51. | This feast of the god is kept twice a year. |
| 这个神的祭典一年举行两次。
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52. | The new airplane flies at twice the speed of sound. |
| 这种新式飞机以两倍于音速的速度飞行。
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53. | The tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours. |
| 潮水每24小时涨落两次。
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54. | Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day. |
| 格林尼治天文台的官员们每天两次派人矫正此钟。
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55. | Some of my acquaintances in the country come up to town once or twice a year to visit the theatre as a special treat. |
| 我在乡村有一些熟人,他们每年进城来看一回或几回戏,并把此看作一种特殊的享受。
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56. | It is a world of red sandy deserts ( hence its name -- the Red Planet), cloudless skies, savage sandstorms, chasms wider than the Grand Canyon and at least one mountain more than twice as tall as Everest. |
| 这是一个红色沙漠的世界(因而得名:红色行星),无云的天空,凶猛的沙暴,比大峡谷还宽的裂缝,起码有一座山有珠穆朗玛峰的近两倍高。
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57. | Once or twice , I recall, I experienced a moment of fear and it was fear bordering on panic. |
| 我回想起有一两次我感受到片刻的恐惧,这是几乎到了惊慌失措的程度的恐惧。
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58. | A work ill done must be twice done. |
| 【谚】马虎干活,准得返工。
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59. | Once bitten, twice shy. |
| 【谚】一次被咬,下次胆小。
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60. | He has been there at least twice . |
| 他至少去过那儿两次。
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