A tall, lean biologist with a Quaker seaman's beard and monomaniacal dedication to bringing back diagnostic images, Calambo kidis was tantalized by the reports from the satellite.
I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be softened by the lapse of time, and a merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.
This is The English We Speak from the BBC and we're finding out about the phrase 'let sleeping dogs lie', meaning to 'leave a situation as it is and avoid causing trouble or restarting an old problem'.
里是BBC地道英语栏目,我们在" let sleeping dogs lie" 个词组,它的意思是" 让事情该怎样就那样,免得惹出是非或重新起旧的纷争" 。