Privately owned corporation

privately ['praivitli]

adv. 私下地，不公开地;私自;背地里;

owned

v. 拥有；承认（own的过去分词）

corporation [,kɔrpə'reʃən]

n. 公司;法人;社团，团体;〈口〉（凸出的）大肚子;

corpor身体，团体+ation表名词 → 公司，团体

Right.

好。

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

等到认识人生，已经一半过去了。

On our way home that night I looked down and saw that the necklace was not around my neck any more. I told Pierre. We rushed back to the palace and looked for it.We asked everyone there if they had found a necklace, but without luck. We couldn't find it;

那天晚上在回家的路上，我低头一看，发现项链不再挂在我的脖子上了。我告诉了比尔。我们马上赶回王宫去寻找。我们询问了那儿的每一个人，问他们是不是拾到了一条项链。可是，真倒霉。我们找不到那条项链；它丢失了。