| 单词 | what it was |
| 释义 | DEFINITIVE EXAMPLES 权威例句〔ANSWER〕Dr Kleinert murmured a reply, but I couldn't hear what it was. 科莱纳特博士咕咕哝哝地答了一句，但我听不清他说了些什么。朗文写作活用〔COMPARE〕It is interesting to contrast life in Spain now with what it was like prior to 1975. 将西班牙现在的生活与1975年之前的对照很有意思。朗文写作活用〔TIME〕For a second there, I forgot what it was called. 在那里我有一会想不起它叫什么了。朗文写作活用〔TIRED/TIRING〕Moira was half-asleep when the phone rang and it took her a few seconds to realize what it was. 莫伊拉非常困，这时电话铃响了，几秒钟后她才意识到那是什么声音。朗文写作活用〔TRUE〕It is undeniable that Africa is a very different place to what it was fifty years ago. 和50年前相比非洲的变化相当大，这是不容置疑的。朗文写作活用〔around〕Martha heard a noise and spun around to see what it was.玛莎听见有动静，转过身来想看看是什么。麦克米伦高阶〔bride〕She could barely remember what it was like to be a bride.她几乎不记得做新娘时是什么样子了。外研社新世纪〔call〕Somebody was calling out something, but I couldn't hear what it was.有人在大声说什么,可我听不清。英汉大词典〔catch〕Then I caught on to what it was the man was saying.然后我才弄清那人在说什么。麦克米伦高阶〔curiosity〕I needed to satisfy my curiosity about what it was like to make records.我需要满足我的好奇心，知道制作唱片是怎么回事。牛津搭配〔death rattle〕He was trying to say something and I leaned down close to try and hear what it was but it just turned into a death rattle.他想要说些什么, 我俯下身贴近他, 努力想听清他说的话, 但只听到他喉头发出的声响。外研社新世纪〔die〕Ron nearly died when he heard what it was going to cost.罗恩听到需要付出的代价, 差点儿没背过气去。外研社新世纪〔discussion〕James was having a long discussion with Peter, but I don't know what it was about.詹姆斯和彼得谈论了很久, 可是我不知道他们谈的是什么。外研社新世纪〔double〕The value of the house is double what it was.这幢房子的价值比原来翻了一番。朗文当代〔feel〕The movie gave us a feel of what it was really like during the war.这部影片使我们感受到战争期间的真实情况。英汉大词典〔flip through〕I just flipped through the book to see what it was like.我只是浏览了一下这本书看看它怎么样。21世纪英汉〔gut〕He knew, deep down, in the gut, what it was like to be inferior.他在心底里知道不如别人意味着什么。英汉大词典〔insecure〕I wonder what it was about her upbringing that made her so insecure.我想知道究竟是什么样的成长经历造成她如此不自信。剑桥高阶〔live〕I wonder what it was like to live then.我很想知道那时候的生活是什么情形。韦氏高阶〔loan〕The average home loan is now almost triple what it was at the beginning of the Eighties.现在的平均住房贷款几乎是八十年代初的三倍。朗文当代〔mad〕We were arguing like mad as to what it was.至于它是什么,我们争论得非常激烈。英汉大词典〔notion〕He had only the vaguest notion of what it was all about.对于这到底是什么的问题, 他只有个最模糊的概念。外研社新世纪〔paint〕He paints a vivid picture of what it was like to be a teenager in Glasgow at that time.他生动地描述了那个时期格拉斯哥青少年的生活。外研社新世纪〔per capita〕The level of per capita taxation in eighteenth-century Britain was about twice what it was in France.18世纪英国的人均征税水平是法国的两倍。外研社新世纪〔quite〕I didn't quite understand what it was all about.我不完全了解那是怎么一回事。英汉大词典〔rap〕Right away he rapped to what it was.他顿时省悟过来那是怎么回事了。英汉大词典〔rather〕He explained what the Crux is, or rather, what it was.他解释了什么是南十字座，或者更确切地说，过去南十字座是什么。柯林斯高阶〔rational〕The voice sounded perfectly rational but what it was saying was completely mad.听声音倒是再清醒不过, 说的内容却全是胡言乱语。外研社新世纪〔reflection〕He threw out his reflection for what it was worth.他不管对不对反正随口就把自己的想法说了出来。英汉大词典〔sell〕The moment you sell yourself is the moment you lose touch with what it was you wanted to do.你出卖自己人格的那一刻正是你背离自己梦想的那一刻。外研社新世纪〔sketchy〕I had only the sketchiest notion of what it was all about.这到底是怎么回事,我知道得少而又少。英汉大词典〔superlative〕The magazine article contained so many superlatives that I found it hard to believe that what it was saying was true.杂志上的这篇文章用了这么多最高级修饰词，让我觉得其可信度不高。剑桥高阶〔trick〕I don't know what it was that did the trick, but I am definitely feeling much better.我不知道是什么起的作用，但是我确实觉得好多了。牛津高阶〔twig〕By the time she'd twigged what it was all about it was too late.等到她把一切都想通时，已为时太晚。柯林斯高阶〔wise〕What it was, whether bear or man or monkey, I could in no wise tell.究竟那东西是熊是人抑或是猴,我全然无法分辨。英汉大词典I don't remember what it was that she was wearing but she was certainly showing a lot of leg (= a large area of her legs could be seen).我想不起来她那时穿得什么，但是她肯定大部分腿露了出来。剑桥国际I wonder what it was about her upbringing that made her so insecure.我想知道究竟是她教育中的什么原因造成她如此不自信。剑桥国际It's still a bit painful, but it's nothing to what it was a week ago.还是有点痛，但是和一星期前相比这点痛算不了什么。剑桥国际Right away he rapped to what it was. 他顿时醒悟到那是怎么一回事。译典通Some officials in the company knew they were selling prohibited equipment and gave false information to try to conceal what it was.公司里一些官员知道他们自己卖的是违禁设备，于是提供虚假资料以掩盖真相。剑桥国际Something seemed to be wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on (=tell exactly) what it was.好像有点不对劲，但我搞不清是什么问题。剑桥国际That unidentified flying object just hurtled across the sky. We cannot make out what it was. 那个不明飞行物体在空中快速移动，我们看不清它是什么。译典通The magazine article contained so many superlatives that I found it hard to believe that what it was saying was true.这篇杂志文章使用的最高级修饰语太多了，令我觉得很难相信它说的都是真的。剑桥国际The shopkeepers are complaining that business has been reduced to a fraction of (=to much less than) what it was before the outbreak of war.店主都在抱怨说生意已经减少到了战前的很小一部分了。剑桥国际This biography offers only a few glimpses of his life (= briefly shows what it was like) before he became famous.这部传记只能让人们对他出名前的生活有点滴了解。剑桥国际We don't know what it was that drove her to parricide.我们不知道究竟是什么使她走上杀害亲人之路。剑桥国际 |
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