2.Times are changed and we must, to use the homely metaphor, cut our coat according to our cloth.
代变了, 因此, 用朴实的隐喻来讲, 我们必须“适应环境”。
3.She quite forgot Hurstwood's presence at times, and looked away to homely farmhouses and cosey cottages in villages with wondering eyes.
她有连赫斯渥的存在都忘了,只顾用惊奇的目光看着远处那些乡村中简朴的农舍和舒适的小屋。
4.But their surfaces bear witness to homely labor: Topping the tallest stone, once part of a trilithon, is a tenon—half of a mortise-and-tenon joint borrowed from woodworking.