如今

Trousers are not blouseed over the shoes today.

如裤子不下垂盖住鞋口。

Honesty seems to be rather at a discount today.

如似乎很吃不开。

Five pounds doesn’t go very far these days.

如5英镑买不了多少东西。

The rules of etiquette are not so strict nowadays.

如的礼仪规则已不那么严格了。

With their plans now in tatters, they gave up.

如计划失败，他们也放弃了。

Now I'm back to the cheapo approach to fitness.

如，我又回到低价健身法。

Their children have all flown the nest now.

如他们的孩子都已长大离家了。

Girls nowadays don't wear their heart on their sleeves.

如女孩子不轻易流露自己的感情。

Trying to find a job nowadays is no joke.

如个工作可不是件容易的事。

Peanuts now outrank cotton as the chief crop.

如花生是比棉花更重要的主要产品。

Very little forest is left unexplored nowadays.

如,未被勘测的森林是少之又少了。

Everybody sends emails these days. Letterwriting has become a thing of the past.

如大家都发电子邮件，写信早已过时了。

Homosexuals in public life are now coming out of the closet.

公众人物中的同性恋者如正逐渐公开承认。

He’s always spouting off about the behaviour of young people today.

他总是没完没了如年轻人的行为。

Many shoes nowadays are made of plastic or similar stuff.

如, 许多鞋子是用塑料或类似的材料制成的。

The royal family is now being caricatured as savagely as it has ever been.

皇室人员如也像以往那样,常被粗暴无礼画成漫画。

The spirit of fair play is sadly missing from the sport these days.

如的体育运动缺少遵守规则的精神，令人遗憾。

"People, especially youngsters don't seem so polite these days."

"如人们,尤其是年青人好象不那么讲礼貌了。"

Many students now anathematise “Bologna” as a capitalist plot.

如许多学生咒骂“博洛尼亚”是资本家的阴谋。

These words have fallen into desuetude.

这些词如已经不用了。