2009年2月27日 星期五

plumb any depth

It seems Ryanair is prepared to plumb any depth to make a fast buck and, once again, is putting profit before the comfort of its customer
似乎Ryanair 已經準備好無所不用其極,打算再一次的把利益放在乘客的舒適度之上。

police and drug traffickers have waged pitched battles using automatic weapons and grenades.
警察和毒販發動慘烈的戰爭---包括使用自動武器和手榴彈。

But there are parts of Mexico off the beaten path … where there have been incidents lately, and they're itemized on the [departmental] website.
但是墨西哥還是有些比較少人注意的地方有發生一些事件,這些地方,我們的部門的網站已經有條列出來。

Both the RCMP and the local search and rescue team have been under fire because a search for the couple was never organized, despite two reports of SOS signs stamped in the snow.
加拿大皇家騎警隊和當地的搜救隊雖然收到了兩次有人用腳在雪中踩出SOS的報告,卻從沒有對這對夫婦展開搜救行動,而遭到詰難(責難、責罵)。

必備片語
plumb any depth---to use to an extreme degree不擇手段

pitched battle----a big battle between armies or large groups of people(發動戰爭,常用的動詞wage)

off the beaten path--a place that is off the beaten track is not well known and is far away from the places that people usually visit

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