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• prep.关于；左右；大概；涉及
• adv.大约；左右；将要；到处
• adj.即将…的

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例句

Trying to straighten out a crazy boss is like trying to soothe a starving cheetah that's about to consume you for dinner.

纠正一个疯狂的老板，犹如抚慰一头正准备把你当晚餐的饥饿猎豹。

But, busy though his official duties may keep him, he said he does not spend much time thinking about being anything but what he is.

但是，忙碌的公事让他身不由己，他说，他很少有时间想自己成为普通人后会是什么样子。

Dragging it on like this is not the way because if you think about it, wealthy people can hold on, but a few storms and the poor will lose.

这么样拖下去实在不是办法，因为啊，你想啊，有钱人扛得住，穷人来个几下暴风骤雨就歇菜了。

The school to which Margarite had transferred when she moved back in with her mother was about 15 miles away.

玛格丽特搬回母亲住处时办理转学的那所学校离家里约15英里远。

Get back in touch with the thoughts and feelings you used to have about your spouse while you were dating.

回想一下你们过去约会时你对配偶的印象和感觉。

The Bank of England may have lost some credibility of late, but it has not lost the argument about spare capacity.

英国银行最近可能丧失了些信用度，但其关于闲置生产能力的言论却非虚妄之言。

You know when I said I knew litter about love?

你知道我以前说过，关于爱，我懂的很少

It would be better for him to talk to his parents about his problems.

他把自己的问题同父母谈谈会比较好。

I do not know how you think, perhaps you will say I am silly, talk about my unreasoning passion.

我不知道你怎样想，或许你会说我傻，说我痴情。

"There were reindeer on his boxer shorts, " he said, making a joke about how all the deer were red- nosed from blood.

“他短裤里有只驯鹿，”他说，接着开始取笑所有的驯鹿是如何被血染成红鼻子的。

I argued that this was the wrong way to think about the matter.

我认为这么思考问题是不对的。

Anything written about electronics will probably be at least partially out of date by the time it appears in print.

任何有关电子学的东西等到印成书出版时，很可能至少部分东西已过时了。

I did not want to complain about anybody, because all this there has never been wrong, including their own.

我没有想抱怨谁，因为这一切本来就没有错，包括自己。

It's easy to feel embarrassed or anxious when talking about sex, but you need to be sure you have all the right information.

谈到性很容易使人感到尴尬或者焦虑，但是你需要确保你获得了所有正确的信息。

Without a logical articulation which does not bring in any prejudice about what is to be wished for the subject, what do you know about it?

假如主体所被期望的需要，没有这个不属于任何偏见的逻辑表达，你们要如何能够知道呢？？

All this points to the only certain thing about Obamacare: that this is just another episode in the long saga of health reform.

所有这些都指向了奥式保健的唯一定事：即这仅仅是旷日持久的医改长剧中的小小一幕。

He has reacted well to the news about his condition and is ready to fight for his comeback.

对于身体状况的恢复情况，他积极回应，并希望能复出继续战斗。

The young man was very miserable. He had no money about him. All his savings had been stolen.

这个年轻人很惨。已落到了身无分文的地步，因为他所有的积蓄都被偷了。

What does it say about the state of the tech industry that this comes as a refreshing surprise?

对于科技产业的状态作为一种令人耳目一新的惊喜，这说明了什么？

Critics have continued to complain about this use of federal money; on July 27th a judge dismissed another lawsuit on the subject.

批评人士继续抱怨联邦资金在这个领域的使用，7月27日一名法官驳回了又一起针对干细胞研究的诉讼。

How have I delighted as I walked to see them driven in showers about me by the wind!

我散步时，看着它们被风吹得纷纷飘落，曾经是多么高兴啊！

It's sad to see her moping about the house like this. What's the matter with her?

看见她在房里这样郁郁不乐地走来走去真是可怜。她出了什么事了？

Surrounded by the fields, it had no garden but for a few beds planted about its feet.

它的四周就是原野，没有花园，只在房子下面有几座花坛。

When they rushed at him, Harry laid about him with his big stick.

当他们向他冲击时，哈利用他的大手杖向四周挥打。

It seems to have been invented by the American astronomer David Rittenhouse in about 1785.

它似乎是美国天文学家D.Rittenhouse在1785年前后发明的。

Now that David was in the shade and the sea stayed calm he began to feel better about it all.

眼下，海面平静、温和，而戴维已经躲开了太阳，这一切都使他逐渐踏实起来。

I know all about this sort of things, you see.

这类事情我统统知道，这你是晓得的。

The child follows her mother about all day long.

孩子整天围着她母亲转。

She choked up when she began to talk about her mother.

她开始谈起母亲时，便哽咽着说不出话来。

There was an air of easy assurance and calm about him.

他表现出从容自信和冷静。

She disputed with me a quarter of an hour yesterday about the cooking of the beef, she said I boiled it to rags.

昨天为了烧牛肉，她同我吵了一刻钟，说我烧得太烂。

His feelings drag him forward and his mind, full of what others say about him, tells him to go back.

他的感情促使他往前走，而他的头脑充斥着别人所说的关于他的话，却叫他往回走。

Do you think I should act as if I knew a lot about the business, or should I keep my mouth shut except when I am spoken to?

你以为我应当充内行仿佛对商业很懂才好呢，还是人家不问就闭口不言呢？

It isn't for the sake of food and wages that I've been waiting about so long in hopes to see you.

我并不是为了吃饭和工钱才这样长久地等待着想跟你见一面呀。

One day, about a month after the inquiry, Arthur suddenly decided to speak to his father on the subject.

法院审理后大约一个月，有一天，阿瑟突然决定和父亲谈谈这个问题。

It would not do for her to drink too much, to reel about in public like the idlers of the Bamboo Brook.

她不宜饮酒过多，免得在大庭广众间象浪迹于竹林溪涧的隐士一样有失体统。

But, after all, she did not think much about her.

可是，她压根儿没有多想到她。

Again Magnus waved, about to yield to his better instincts and to the entreaties of his wife.

曼克奈斯不禁又迟疑起来，眼看快听从自己的本能，听从他妻子的恳求了。

She was a little coy about how much her dress cost.

她对她那件衣服花了多少钱有点吞吞吐吐。

There was, as usual, a crowd of folks about the door, but none that Rip recollected.

门口，和往常一样，聚着一堆人，但是瑞普一个也不认识。

She rounded upon him in the office, charging him with telling lies about her.

她在办公室里对他大发雷霆，指责他造她的谣。

But I don't need to tell you any more about how the business has grown since then.

但是我的生意从那时起是如何兴旺发达起来的，我不需要再跟你多讲了。

"Maybe you know more about it than I do, " said the ogre's wife.

“也许你比我知道得更清楚吧。”魔鬼的妻子回答说。

He had got up from his seat, had turned once more about the little drawing-room.

他从座位上起来，又一次在小客厅里走来走去。

He is always prating about her wealthy relations, as if anybody cared.

他总是对别人炫耀她的阔亲戚，好像别人对此感兴趣似的。

Unless you look at him, wonder at him, write paragraphs about him, he cannot live.

除非你监视他，怀疑他，写文章谈到他，否则他无法生活。

"About a year and a half ago, " says Mr. Snagsby, strengthened, "he came into our place one morning after breakfast. "

“大约在一年半以前，”斯纳斯比打起精神说道：“有一天早上，刚刚吃过早饭，他上我们这儿来了。”

If I had not been angry about that I should never have written the book.

要不是我对此事愤忿不平，我根本就不会动笔写此书的。

The stone cut their hands and made them bleed, but the men did not worry about that.

石头划破了他们的手，鲜血直淌，但他们却满不在乎。

A small man of about thirty, with green eyes and a tangle of fair hair, stood looking down at me.

我面前站着一个三十岁上下的矮小的汉子，碧绿的眼睛，一头乱七八糟的淡黄头发，他正低头望着我。

Don't apologize for what you are about to say. Begin with a bang and get straight to the point.

不要为你所说的感到抱歉，以精彩开头，并且直奔主题。

Given how much time we spend on them, maybe a bit more passion about our keyboards from all of us wouldn't go amiss.

鉴于我们每天要与键盘打如此长时间的交道，对键盘的关注超乎寻常一些恐怕不算有毛病吧。

No one in his life, except maybe Tanya, would recognize him now, sitting on this stranger's bed, about to have sex with a man.

除了坦尼娅，不会有人能认出他的现在这个模样：坐在陌生人的床上，即将和一个男人上床。

At the same time, he remains realistic about how much the foundation can achieve.

同时，李连杰对基金会能够达到的程度，保持客观的态度。

The best thing about it was that you didn't have to be a size zero to try it.

学钢管舞最好的一件事就是你的身材好坏并不会影响你去尝试它。

Bruises along the underside of his arm throbbed impatiently and he felt like he was about to puke again.

他胳膊下面的瘀伤没有耐性地悸动着，他感觉自己又要吐了。

You could get the data in an element, work with its children, find out the value of an attribute. . . and that's really about it.

您可以从某个元素中获得数据，操作其子元素，找出某个属性的值等，全部都是这方面的操作。

About a bird in a cage with a mirror, a simple twist on the handle at the side that makes it come and go at the magician's insistence.

关于一鸟在一个有镜子，就在一边处理，使得它来来去去，在魔术师的坚持简单扭曲笼。

That was one of the first things I learned about him when we married thirty-one years ago.

我对他【的第一次了解（最初了解的一个方面）】还是当我们三十年前结婚的时候。

I asked her: "The submitted one? You are responsible for that. " Forget about it. What she said had to be an improperly prepared excuse.

我问她：“就是我上交的那一份吗？那是你们的职责。”别提了。她所说的无非是一个欠准备的借口。

The price was not disclosed, although people familiar with the matter said it was worth about $300m.

双方未透露交易的价格，但知情人士表示，该交易价值约3亿美元。

The outside world is suspicious of China and worried about what sort of power it will turn out to be.

外部世界对中国心存猜疑，并为该国将演变为怎样一种大国而忧心忡忡。

asking students to take more frontal seats in the classroom; asking student to ask his classmates questions about his presentation.

此外，在课堂上要求学生向前坐，并在学生报告后，请报告同学提出问题问同学。

These size differences relate to how much they think about their own decisions.

差异大小与做决策时思考多少有关。

How much do you know about shanghai?

你对上海了解多少？

Needles and bags are efficiently hustled into place, as if it were not poison that is about to be put in the body.

针和药水袋已经有效的固定好，好像只要没有阻碍就将进入身体。

You've got to be very, very responsible when you're talking about Raheem.

而当你们谈论拉希姆的时候，真的是要非常、非常的有责任心。

The thing that annoys me about him is the way he never says "Hello! " .

他使我讨厌的是，从来不跟别人打呼。

Let me know in the comments at the bottom of this article what I'm right about and what I'm wrong about.

请在本文底部发表评论，可以让我知道哪些是对的，哪些是错的。

Before you begin working with the WebSphere CloudBurst REST API, take a moment to understand a few basics about this interface.

在开始使用WebSphereCloudBurstRESTAPI之前，应该先花点时间来理解关于这个接口的一些基本知识。

In a few seconds he opened his eyes and looked about him.

一会儿，他睁开眼睛，环顾四周。

They had been wasting the precious time running about all over the country, begging and praying for a candidate.

他们浪费宝贵的时光跑遍全国东求西讨想找一位候选人。

They were about to be down on her when she came into the office.

他们正要埋怨她时她进入办公室。

The years rolled by and still there was no news whatsoever about him.

几年过去了，关于他的情况仍杳无音讯。

Pamela's reaction in London to the news about Henry had indicated that the romance was far from dead.

帕米拉在伦敦听到关于亨利的消息时的反应，说明这种风流韵事远远没有结束。

She has been chasing about town all morning looking for a pair of shoes for her daughter.

为给女儿买一双鞋，她跑了一上午在市内各处寻找。

He paced about with his head bent forward and his hands alternately clasped behind him or cupped prayerfully in front of him.

他走起路来头向前倾，两只手不是倒背，就是象祷告似的合放在胸前。

I would like to have had the uniform off although I did not care much about the outward forms.

虽然我不拘外表形式，我倒很想把这制服脱掉。

To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it was not dazzled by the apparition.

在凯瑟琳看来佩尼曼太太没有什么深不可测的地方，她能一目了然地将她看透而不被她外表的假象所迷惑。

When he started telling everybody about the time I fell down in the middle of the love scene in the school play, I could have died.

当他告诉大家说，我在学校里演出的那场爱情剧中摔了一跤时，我真窘得要命。