艾德.傑克遜:竭盡所能的生存之路 Ed Jackson: Doing Everything He Can to Survive (上)

The former president died of cancer last week.
前任總統上星期因癌症過世了。

Thomas and Ned are good friends. The former has a talent for music, and the latter is good at painting.
湯瑪斯跟奈德是好友。前者很有音樂天分，而後者則工於繪畫。

Shirley was fed up with being stuck in an office all day long.
雪莉受夠了整天因公事纏身而卡在辦公室。

Most of the eggs Erin bought cracked when she dropped her basket.
大部分艾琳買的蛋在她的籃子掉到地上時都破了。

After hours of trial and error, Ted cracked the code.
經過好幾個小時的反覆試驗後，泰迪終於解開密碼了。
 

Dad won’t allow me to go skating today because of the dangerous cracks in the ice.
老爸今天不讓我去溜冰，因為冰上有危險的裂縫。

The police will spare no effort to crack down on the underworld.
警方將全力掃黑。

Six minus five is one. 
6 減 5 等於 1。

Six minus five equals one. 
6 減 5 等於 1。

The temperature is now minus 3 degrees.
現在氣溫是零下三度。

That company suffered a big loss because of poor management.
那家公司由於管理不善蒙受重大損失。

My father suffers from diabetes.
我爸爸患有糖尿病。

Small businesses often suffer significant losses during economic downturns.
小型企業在經濟衰退時期往往會遭受重大損失。

It took three weeks for Sam to recover from his sports injury.
山姆的運動傷害花了三個星期才康復。

The sex scandal caused terrible injury to Jill’s reputation.
這樁性醜聞讓吉兒的名譽嚴重受損。

The TV news helicopter flew above the traffic jam and reported the conditions to the public. 
電視新聞採訪用的直昇機飛到塞車現場上空，把路況向民眾報導。