1·My uncle is a ceremonious former ambassador.
我叔叔是个一丝不苟的前大使。
2·The former ambassador to Saudi Arabia blamed carping from the Israeli lobby.
这位前沙特阿拉伯大使此前因对以色列游说微词而遭到谴责。
3·Among these convicted were a prominent television presenter, a former ambassador, a lawyer and a doctor.
这几名罪犯包括电视节目主持人，前大使，律师和医生。
4·"We in Britain are a confused and unhappy people, " says television commentator Peter Jay, a former ambassador to the United States.
电视评论员、前驻美大使彼得·杰伊说，“我们英国人是一些对前途困惑的不愉快的人。”
5·The former ambassador spent a short time in several Chinese cities and then went home and published a twelve-page article in Life entitled "Report to the American People on China."
这位前大使先生在中国几个城市转了一圈，很快就返回美国，在《生活》杂志上发表了一篇长达十二页的文章，标题是《向美国人民报告中国见闻》。
6·Veteran diplomat Ryan Crocker, a former ambassador to Iraq and Pakistan, has been nominated to be the new Ambassador to Afghanistan, replacing retired Army Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry.
驻伊拉克和巴基斯坦前大使的资深外交官赖安。克罗克，接替退役美军将军卡尔。爱肯伯瑞为新任驻阿富汗大使。
7·“I’m under no illusions of the difficulty of the challenge, ” the former ambassador to Pakistan and Iraq told them. “If Iraq was hard, and it was hard, Afghanistan in many respects is harder.”
“这不是错觉，我正在面对一项艰巨的挑战，”前任驻巴基斯坦和伊拉克大使告诉他：“如果伊拉克问题是艰难的，巴基斯坦也是，那么阿富汗在许多方面要更甚于这两者。”
8·The former US ambassador to Ireland has behaved most undiplomatically by describing his two years in Dublin as "very, very boring."
前美国驻爱尔兰大使称他在都柏林度过的两年“非常非常无聊”，这是不符合外交习惯的。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
9·"I should have sent him as ambassador to Great Britain or maybe a former British colony," he said.
“我本该派他去英国或者一个前英国殖民地担任大使的。”他说道。
10·Gordon Streeb, a former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, recalled Mark's devotion to the animals. "When I was there, he would take the airplane up in the dark."
戈登·思特利布是前美国驻赞比亚大使，他回忆了马克对野生动物执着的爱，“我在赞比亚的时候，他会晚上驾机巡逻。”