n. ' 谚语, 格言（精练的俗语, 或为普遍道理或为劝戒语, 如｀一个巴掌拍不响＇或｀不要把全部家当放在一处＇） short well-known saying that states a general truth or gives advice, eg `It takes two to make a quarrel' or `Don't put all your eggs in one basket
(亦作 eat one's dinners [terms]) 准备当律师, 在法律系学习 eat for the bar
不管怎样，他住在迪涅担任教职九年以后，当初成为那些小城市和小人们谈话的题材的闲话，都完全被丢在脑后了。 However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into profound oblivion.
在最近的一个早上，当人们发现迈克尔·h的时候，他正睡在兰开斯特郊区的圣保罗圣公会教堂的地板上。他已经有几个月没有理发和刮脸了，身边散落着从教堂配餐室拿来的金枪鱼的空罐头盒和汤。 Michael H. had not had a shave or haircut in months when he was found one recent morning, sleeping on the floor of St. Paul'S Episcopal Church in suburban Lancaster, next to empty cans of tuna and soup from the church pantry.
当她绘声绘色地描述那件事时，大家哄然大笑起来。 Everyone roared when she acted out the episode.
然而我要说的是，它们仍然不能确保圣洁，或甚至不能保证诚实。它们可以附庸于世故的俗人，附庸于玩世不恭的浪子。唉，当他们用它伪装起来时，就更增加了他们外表上的冷静、快活和魅力。 but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them.
昨晚小酒馆里发生了一段相当有趣的插曲。 There was a rather amusing episode in the pub last night.
当戴维表演完那段插曲时，全班同学都捧腹大笑。 All the classmates burst into laughter when David acted out the episode.
这一事件理所当然地堪称是国王间谍活动的的独一无二的史诗。 The episode could reasonably serve as a unique epic of royal espionage!
他被命名为当年的最佳运动员是他一生中的重要事件。 Was named the best athlete of the year is an important episode in his life.
“怕输”这个词是褒义还是贬义，笔者反复的思考，最后认为还是用中性词来形容它较为恰当。 IS "kiasu" a commendatory epithet, or a derogatoryone? After much deliberation, I have decided to label it as neutral.
“怕输”这个词是褒义还是贬义，笔者反复的思考，最后认为还是用中性词来形容它较为恰当。 IS "kiasu" a commendatory epithet, or a derogatory one? After much deliberation, I have decided to label it as neutral.
当本把牛奶器皿从金属托架上拿下来的时候，终于面色阴郁地说出了事情的大概。 Today, however, he was the epitome of gloom as he dropped off his wares from hiswire carrier. It took slow, careful questioning to extract the story from him.
一个理性的社会总应该在正当盈利与暴利剥削之间有一条界限。否则，索罗斯们的伎俩反而会被尊为最高智慧，理性则无立足之地矣。 A rational society should draw a line between legitimate profit-making and exploitative profiteering, lest the likes of George Soros be hailed as the epitome of wisdom while rationality gets booted out the window.
到了革命根据地，就是到了中国历史几千年来空前未有的人民大众当权的时代。 To come to the revolutionary bases means to enter an epoch unprecedented in the thousands of years of Chinese history, an epoch in which the masses of the people wield state power.
现在，当我们由于新的历史环境而进入于一个新的时代——无产阶级革命的时代，舍米契在这一切以后却引证斯大林在俄国资产阶级民主革命时期所写的那本小册子中的一个地方，这能有什么意义呢？ After all this, what significance can Semich's reference to the passage in Stalin's pamphlet, written in the period of the bourgeois-democratic revolution in Russia, have at the present time, when, as a consequence of the new historical situation, we have entered a new epoch, the epoch of proletarian revolution?
想当初，罗贝尔·塞纳利曾把巴黎圣母院比做埃费索斯的著名的狄安娜神庙——被古代异教徒奉若神明并使埃罗斯特拉图斯名字永留于世——，认为圣母院这座高卢人大教堂“在长度、宽度、高度和结构上都远胜一筹”。 How far it is from the epoch when Robert Cenalis, comparing Notre-Dame de Paris to the famous temple of Diana at Ephesus, *so much lauded by the ancient pagans*, which Erostatus *has* immortalized, found the Gallic temple "more excellent in length, breadth, height, and structure."
无产阶级在普遍激动的时代、在推翻封建社会的时期直接实现自己阶级利益的最初尝试，都不可避免地遭到了失败，这是由于当时无产阶级本身还不够发展，由于无产阶级解放的物质条件还没有具备，这些条件只是资产阶级时代的产物。 The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, these attempts necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone.
当我们面临惊恐的局面时，我们的大脑会释放出肾上腺素及其他化学物质。这些化学物质会导致我们心跳加速、血压增高(使血液流向我们的肌肉和大脑)、呼吸急促、消化速度放慢。我们会感到体内能量一阵快速涌流。 When confronted by an alarming situation,our brain releases adrenaline and other chemicals which causes our heart rate and blood pressure to increase(moving blood to our muscles and brain),our breathing to become faster,our digestion to slow down,and we feel a sudden rush of energy.
相当于，等同于 To be the equal of.
这种疾病的迅速蔓延使医疗当局感到忧虑不安。 The rapid spread of the disease is alarming the medical authorities.
但当她刚朝他迈步时，他马上警觉起来，举起猎矛，就要投射。这时朱庇特发现了并及时制止了这种忤逆行为，把母子二人从地上带走，放置在天上，成为大熊星和小熊星。 As she was about to approach, he, alarmed, raised his hunting spear, and was on the point of transfixing her, when Jupiter, beholding, arrested the crime, and snatching away both of them, placed them in the heavens as the Great and Little Bear.
发展现代武器所需的费用使双方负担过重，致命的原子武器的不断扩散理所当然使双方忧心忡忡，但是，双方却争着改变那制止人类发动最后战争的不稳定的恐怖均势。 Both sides over-burdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, and yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.
当飞机上的灯一下子熄灭时，旅客显得很紧张，但当机长告诉他们这只不过是一次电气故障，很快就会修好时，他们才放下心来。 The passengers became alarmed when the lights went out on the plane, but the captain put their minds at rest when he told them it was only a minor electrical fault and it would soon be repaired.
当今很多人把考试及格与受过教育等同起来。 "Nowadays, many people equate passing examinations with being educated."
当人们把少孩子多幸福当作一种不变的事实时，当人们考虑更多的是自由、金钱、个人时，所有的优惠措施将在这些思想观念面前显得苍白无力。 When people equate childlessness to happiness, when they care more about freedom, money and themselves, few incentives will be good enough to make them change their mind.
火警铃的叮当声惊动了全村的人。 The clang of the firebell alarmed the village.
下午两三点钟的时候，因当地处赤道附近又正是1月下旬的季节，所以气温高达90华氏度以上。 It was midafternoon, and being near the equator in late January, it was above 90 degrees.
同样，在赤道和极地海区，海水温度的季节变化也相当小。 Similarly, in equatorial and polar marine regions, ocean temperatures change very little with season.
当我跌倒的时候，我妈妈很惊慌。 My mother was alarmed when I fell over.
1953年，在姐姐伊丽莎白的加冕仪式上，玛格丽特帮皇家空军成员、已故父王的侍从武官汤森除去军服上的一个线头，这一瞬间的亲昵举动暴露了一个隐藏两年的秘密：22岁的公主与38岁的汤森相爱。当时汤森刚刚离婚，是两个孩子的父亲。 At her sister's 1953 coronation Margaret sparked a scandal by brushing a bit of lint off the uniform of Townsend, a member of the Royal Air Force and equerry to her late father. The momentary, intimate flick exposed a two-year-old secret:The princess, 22, and Townsend, 38 and the newly divorced father of two sons, were having an affair.
当年杜塞尔多夫的市民得知没有足够的合金来建成他们爱戴的詹·威廉王子的骑马雕像时，他们捐出了自家的银器。 Silver spoons were donated by the citizens of Dusseldorf when they learned that insufficient alloy was avail－able to complete their equestrian statue of popular prince Jan Wellem.
在稳定性和变化性之间通常很难找到适当的平衡。 It is often difficult to find a proper equilibrium between stability and variability.
当他拘谨地向前走的时候，他将注意力都集中在她的身上。 As he strode self-consciously on Alan focused his mind on her.