n. ' 諺語, 格言（精練的俗語, 或為普遍道理或為勸戒語, 如｀一個巴掌拍不響＇或｀不要把全部傢當放在一處＇） 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]) 準備當律師, 在法律係學習 eat for the bar
不管怎樣，他住在迪涅擔任教職九年以後，當初成為那些小城市和小人們談話的題材的閑話，都完全被丟在腦後了。 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.
在最近的一個早上，當人們發現邁剋爾·h的時候，他正睡在蘭開斯特郊區的聖保羅聖公會教堂的地板上。他已經有幾個月沒有理發和颳臉了，身邊散落着從教堂配餐室拿來的金槍魚的空罐頭盒和湯。 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.
當她繪聲繪色地描述那件事時，大傢哄然大笑起來。 Everyone roared when she acted out the episode.
然而我要說的是，它們仍然不能確保聖潔，或甚至不能保證誠實。它們可以附庸於世故的俗人，附庸於玩世不恭的浪子。唉，當他們用它偽裝起來時，就更增加了他們外表上的冷靜、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.
昨晚小酒館裏發生了一段相當有趣的插麯。 There was a rather amusing episode in the pub last night.
當戴維表演完那段插麯時，全班同學都捧腹大笑。 All the classmates burst into laughter when David acted out the episode.
這一事件理所當然地堪稱是國王間諜活動的的獨一無二的史詩。 The episode could reasonably serve as a unique epic of royal espionage!
他被命名為當年的最佳運動員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.
“怕輸”這個詞是褒義還是貶義，筆者反復的思考，最後認為還是用中性詞來形容它較為恰當。 IS "kiasu" a commendatory epithet, or a derogatoryone? After much deliberation, I have decided to label it as neutral.
“怕輸”這個詞是褒義還是貶義，筆者反復的思考，最後認為還是用中性詞來形容它較為恰當。 IS "kiasu" a commendatory epithet, or a derogatory one? After much deliberation, I have decided to label it as neutral.
當本把牛奶器皿從金屬托架上拿下來的時候，終於面色陰鬱地說出了事情的大概。 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.
一個理性的社會總應該在正當盈利與暴利剝削之間有一條界限。否則，索羅斯們的伎倆反而會被尊為最高智慧，理性則無立足之地矣。 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.
到了革命根據地，就是到了中國歷史幾千年來空前未有的人民大衆當權的時代。 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.
現在，當我們由於新的歷史環境而進入於一個新的時代——無産階級革命的時代，捨米契在這一切以後卻引證斯大林在俄國資産階級民主革命時期所寫的那本小册子中的一個地方，這能有什麽意義呢？ 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?
想當初，羅貝爾·塞納利曾把巴黎聖母院比做埃費索斯的著名的狄安娜神廟——被古代異教徒奉若神明並使埃羅斯特拉圖斯名字永留於世——，認為聖母院這座高盧人大教堂“在長度、寬度、高度和結構上都遠勝一籌”。 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."
無産階級在普遍激動的時代、在推翻封建社會的時期直接實現自己階級利益的最初嘗試，都不可避免地遭到了失敗，這是由於當時無産階級本身還不夠發展，由於無産階級解放的物質條件還沒有具備，這些條件衹是資産階級時代的産物。 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.
當我們面臨驚恐的局面時，我們的大腦會釋放出腎上腺素及其他化學物質。這些化學物質會導致我們心跳加速、血壓增高(使血液流嚮我們的肌肉和大腦)、呼吸急促、消化速度放慢。我們會感到體內能量一陣快速涌流。 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.
相當於，等同於 To be the equal of.
這種疾病的迅速蔓延使醫療當局感到憂慮不安。 The rapid spread of the disease is alarming the medical authorities.
但當她剛朝他邁步時，他馬上警覺起來，舉起獵矛，就要投射。這時朱庇特發現了並及時製止了這種忤逆行為，把母子二人從地上帶走，放置在天上，成為大熊星和小熊星。 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.
發展現代武器所需的費用使雙方負擔過重，致命的原子武器的不斷擴散理所當然使雙方憂心忡忡，但是，雙方卻爭着改變那製止人類發動最後戰爭的不穩定的恐怖均勢。 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.
當飛機上的燈一下子熄滅時，旅客顯得很緊張，但當機長告訴他們這衹不過是一次電氣故障，很快就會修好時，他們纔放下心來。 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.
當今很多人把考試及格與受過教育等同起來。 "Nowadays, many people equate passing examinations with being educated."
當人們把少孩子多幸福當作一種不變的事實時，當人們考慮更多的是自由、金錢、個人時，所有的優惠措施將在這些思想觀念面前顯得蒼白無力。 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.
火警鈴的叮當聲驚動了全村的人。 The clang of the firebell alarmed the village.
下午兩三點鐘的時候，因當地處赤道附近又正是1月下旬的季節，所以氣溫高達90華氏度以上。 It was midafternoon, and being near the equator in late January, it was above 90 degrees.
同樣，在赤道和極地海區，海水溫度的季節變化也相當小。 Similarly, in equatorial and polar marine regions, ocean temperatures change very little with season.
當我跌倒的時候，我媽媽很驚慌。 My mother was alarmed when I fell over.
1953年，在姐姐伊麗莎白的加冕儀式上，瑪格麗特幫皇傢空軍成員、已故父王的侍從武官湯森除去軍服上的一個綫頭，這一瞬間的親昵舉動暴露了一個隱藏兩年的秘密：22歲的公主與38歲的湯森相愛。當時湯森剛剛離婚，是兩個孩子的父親。 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.
當年杜塞爾多夫的市民得知沒有足夠的合金來建成他們愛戴的詹·威廉王子的騎馬雕像時，他們捐出了自傢的銀器。 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.
在穩定性和變化性之間通常很難找到適當的平衡。 It is often difficult to find a proper equilibrium between stability and variability.
當他拘謹地嚮前走的時候，他將註意力都集中在她的身上。 As he strode self-consciously on Alan focused his mind on her.