It is a masterly tour through a lifetime's research.

阅读这本书就像对苏珊毕生的研究进行了一次非凡之旅。

A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. It was a masterly piece of work.

很可惜，他签名时想道，是一篇杰作。

Of course, Rigoletto is an impressive opera, which was masterly performed and totally deserved an ovation.

当然，《弄臣》是一部令印象深刻的歌剧，它精湛的表演完全值得观众大声喝采。

" It is masterly, " said the inspector in an awed voice.

“这是高超的，”检查员用敬畏的声音说。

Some denounced it as unconstitutional, easily forgetting Hamilton's masterly defense of the bank, also not mentioned in the Constitution.

一些谴责它违宪， 很容易忘记汉密顿对银行的巧妙辩护，宪法也没有提到。

Victory by masterly inactivity was obviously better than conquest, and the slighter the wounds the quicker the healing.

以熟练的无所作为取得胜利显然比征服要好，而且伤口越轻愈合得越快。

Her description, for example, of the poet Martial returning to Spain from Rome, near the end of the book, is masterly.

如，她对马夏马返回西班牙的描述，在书的结尾处，是精湛的。

Eager to find material for stories, and bent on making them original in plot, if not masterly in execution, she searched newspapers for accidents, incidents, and crimes.

她渴望为她的故事找到素材，即使在写作技巧上无法做到娴熟老练，也一心一意要写出有独创性的情节，为此她在报纸上搜寻意外事件、偶发事故与罪案。

Brilliant and effective, powerful and masterly, as it may appear for a day or two, it must wither at nightfall;it cannot grow in the minds of others.

辉煌而有效， 强大而精湛， 就像它可能出现一两天一样，它必须在夜幕降临时枯萎； 它无法在别的脑海中成长。

This central message in Robert Gellately's masterly new book is an uncomfortable one for those who believe that Stalinism was an aberration, or a reaction to mistakes made by the West.

盖拉特莱最新的作品堪称大师之作。文中表达的中心思想会让一些感到不安。那些认为斯大林主义不合常规，或者是对西方所犯的错误作出的回应。

It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

伟大的马车夫最精明的直觉之一是发现美国想远离娱乐的速度比他们想去娱乐的速度还要快。

He was even ashamed of the ease with which the whole thing had been done: it reminded him, for an uncomfortable moment, of Lawrence Lefferts's masterly contrivances for securing his freedom.

他甚至为整件事的轻而易举感到羞愧：这让他在不安的时刻想起了劳伦斯·莱弗茨 (Lawrence Lefferts) 为确保他的自由而巧妙设计的装置。

Events finally demonstrated the futility of resistance, and Hamilton by good judgment and masterly arguments was at last able to marshal a majority of thirty to twenty-seven votes in favor of ratification.

事态最终证明了抵抗是徒劳的，而汉密顿凭借良好的判断力和巧妙的论证， 最终能够以 30 到 27 票的多数票赞成批准。

But Old Joe knew what he was doing and that was enough for them. He had conducted the retreat in masterly fashion, for they had lost few men and the Yankees killed and captured ran high.

不过老约心中有数，有了这一点他们就满足了，他以巧妙的方式指挥了这次撤退，因此损失很少，而北方佬的伤亡和被俘员却是相当多的。

Born on the frontier of Virginia, reared in a log cabin, granted only the barest rudiments of education, inured to hardship and rough life, he rose by masterly efforts to the highest judicial honor America can bestow.

他出生在弗吉尼亚州的边境， 在小木屋里长大，只受过最起码的教育， 习惯了艰苦和艰苦的生活，他凭借精湛的努力获得了美国可以授予的最高司法荣誉。

'My fingers, ' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression.

" 我弹起钢琴来，手指不像许多妇女技巧那么熟练，也不像她们那么有力和灵活，也没有她们弹得那么有表情。