We haven't heard from him for weeks but we're still hoping for a letter.
我们已经有几个星期没有他的消息,但仍然盼望着他的来信。
Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.
别人为食而生活,我为生活而食。
It took him some time to connect the long rubber pipe to the air supply pipe that ran round the port, but at last it was done and as a result work was able to progress much faster.