PHRASE 差强人意;马马虎虎 If you say that something was done after a fashion, you mean that it was done, but not very well.
She was educated — after a fashion — at home... 她算得上是受过教育——家庭教育。
He knew the way, after a fashion. 他勉强认路。
PHRASE 时兴/过时 If something is in fashion, it is popular and approved of at a particular time. If it is out of fashion, it is not popular or approved of.
That sort of house is back in fashion... 那种房子又时兴起来了。
Marriage seems to be going out of fashion. 婚姻似乎快要过时了。
He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. 亚伦从他们手里接过来,铸了一只牛犊,用雕刻的器具做成。
If the Administration won't take the legislative initiative, Congress should help to begin fashioning conservation measures. 如果现政府不采取法律行动,国会应该帮助着手制定保护措施。
Now you are well underway to figuring out what to include in the bullet points you will be fashioning. 现在你非常清楚你写出的要点里要包括什么内容了。
You can't start fashioning a budget without knowing what you have to work with. 你不能在还不知道有多少钱可用的情况下就开始制定预算。
I visited a Mexican spa where a bored local woman rolled me in seaweed as if fashioning a giant joint. 我去了一家墨西哥水疗中心,一个百无聊赖的当地女人用海草把我卷起来,就像卷一支巨大的***烟。
Information technology is fashioning a woven world. 信息技术编织了一个网状世界。
And as Lord Kitchener, Commander in Chief of the British Army, began fashioning the trench coat then referred to simply as a "Burberry" the place of this clothing item in society was sealed. 随着英军总司令基钦纳勋爵开始穿这个牌子的风雨衣当时只被简单地称为一件“巴宝莉”这款服装在社会上的地位也就此确立。
We're fashioning a very long poking device. 我们要做一个很长的探测器。
The materials which a jury uses in fashioning its verdict should come to it in open court. 陪审团在做出裁定的过程中,所依据的各种材料应该是在公开审理的过程中得到的。
Now considered an art form, quilt-making originated as a means of fashioning bed covers from bits of fabric that otherwise had no use. 现已被视为艺术的制被,源于一种用废弃的碎布料装饰床单的技术。
A newly educated elite is fashioning a political identity. 高等教育的精英流行有一个政治身份。
Cheap communications and information technology are fashioning a woven world, a global community& or, more precisely, a multitude of global communities. 廉价通讯和信息的传递技术创造了一个网络世界、一个全球化社区&或者更精确地说是创造了大量的全球化社区。
Consider yourself on the night shift, I self-instruct, clambering into my writing room, snapping on the light, sitting at my desk and fashioning a few taut sentences for my novel. 就当是在上夜班,我这么对自己说着,爬上我的写作间,扭开电灯,坐在桌子前,开始为我的小说精心构造一些简练的句子。
At the World Cup, Maradona seems to be fashioning himself as the most'African'of non-Africans. 马拉多纳并不是非洲人,在本届世界杯上,他似乎却极具非洲特色。
Across the country, experiments in fashioning health-care delivery systems have gone forward. 在中国各地,改进医疗服务体系的尝试在不断取得进展。
The step in the fashioning process of a diamond in which the stone is given a circular shape. 在形成过程中的一个步骤,其中钻石是石头形状有圆形。
The countries of east Asia are fashioning institutions, standards and trade agreements, often without the US. 东亚国家在制定相关制度、标准与贸易协定时,常常把美国晾在一边。
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. 大自然充满了天才,完全是神,所以这不是一个逃跑的雪花形成的手。
While Mr Mbeki liked to encourage a "south-south" axis, his drive appeared as much to do with fashioning a lever against the West as a desire for close co-operation with Beijing. 姆贝基希望促进“南南合作”,但他的动机中除了与中国建立密切合作关系的渴望,似乎还有寻求以此挟制西方的成分。
A machine of this sort often contains up to six cutting heads fashioning simultaneously, under computer control and at breakneck speed, small pieces of metal that are later assembled into larger items such as undercarriages for aircraft or vehicle engines. 一台机器往往有6个切割头,在电脑控制下,它们以飞快的速度同时对小块金属进行加工,随后,这些小块金属被组装成较大的产品,比如飞机起落架或汽车引擎。
He appears not to be looking, but fashioning by touch alone. 他似乎并没有看,而仅仅靠手摸塑造出造型。
Indeed he once cautioned that China should beware of fashioning a colonial relationship with Africa. 实际上,他曾警告称,中国应谨防与非洲结成一种殖民关系。
The theory in still fashioning a process must consider these different aspects. 仍在形成过程中的理论必须考虑到这些不同的方面。
It does not consist of fashioning proposals that would attract bipartisan support on their merits. 它不包括形成的提案,这将吸引两党支持他们的价值。
His urban types often sport European haute couture, a masking of the modern Beijing body, analogous to the fashioning of its modern face ( Mask Series No.2,1997). 他的都市原型总是以欧洲上等文化自我炫耀,而这正是现代北京的身体之上的一副面具,与其现代容颜的时尚化相类似。
From the rear he looked like an animal fashioning its nest. 从背后看去,他就象一头野兽在那里做窝。
At home, my parents would be in the tiny kitchen above the coal cellar, fashioning out concoctions of flour, chopped onions, bits of fish, anything they could get their hands on. 我父母在家里的煤窖上面有个袖珍厨房,他们在里面加工面粉混合物,切洋葱和鱼块,任何可以吃的东西他们都做。
Century Passing, Continuous Coming Down& On the Running Tradition of Chengde Petroleum College Evolved in Its 100-year History; During one hundred years, Peking University has been fashioning its tradition. 百年传承薪火相继&谈我校百年历史形成的办学传统一百年来,北京大学培育了自己的传统。
Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. 然而可悲的是,由于对人类心理状态的无知,它却继续用某种教育体制,以它自己形成的“无活力的概念”,再度把人性牢牢地束缚起来。
The implication of self-fashioning is not just individuals fashioning themselves but of how Renaissance culture fashioned itself. 自我塑造不是仅仅指个体塑造着他们自己,更是意味着文艺复兴文化如何塑造它本身。