一桩

• I easily gather, mr. traveler, that you have set forth to accomplish a very important matter .
  旅行家先生，不难猜想，您出门远行是为了完成一桩重大的使命。
• Somehow it had taken us ten years to bite the bullet on that one, which had never earned us a dime .
  对这一桩从未给我们挣一分钱的买卖，我们苦苦容忍了十年。
• The afternoon's ride with him and crossjay was an agreeable beguilement to her in prospect .
  下午与他和克罗斯杰骑马兜风对她来说将是一桩令人向往的愉快的消遣。
• Oh, suffering christ, there are no words to tell of a deed so black and awful !
  哦，受苦受难的耶酥啊，简直没有适当的言辞可以形容如此恶毒，如此可怕的一桩罪行。
• He had forgotten how fast the visual media, once tipped off, could cover a breaking story .
  他已经忘了，电视记者只要一听到风声，就能多么快报道一桩轰动的新闻。
• Then the question arises. is this one disparity sufficient to operate as a bar to such a marriage ?
  那么，问题就来了，只有一点不相称，难道就能作为这么一桩婚姻的障碍吗？
• He had begun an anecdote, and in his broad expanse of face his tiny mouth writhed like a caterpillar .
  他已经在谈一桩奇闻，在他那宽阔的脸上，他的小嘴巴扭得象一条小毛虫。
• When men are pursuing their normal rounds of duty, a crime as black and bloody as this is committed .
  正当人们在正常地尽自己职责的时候，突然发生了这么一桩恶毒、血腥的罪行。
• When wildeve came on to that spot his ankle was caught by something, and he fell headlong .
  过了一会儿，韦狄走到那块地方的时候，有一桩东西把他的脚脖子绊住了，把他摔了一个倒栽葱。
• June the sixteenth brought an event which made mr. franklin's chance look, to my mind, a worse chance than ever .
  六月十六日出了一桩事，照我看来，这一下子弗兰克林先生更没有希望了。