall, fit, white guy in my mid-thirties. I am from the East coast, went to Ivy League schools for college and an MBA, and now live in New York City.
我是白人,三十多岁,身材高大匀称,在美国东岸长大,常春藤名校读的本科和MBA,目前居住在纽约。
"They grew up a number of tall trellises and had lovely scarlet flowers," Ms.Sanchez wrote. "My granny called them scarlet runners."
“它们缠绕着高大的棚架,长得非常茂盛,还开出可爱的深红色花朵,”Sanchez写道:“我的外婆把它们叫做红色跑者。”
"They grew up a number of tall trellises and had lovely scarlet flowers," Ms. Sanchez wrote. "My granny called them scarlet runners."
“它们缠绕着高大的棚架,长得非常茂盛,还开出可爱的深红色花朵,”Sanchez写道:“我的外婆把它们叫做红色跑者。”
It’s Audubon’s Birds of America, the deluxe, wonderful double-elephant folio that’salmost as tall as my young self.
这是奥杜邦的《美国本土鸟类绘本》,华丽漂亮的双开本,几乎和小时候的我一样高。
On days like this I love to find a place where silence rules, where the wind in the tall 1 pine trees sounds like ocean waves crashing along some deserted beach I've walked along in my memory.
在这种时候,我总是喜欢找一个宁静的地方,在那里,风从高高耸立的松树间穿过,听起来就像是海浪拍打着我记忆中曾漫步过的某个荒芜的沙滩。
2 are short and muscular, like my friend Alec; the other is tall and thin, like Rob.
一共有三个鬼魂,其中两个像亚历克似的又矮又壮,另外一个则像罗布一样又高又瘦。
I'm slow, can't jump, and I'm under six feet tall. My chances of playing professional basketball in the NBA aren't looking so good.
我快43岁了,身高不足六英尺,蹦不高跑不快,恐怕打nBA职业篮球赛的希望不大。
I was still a child when my cousin Ganendra died in the prime of his youth, but for those who have once beheld him it is impossible to forget his handsome, tall and stately figure.
我还是个孩子时,我的堂哥加奈德拉(Ganendra)就在风华正茂的青年时去世了,但对于那些曾经见过他的人来说,他那英俊,高大而威严的形象是无法忘记的。
My friend B., who is tall and gorgeous, jokes that she could have married an NBA player, but decided to go with the guy she can talk to all night—a graphic artist who comes up to her shoulder.
我的一个朋友B又高挑又养眼,开玩笑说她完全配得上NBA球员,但是最后却还是跟一个可以彻夜聊天、不觉无语的男人在一起了,这个男人是一个艺术家,但是身高只及B的肩膀。
Why not marry my friend Robert Dudley,the Earl of Leicester?He is a tall,strong man.
为什么不嫁给我的朋友莱斯特伯爵罗伯特达德利呢?
For the purposes of this story, you'll need to know that my friend Rob is tall and thin, and my friend Alec is short and well built.
为了更好的理解这个故事,你得先知道我的朋友罗布又瘦又高,而亚历克个子不高,长得很壮实。
One night I woke up to find my sash window open and the tall figure standing on the balcony, looking out across the town.
一天晚上,我醒来看到推拉窗开着,阳台上有个高高的黑影,正看着整个镇子。
I picked Big Ben for my hero because I always watched him perform on TV and I always thought that he was a gorgeous horse (even though most trainers thought he was too tall or too ugly).
我选择本作为我的偶像是因为我总是在电视上看他的表演,我一直觉得他是最帅的马(虽然有些训练员认为他太高、太丑)。
The features of that tall fair personage shone with such a striking radiance that I could not contain my curiosity about him — he was the only one there whose name I felt concerned to know that day.
他魁伟白皙的容貌,焕发出一种引人注目的光彩,我禁不住对他产生好奇心- - -他是那天我唯一一心想要知道姓名的人。
In my imagination, a mountain was probably a thick and round column, so tall that it pierced the sky and looked awesome.
我曾幻想,山大概是一个圆而粗的柱子吧,顶天立地,好不威风。
My husband Jason and I are both quite slim, but also pretty tall, so maybe that's it.
我丈夫杰森和我都是瘦高体型,所以这可能就是婴儿体型大的原因。
There's the bridge over the lazy river where I love to park my bike, and just sit on the tall ledge to think penetrating thoughts, as I look down the river into the expansive horizon.
我经常把单车停在悠悠的河边,坐在高高的桥上,眺望宽广无尽的地平线,思考着我那些奇异的想法。
That awareness shows up on the EEG as tall peaks in the parts of my brain Kishiyama says are associated with emotion, attention and memory.
在脑电图描述器中的峰值点显示的意识正好是与感情,关注和记忆相关的。
I can get to be about 5 feet (about 1.5 meters) tall if you measure from my hooves to my shoulders.
如果你从我的蹄量到肩,我大约能有5英尺(约1.5米)高。
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