中英惯用短语:
  • v.  他们打算夏天结婚.   They plan to get married in the summer
  • v.  他们打把房子卖掉, 搬到乡下去.   They are selling their house and moving to the country
  • n.  他们打改革监狱制度的想法纯粹是空中楼阁.   Their ideas about reforming the prison system are just pie in the sky
  • adj.  他做了这道术题, 但答案错了.   got the answer wrong
  • adj.  他做事有条不紊是到家了.   He's methodical to the nth degree
  • adj.  他做这事是特别照顾.   He did it as a special favour
  • n.  他半年前就迷上了计机了.   His obsession with computers began six months ago
  • n.  他原来很著急, 我总把他的情绪稳定下来了.   He had been quite anxious, but I managed to settle his mind
  • n.  他受到忌妒他的竞争者的计而被迫离职.   He was hounded out of his job by jealous rivals
  • adj.  他只咕哝了一声是回答了.   His only answer was a grunt
  • n.  他可以作失败的那一类人吗?   with the failures?
  • n.  他可算是藏龙卧虎   he was earning a fortune, but nobody knew
  • n.  他在阅读方面不如别人, 但术却遥遥领先.   He's behind the others in reading but a long way ahead in arithmetic
  • adv.  他已答应把那工作交给我了(但事实上尚未这样做).   He virtually promised me the job, ie but did not actually do so
  • adj.  他想逃走的打完全吹了.   His plan to escape came badly unstuck
  • n.  他打到冬天就退休了.   He is going to retire next winter