• I've devoted great care to planning how I'll exit the scene: every month for the last year I've been pilfering a sleeping pill from Maman's box on the night-table.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Elegance Of The Hedgehog'

  • All being well, prime ministers will bring them to a close with some decisive late-night table-thumping in December.

    ECONOMIST: The Union pauses for breath

  • Elsewhere, Hertha Berlin were held 0-0 at home by Borussia Moenchengladbach and new Hanover boss Mirko Slomka got off to a losing start when his side were beaten 1-0 at mid-table Mainz while Stuttgart edged a 1-0 away win over Freiburg on Friday night.

    CNN: Robben snatches victory for Bayern

  • One Friday night in May, Zikmund-Fisher looked across the dinner table at 3-year-old Jesse and noticed that his right ear, which usually lies close to his head, was sticking out.

    CNN: But is it really an emergency? When to take a child to the ER

  • Put simply, this government thinks you get the best outcome if individual countries can go their own way, as far as is feasible, within a framework that gives a level playing field to companies and individuals, wherever they operate in the EU. Many around the table last night favour giving more powers to the centre - and more harmonisation.

    BBC: A good deal for the UK - or the euro?

  • The night before, around the dinner table, I was feted like a would-be conquering hero by the other guests at the ranch.

    FORBES: I Killed An Elk. Am I A Murderer?

  • All day Sunday, the maul continued - the stifling tension peaking as the last frame was whittled agonisingly down to the black, which was chased around the table until Taylor smoothly potted it at 11.23pm - to the delight of a late-night television audience of many millions.

    BBC: Classic sporting comebacks

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定