于是自命名为"命运之子"的这支初出茅庐的四人乐队即开始学习唱法，并在当地的一些市民活动中演出。 Dubbing themselves Destiny's Child,the fledgling11 quartet began studying voice and performing at civic events in the local area.
马萨索伊特北美万帕诺亚格印第人的首领，他帮助朝圣殖民者并在普利茅斯签订了和平协议 Wampanoag leader who aided the Pilgrim colonists and signed a peace treaty with them at Plymouth.
他靠多做家庭作业，很快在班上名列前茅。 By doing extra homework, he soon got ahead of his class-mates.
茅台是高档酒之一。 Maotai is one of the top rated among them.
怕字当头，不干工作，小病大养，无病呻吟，这样的领导干部，索性请他好好休息，不然占着茅坑不拉屎怎么行？ As for those leading cadres who "put fear first", do not work, take long recuperation leaves for minor illnesses or moan and groan about imaginary illnesses, we may as well ask them to take a good long rest. How can we let them hang on to their posts without doing any work?
中国的茅台酒世界闻名，它的名字是根据它的产地而起的。 Chinese Maotai liquor is world renowned. It is named after the place where it is made.
亚香茅油从这种植物获得的淡黄色到棕色的芳香油，主要用于香水和一些驱虫剂及商用调味品 A pale yellow to brownish aromatic oil obtained from this plant, used chiefly in perfumery and also in some insect repellents and commercial flavorings.
如若他们怙恶不悛，继续胡闹，那时，全国人民忍无可忍，把他们抛到茅厕里去，那就悔之无及了。 But if they remain impenitent and keep up their wrongdoing, the people of China, having reached the end of their forbearance, will dump them on the muck heap and then it will be too late for repentance.
初出茅庐的报社记者总是向内行的老记者学习业务。 On a newspaper a cub reporter learns his job from an older reporter who knows the ropes.
韦茅斯主要来说是个度假胜地。 Weymouth is principally a holiday resort.
我们的房子是茅草盖的房顶。 Our house has a thatched roof.
泥满墙茅屋，小茅屋墨西哥和美国西南部由篱笆和涂抹物构成的茅草屋顶的小屋 A thatch-roofed hut made of wattle and daub found in Mexico and the southwest United States.
小木屋，茅舍简单建造的小房屋；木舍 A small, roughly built house; a cottage.
在海滨胜地之中，我仍然认为埃克斯茅斯弯是最好的。 Among seaside resorts, I still think Exmouth is tops.
茅草枯一种有机酸，c3h4cl2o2，用作一种除草剂，有选择地除去草和别的单子叶植物 An organic acid, C3H4Cl2O2, used as a herbicide that selectively kills grasses and other monocotyledons.
分布在美洲红树沼泽和河口三角洲一带的利珀属植物，半水生，鳞状树干；树液用于液剂；叶可用来盖茅草房；果实的种子可食。 any creeping semiaquatic feather palm of the genus Nipa found in mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries; its sap is used for a liquor; leaves are used for thatch; fruit has edible seeds.
清教徒殖民于普里茅斯。 The Pilgrim Fathers settled Plymouth.
布拉德福，威廉1590－1657美洲的英国清教徒殖民者。五月花密约的签署人和普利茅斯种植园的开拓者，被推选为30个一年任期的总督之一，领导殖民地度过了艰难的早期岁月 English Puritan colonist in America. A signer of the Mayflower Compact and a settler of Plymouth Plantation, he was elected governor for30 one-year terms and led the colony through its difficult early years.
法尔茅斯美国马萨诸塞东南部的一座市镇，在科德角西南。曾经是捕鲸业和造船业中心。现在是夏季避暑胜地和伍兹霍尔海洋图片研究所的所在地。人口27，960 A town of southeast Massachusetts on southwest Cape Cod. Once a whaling and shipbuilding center, it is now a popular summer resort and the site of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Population,27, 960.
斯特凌郡的——实际上是苏格兰的“新型城市”——格兰治茅斯的兴起并没有实在的必然性。没有哪个国王或寺院的主持扶持过它的形成。像托普西一样，没有人知道它是何时形成和发展起来的。 There is no real logic to Grange-mouth, the "boomtown" of Stirlingshire - and indeed, of Scotland. No king or abbot fostered her into being. Like Topsy she "just growed".
格比如说，我需要喝酒的时候我就喝威士忌，地地道道的苏格兰威士忌，可是吃饭的时候我习惯喝葡萄酒或者一大杯水，就像大多数西方人那样；而在中国吃饭的时候却上像茅台(指着他的酒杯)这样的烈性酒。 Far in stance, I drink whisky - genuine Scotch whisky when I need a drink, but at dinner I would have sine or just a glass of water as most people do in the West; whereas in China strong alcohol such as Maotai (points at his glass) is served at dinner.
羽翼未丰的企业；初学的滑雪者；初出茅庐的律师。 a fledgling enterprise; a fledgling skier; an unfledged lawyer.
我对这一问题茫然不解，几小时後终於顿开茅塞。 I puzzled over it for hours before it finally clicked.
哲瑞米是初出茅庐，所以我们并不指望他在这次比赛中表现得很好。 Jeremy's just being blooded, so we don't expect him to be very good at the game.
村民们撑起摇摇欲坠的茅棚。 The villagers shored up sagging huts.
他们把煤油浇在茅草屋上,准备放火。 They pour kerosene all over the thatch house, prepare to set it alight.
我们的邻居charlesalison船长明天将从朴次茅斯出海。 Our neighbour Captain Charles Alison, will sail from Portsmonth tomorrow.
以最近期数字比较，本港按人口平均计算的本地生产总值在亚洲位列前茅，仅次于日本。 The latest comparison showed that per capita GDP in Hong Kong was amongst the highest in Asia, next only to Japan.
占着茅坑不拉屎 Benefit from one's association
约有30种化合物已从绿茶的香气中鉴别出来，其中主要的有苯甲醇、苯乙醇、已烯醇、沉香醇、香茅醇和甲基水杨酸酯。 Approximately 30 compounds have been identified in the aroma of green tea, the major ones being benzyl alcohol, phenylethyl alcohol, a hexenol, linalool, geraniol and methyl salicylate.
“伯纳德，”达特茅斯夫人说：“这位仁慈的夫人和我正在讨论我是否外柔内刚。你的看法呢？” "Bernard," says Lady Darmouth, "this kind lady and I are just discussing whether I have an iron hand in a velvet glove. What do you think?"