You can't expect to learn a foreign language in a week.
别指望一个星期就能学会一门外语。
They have brought wine with them to the dinner party.
他们为晚宴带来了美酒。
The men of our family waded down through our flooded meadows with boathooks, in the hope of being able to grapple a corner of the raft and pull it out of the current towards our bank.