measured against the lofty expectations of two years ago, mr obama's record is at best mixed.

these lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once more around lambs.

他从前见过的那种圈猛虎的高墙，现在却圈着羔羊。

coupled with lofty gold prices, you can understand why obtaining one of these tantalizing coins is a difficult proposition.

以高尚的黄金价格的，你可以理解为什么获得这些诱人的硬币之一，是一个困难的命题。

wildly popular with her students, she manages education like a career, with lofty ambitions of scaling the hierarchical ladder.

深受学生欢迎的她把教学当成事业经营，希望自己在职场上平步青云。

match black taper edition jeans, the whole individual seems to be highly lofty.

搭配着黑色窄版长裤，整个人显得极为修长。

by forcing entry into the mud-fortress home of a pushtun, with its lofty buttresses and loopholes, they dishonour his property.

强行进入一名普什图人的泥堡式房屋，最终只剩下高高的墙壁和枪眼，他们令普什图人的财产权蒙辱。

still, i hate the idea that my kids might be so awed by such people that they consider these lofty positions out of reach.

不过，我依然不喜欢我的孩子过于敬畏那些高官显贵，以致于相信这种位置对自己来说根本遥不可及。

in a world where very few individual companies can command such a lofty rating, this transmutation makes such instruments highly appealing.

在一个几乎没有个人公司能得到这样高评级的环境下，这样的转变是这些工具极具吸引力。

known as lofty oaks association, the company grew rapidly representing the funeral industry nation wide.

称为崇高橡树协会的该团体作为全国丧葬业的代表发展迅速。

he said china is willing to enhance cooperation with the unesco to jointly advance the lofty career concerning mankind's future.

中国愿意与联合国教科文组织加强合作，共同推动涉及人类未来的崇高事业不断取得进展。

but for the rest of this lecture i shall stay at the lofty heights of abstractions.

但今天的讲座，我仍将停留在高度抽象的层次上。

people who don't read poetry think it is only about lofty subjects. in writing about these topics, they are trying to achieve depth.

不读诗的人会认为诗都是关于那些玄虚的话题，他们试图通过写这样的主题，达到某种深度。

what i learned from these people and others was that i couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very lofty goals.

我从她们之中学到的是我不能因为一个人没有达到崇高的目标就认为他们失败。

although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it could be seen that she was of very lofty stature.

这妇人，虽然叠成了一堆，却仍看得出，是个极高的大个子。

round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but i never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful.

沿着花园有一堵高高的围墙，可我从没想到去围墙那边有什么东西，我身边的一切太美好了。

it was that of a lofty mountain, capped with snow.

这是一座顶端积雪的高山。

a woman will rarely have difficulty finding a mate, even if he does not measure up to all her lofty ideals.

很难找到配偶的女性是少见的，即使男性不能完全符合她的高傲的理想标准。

hope a person with lofty ideals contrasts seriously, learn one by one, the defect in checking him job to live and inadequacy.

中文夫妻笑话：近闻上海女子择偶宣言，事关重大。望有志之士认真对照，一一学习，检查自己工作生活中的缺点和不足。

but the networks must negotiate some important hurdles first if such lofty predictions are to come true.

如果这些遥不可及的预言将要成真的话，对网络而言，首先要讨论一些主要的障碍。

a teacher should not be too "lofty and pure of mind" when dealing with students.

老师和学生相处时，不应过于“清高”。

being a university student, it is our social responsibility to be moral and lofty.

既然当大学生，就应该下决心用几年时间把自己锻炼成为一个道德高尚的人。