philadelphia
常考释义
Growing up in Philadelphia, in a very poor urban neighborhood, I was almost always the only Asian, let alone Chinese kid in school.
在费城一个非常贫穷的街道长大,我几乎一直是唯一的亚洲人,更别说还在学校的中国小孩子了。
He took the train from his home in Washington, D. C. , to Philadelphia and met Bill Swersky, a 59-year-old federal official .
他从华盛顿特区的家出发乘火车到费城去会见比尔-斯沃斯基,一位59岁的联邦官员。
My wife and I raced out of Philadelphia as if fleeting a pestilence, only to run into dense shore-bound traffic.
我和妻子像逃避瘟疫一样风驰电掣般驶出费城,结果却陷入前往海滨的稠密拥挤的车流之中。
Nick Gillespie, Reason: You were growing up in Philadelphia and you spent time on welfare. You were raised in a single-parent household.
NickGillespie,理性杂志:你在费城成长,靠社会福利度日,出生在一个单亲家庭,你的现状在哪些方面体现了你的成长情况?
At first, it seemed that these candidates would fight it out in a bitter nominating convention in Philadelphia.
起初,似乎这些候选人将争取在一个痛苦的费城会议的提名出来。
Also significant was the fact that in 1847, just one of ten Philadelphia blacks had been born in slavery.
同样重要的事实是,1847年在费城,只有十分之一的黑人是出生在奴隶制下。
Tarpangar: What I remember is having one of the most amazing weddings in the best hotel in Philadelphia because of him.
桃嘉:我记得因为他我们才在费城第一流的酒店举行了最令人难忘的婚礼。
"Everyone gets a piece of the action, " says DiBello, who has deep-set owlish eyes and a Philadelphia-accented baritone.
“每个人参与一部分行动”迪贝罗说,他具有深陷的猫头鹰般的眼睛,及宾州男中音的口音。
He gave up a trip to take a summer prep program at Widener University, south of Philadelphia, then entered as a freshman that fall.
他放弃了旅行的机会,参加了费城南部崴德那大学的一个预备项目,最终在那年秋季成为了那所大学的一名新生。
Viewed from across the Schuylkill river, the Philadelphia skyline reflects several years of hard-won economic transformation.
从舒约契尔河对岸望去,费城的天际线反映出了来之不易的几年经济改革成果。
William Penn's plan was that Philadelphia would be like an English rural town instead of a city.
威廉佩恩的计划是,76人将像一个英文农村城镇,而不是城市。
In other cases, like Philadelphia, protesters set up in a public park already occupied by a few dozen homeless.
而在其他一些地方,抗议者驻扎地原先就是流浪汉的据点,比如在费城,抗议者安营扎寨的公园原本是几十个流浪汉的领地。
But he continued to receive help from his mother's sister and a man who had worked at the Philadelphia store.
但他继续收到他母亲的姐姐和一个谁曾在费城人的帮助店里工作。
Philadelphia has been a great representative of American architecture since the 18th Century.
费城从十八世纪起就是美国建筑的绝佳代表。
I found in the shop the old man his father, whom I had seen at New York, and who, traveling on horseback, had got to Philadelphia before me.
在厂里我见到先前曾在纽约见过的那位长者,他是先于我骑马来到费城的。
In 1950 a Sunday school class in Philadelphia found a way of sharing their "trick or treat" loot with children around the world.
1950年,费城的一所主日学校的学生提出要让全世界儿童与他们一起共享万圣节前夜讨得的东西。
and said he, "I foresee that you will soon work this man out of his business, and mark a fortune in it at Philadelphia. "
他说,「我预料你很快就能在印刷业中追上基梅尔,并且在费城靠此致富。」
And I can't think of a better place to do it than at Masterman. (Applause. ) Because you are one of the best schools in Philadelphia.
我想不出除了在Masterman外,还有哪个地方更适合做这件事。(掌声)因为你们是费城最好的学校之一。
In May 1908 she organized church services in honour of her mother in Grafton, W. Virginia, and in Philadelphia where the family had lived.
1908年5月,她在西弗吉尼亚州的格拉夫顿及全家住过的费城为母亲举行了教堂纪念仪式。
A Tokay gecko hangs upside down in its terrarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
宾夕法尼亚州,费城自然科学学院,一只大壁虎把自己悬挂在培养箱顶面上。
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