妙语佳句:

原句:Here it's made of a little more than compacted earth

解析:make of:以 ... 为材料制作

I do not think we have any vase make of bamboo.

我想我们没有竹制的花瓶。

解析:a little more:稍多的

I'll thank you to be a little more polite.

你稍稍客气一点好不好？

原句:But with hardly any rain falling ,it suffered very little erosion over the centuries.

解析:suffer:通常指非自愿或被迫忍受各种痛苦、困难或不快，强调受到苦难。

She couldn't suffer criticism.

她受不了批评。

原句:Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives building it.

解析:hundreds of thousands:数十万的 ...

Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk.

有几十万人正处于危险中。

解析:lose life:丧命

He was in danger of losing life.

他有丧命的危险。

原句:a vast no man's land of deserts that stretch westward to the borders of central Asia.

解析:stretch to:延续

This contract will stretch to next month.

该项合同将延续执行至下个月。

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为了修建它成百上千的人付出了宝贵的生命。

这座城堡标志着中国长城的结束。

上期答案:

The rich resources also attracked a huge variety of birds,
But Mongolians don't have this place all to themselves.