In outline, the story is one of urban development.

概括来说，这是一个关于城市发展的故事。

But he succeeds in outlining the size of the challenge.

但他成功地勾勒出了这一挑战的规模。

So this is the same theme that we saw in outline A.

所以它跟我们在提纲 A 里看到的主题一样。

The glass objects of this style were elegant in outline, although often deliberately distorted, with pale or iridescent surfaces.

从外形上讲，虽然故意扭曲，表面灰暗闪光，但总体而言温文尔雅。

It was behind this that we eventually crouched while Holmes in a whisper outlined his intentions.

正是在这背后， 当福尔摩斯低声概述他的意图时， 我们最终蹲了下来。

Use the outline style in your textbook and remember it should be no more than two pages long.

在教科书中使用大纲样式，并记住它的长度不应超过两页。

With hindsight, I realized, I could have picked a more professional-looking uniform in which to outline my plan.

事后看来， 我意识到，我本可以选择一套看起来更专业的制服来概述我的计划。

I believe that promoting bicycle usage is an effective way to solve the transport problem, and in this essay, I will outline the reasons why.

我认为, 促进自行车使用是解决交通问题的有效途径, 在这篇文章中, 我将概述原因。

Well, in outline it defined the position of Great Britain towards the Triple Alliance in the event of the French fleet gaining complete ascendancy over Italy in the Mediterranean.

其纲要规定了，在法国海军于地中海对意大利占完全优势时，大不列颠在三国同盟中的立场。

It was an almost perfect cone of snow, simple in outline as if a child had drawn it, and impossible to classify as to size, height or nearness.

那是一个近乎完美的雪锥， 轮廓简单得就像是孩子画的一样， 无法根据大小、高度或远近来分类。

It is about a foot in diameter, round and bossy in outline, with a neatly arched opening near the bottom, somewhat like an old-fashioned brick oven, or Hottentot's hut.

它直径约一英尺，外形圆润而霸道，底部附近有一个整齐的拱形开口，有点像老式的砖炉，或霍屯督人的小屋。

He was young—perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty—tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.

他很年轻——大概在二十八岁到三十岁之间——身材高大，身材苗条；他的脸吸引了眼球；那是一张希腊人的脸，轮廓非常纯正：挺直的，经典的鼻子；相当雅典的嘴巴和下巴。

I do not attempt an answer in this place. It would need a volume of a different character from this one to indicate even in outline the practical measures in which they might be gradually clothed.

我不会在这个地方尝试回答。需要一本与这本书性质不同的书来简要说明他们可能逐渐穿上衣服的实际措施。

The way this has occurred is, in outline, as follows: Speaking generally, adjectives and common nouns express qualities or properties of single things, whereas prepositions and verbs tend to express relations between two or more things.

这种情况的发生方式大致如下：一般而言，形容词和普通名词表达单个事物的性质或属性，而介词和动词倾向于表达两个或多个事物之间的关系。

The large limbs reach out with equal boldness a every direction, showing no weather side, and no other tree has foliage so densely massed, so finely molded in outline and so perfectly subordinate to an ideal type.

粗壮的树枝向各个方向伸展，没有风雨的一面，没有其他树的叶子如此密集，轮廓如此精细，完全符合理想类型。

Pearl cumuli over the higher mountains—clouds, not with a silver lining, but all silver. The brightest, crispest, rockiest-looking clouds, most varied in features and keenest in outline I ever saw at any time of year in any country.

高山上的珍珠积云——云，没有一线希望，但全是银色。这是我一年中任何时候在任何国家见过的最亮、最脆、看起来最像岩石的云，特征最多样，轮廓最清晰。

Chastened, world-weary, remorseful, the strain on her nerves had preyed upon her flesh and bones, and she appeared smaller in outline than she had formerly done, though Sue had not been a large woman in her days of rudest health.

受过磨练、厌世、懊悔，她神经上的压力已经侵蚀了她的肉和骨头，她的轮廓看起来比以前更小了，尽管苏在她最健康的日子里并不是一个大块头的女人。

In the remainder of the present lecture I shall state in outline the view which I advocate, and show how various other views out of which mine has grown result from modifications of the threefold analysis into act, content and object.

在本讲的其余部分，我将概述我所提倡的观点，并展示我的观点是如何从对行为、内容和对象的三重分析的修改中得出的。

Although so unconventional when full-grown, the sugar pine is a remarkably proper tree in youth — a strict follower of coniferous fashions — slim, erect, with leafy branches kept exactly in place, each tapering in outline and terminating in a spiry point.

糖松虽然在成年后非常规，但在年轻时是一棵非常合适的树——严格遵循针叶树的时尚——纤细、直立，多叶的树枝保持在适当的位置，每根树枝的轮廓都逐渐变细，末端有一个尖尖的点。

I promised myself that I would do something for them one of these days, and formed a plan in outline for bestowing a dinner of roast-beef and plum-pudding, a pint of ale, and a gallon of condescension, upon everybody in the village.

我向自己保证，这些天我会为他们做点什么，并制定了一个大纲计划，为村里的每个人提供一顿烤牛肉和李子布丁，一品脱麦芽酒和一加仑的屈尊俯就。