英语例句

含「was」的例句共 10451 条

The kitchen was lit by a single candle.

厨房里只点了一支蜡烛。
What happened to the candle if there was a wind blowing on it?

如果有风吹在蜡烛上，会发生什么？
I couldn't make out what she was saying.

我听不清她在说什么。
She astonished us by saying she was leaving.

她说她要离开，令我们大为惊奇。
I didn't pay attention to what she was saying.

我没有注意她在说什么。
I paid scant attention to what she was saying.

我没大注意她在说什么。
He continued to ignore everything I was saying.

他仍对我所说的一切置若罔闻。
There was no opportunity for further discussion.

没有机会进行深入讨论了。
What he said was a fair summation of the discussion.

他这番话对讨论作了恰当的总结。
The presentation was succeeded by a roundtable discussion.

这个讲演之后是一次圆桌讨论。
There was much discussion about the reasons for the failure.

就失败的原因进行了大量的讨论。
She was a guest at the wedding.

她是参加婚礼的客人。
There was a cutaway to Jackson's guest on the podium.

镜头切换到了台上杰克逊的一位客人。
He was surprised by his wife's omission from the guest list.

他对于宾客名单上他夫人名字的遗漏感到吃惊。
Liz was not on the guest list.

利兹不在邀请之列。
He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.

他很难对她的消失作出解释。
It was difficult to explain the problem to beginners.

对初学者解释这个问题很难。
I was only trying to explain; I didn't want to sound patronizing.

我只是想解释一下而已，绝无自诩清高之意。
He tried to use his own weight to push his attacker off but he was off balance.

他试图利用自己的重量推开袭击者，但他失去了平衡。
She was engrossed in conversation.

她聚精会神地谈话。
In conversation, he was suave and urbane.

谈话中他彬彬有礼且温文尔雅。
Her conversation was laced with witty asides.

她的谈话因有趣的题外话而增色。
His conversation was larded with Russian proverbs.

他的谈话夹杂了很多俄国谚语。
The main topic of conversation was Tom's new girlfriend.

交谈的主要话题是汤姆的新女友。
She was genuinely angered at his impolite words.

听到他粗鲁的话，她可真动火了。
Everyone was impolite and impatient to him.

所有人对他都很不礼貌，也不耐烦。
"You said there was something you wanted to ask me," he said politely.

“你说过有什么事情要问我，”他彬彬有礼地说。
He was charged with causing a public nuisance.

他被控妨害公共利益罪。
The name was changed to avoid confusion with another firm.

改名是为了避免和另一家公司混淆。
The decision wasn't made by accident and I'd thought about it for long.

做此决定并非偶然，对此我已思虑多时。
Tea was discovered as a kind of drink by accident about 5,000 years ago.

茶叶是在大约5000年前被偶然发现可作为饮料饮用。
It was hard to know whether it happened by accident or by design.

很难知道这是偶然发生还是有意为之。
The word "serendipity" was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who "were always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of".

“Serendipity”这个词，是在1854年由霍勒斯·沃波尔在一封信中创造的，这个词源于一个关于三个王子的故事，他们“总是意外地发现那些他们无意寻找的东西”。
The invitation letter was emailed to Toby by accident.

邀请函是不小心发给托比的。
In May, he had bad luck because he hurt himself by accident while he was preparing for this year's Tokyo World Championships.

今年5月，他运气不佳，在准备今年的东京世界锦标赛时意外受伤。
What was discovered by accident?

意外发现了什么？
She was badly burnt by accident when she went out with her grandparents.

她在和爷爷奶奶一起出门时，发生意外，被严重烧伤了。
The money was collected for a specific purpose.

这笔钱是为一个特定用途而收的。
The main purpose of his holiday to Greece was to go diving.

他到希腊度假的主要目的就是去潜水。
The purpose of the visit was to navigate into an ice-filled fiord.

这次访问的目的是为驶入一个冰雪覆盖的峡湾导航。
The purpose of the occasion was to raise money for medical supplies.

此次活动的目的是为医疗用品筹款。
Why make a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose?

如果不是出于某种恶毒的目的，为什么把整村人囚禁起来？
Her purpose was to scrutinize his features to see if he was an honest man.

她的目的是仔细察看他的特征看他是不是个诚实的人。
The express purpose of the flights was to get Americans out of the danger zone.

这些航班的特定目的是让美国人离开该险区。
Mr. Blake was a gent. He knew how to behave.

布莱克先生是位绅士，他知道该怎样行事。
They were asked to behave with the gravity that was appropriate in a court of law.

他们被要求在法庭上表现出应有的严肃态度。
This was impossible for Mr. Candidate, who had to greet Mr. Sesemann first.

这对凯迪达特先生来说是不可能的，因为他必须先问候赛赛曼先生。
At the age of 13, I was taught to French kiss.

在13岁时，我被教会了法式接吻。
For a moment I thought he was going to kiss me. I recoiled in horror.

一时间我认为他要吻我。我惊恐地躲开了。
It would have been nice to give him a cuddle and a kiss but there wasn't time.

当时要是拥抱他并吻他一下就好了，可惜时间来不及。