The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell.
大幕拉开，最后一幕戏开演，贵族独自一人坐在铁窗后阴暗的牢房里。
Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs of a civilized society.
准时是文明社会中进行一切社交活动时必须养成的习惯。
又如：Kidnappers are rarely interested in animals, but they recently took considerable interest in Mrs Eleanor Ramsay's cat.
绑架者很少对动物感兴趣。最近，绑架者却盯上了埃莉诺·拉姆齐太太的猫。
有时，搭配学习的范围，还应扩展到句子，正如下句中，应当将There was tremendous excitement看作一个完整的语言模块。
The sea-bed was scoured with powerful nets and there was tremendous excitement on board when a chest was raised from the bottom.
他们用结实的网把海床搜索了一遍。当一只箱子从海底被打捞上来时，甲板上人们激动不已。作者: evaxiaofan 时间: 2011-1-13 09:58
Insuring public or private property is a standard practice in most countries in the world.
承办公共财产或私人财产保险是世界上大部分国家的正常业务。
此句中，insure property这组搭配使用了动名词形式在句中充当主语。
又如：Despite its immensity, it is both simple and elegant, fulfilling its designer's dream to create 'an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible'.
尽管此桥很大，但它的结构简单，造型优美，实现了设计者企图创造一个“尽量用细线条勾画出一个庞然大物”的梦想。
fulfilling...dream使用了fulfill的现在分词形式，充当状语。
又如：Newspapers exert such tremendous influence that they can not only bring about major changes to the lives of ordinary people but can even overthrow a government.
它们不仅可以给寻常人家的生活带来重大的变化，甚至还能推翻一个政府。
