登山运动员可以在靴子上捆上尖钉,这样有助于在很滑的陡坡上站住脚。
He found a secure foothold and pulled himself up.
他找到了一个稳固的踏脚处并爬了上去。
7.decapitate vt.杀头
例句:Jewish heroine who saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
通过斩首亚述将军荷罗孚尼救了她的人民的犹太英雄
8.dominate vt.vi.控制, 支配, 统治,左右,影响
例句:The stronger man dominates the weaker.
强者支配弱者。
9.broaden vt.vi.使…变宽, 扩展
例句:The river broadens here.
河流在这里变宽了。
10.toughen vt.
vi. (使)变坚韧,(使)变顽固,使困难
例句:He needs plenty of hard exercise to toughen him up.
他需要充分的艰苦锻炼以增强体质。
1.The commission's co-chairman William Reilly said the three firms - BP, Transocean and Halliburton - shared a culture of complacency rather than safety.
rather than而不是
例句:They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.
他们这样增加了而不是减少了粮食年产量。
2.William Reilly didn't mince his words; the three companies were, he said, in need of top-to-bottom reform.
not mince his words直言不讳