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And then, with all the things she needed bought she would leave the market for the streets of the town to spend another hour in the way she liked best: looking in furniture shop windows.
然后，带着所有她需要的已购物品，她会离开市场，去镇上的街道上，以她最喜欢的方式再呆一个小时：看看家具店的橱窗。
在我们熟悉的用法中in the way表示“挡路，妨碍”
Mind out ─ you're in the way there!
请让一让——你挡着路啦！
'You're standing in the way,' she said. 'Would you mind moving aside'.
“你挡着道了，”她说，“麻烦你让一下。”
Fred tried to get to the door, but the table was in the way.
弗雷德试图走近大门，可是桌子挡住了去路。
I will visit you on Sunday, if there is nothing gets in the way.
如果没有什么妨碍的话，我将在星期日去拜访你。
'We wouldn't get in the way,' Suzanne promised. 'We'd just stand quietly in a corner.'
“我们不会妨碍你的，”苏珊娜保证道，“我们就在角落里安安静静地站着。”
This table is too close to the door, it gets in the way.
这桌子放在门口太碍事了。
Don’t let your fear get in the way of your dreams. 不要让你的恐惧阻碍你的梦想。
Her shyness often gets in the way of new friends.
她的害羞经常妨碍她交新朋友。
Your car is parked in the way of my driveway.你的车挡住了我的车道。
I left them alone, as I felt I was in the way.
我留下他们单独在一起，因为我觉得我碍他们的事。
She had a job which never got in the way of her leisure interests.
她有一份从来不会影响她的业余爱好的工作。
I can’t see the TV. You are in the way. 我看不见电视。你挡住了我的视线。
Although he thought he was helping us prepare the dinner, he was in the way。虽然，他认为他在帮我们准备饭， 但只是碍手碍脚的。
We cannot allow dogmatism to stand in the way of progress.
我们不能允许教条主义阻碍进步。
He wouldn't allow emotions to get in the way of him doing his job.
他不会让情绪妨碍自己的工作。
The British government would not stand in the way of such a proposal.
英国政府不会阻止这样一项提议。
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There is some similarity in the way they sing.
他们的演唱风格有点像。
The most noticeable effect of these changes is in the way people are now working together.
这些变化带来的最明显效果体现在人们现在一起工作的方式上。
She's not very consistent in the way she treats her children.
她对待孩子反复无常。
There was a lack of objectivity in the way the candidates were judged.
对候选人的评定缺乏客观性。
I don't see any vast turnarounds in the way we do business.
我认为我们的经营方式不会有任何大的改变。
There was elegance and simple dignity in the way he bore himself.
他举止优雅而庄重。
George Fodor points to other weaknesses in the way the campaign has progressed.
乔治·福多尔以运动开展过程中的其他不足为证。
There are qualitative differences in the way children and adults think.
孩子和成年人的思维方式有质的不同。
He is very much like his father in the way he speaks.
他说话的神气特别像他爸爸。
She cooks chicken in the way I like.
她以我喜欢的方法烹调鸡肉。
He solved the problem in the way I taught him.
他用我教的方法解决了问题。
He doesn’t speak the way I do.
他说话的方式跟我不一样。