经济学人下载:骑行在伦敦 车轮上的野心

We were reluctant to start the long trudge home.

我们很不愿意踏上如此漫长艰辛的回家之路。

Scientific institutions have been reluctant to take corrective action.

科学机构一直不愿作出更正。

2.seem to 似乎

I seem to fritter my time away at coffee mornings.

我似乎把时间全都浪费在咖啡早茶会上了。

He rubbed and rubbed but couldn't seem to get clean.

他擦了又擦，可就是擦不干净。

3.push for 急切、强烈地要求

In its push for economic growth it has ignored projects that would improve living standards.

在努力实现经济增长之时，它忽略了那些能提高生活水平的项目。

He and Dermott Reeve almost made a complete pig's ear of the final push for victory.

他和德莫特·里夫几乎把获胜的最后一把努力彻底搞砸了。