中英慣用短語:
  • n.  多見於房屋或其他供人住或工作的建築物(如辦公樓)中   stairs
  • adj.  大多數蜜蜂和黃蜂都是群昆蟲.   Most bees and wasps are social insects
  • n.  大量多國移民聚的地方   place where large numbers of immigrants from many different countries live together
  • n.  天主教堂區神甫的所.   house where a Roman Catholic parish priest lives
  • n.  天空, 天神處, 最高天, 上帝的住處, 蒼天, 太空, 宇宙, 至高無上, 九天   empyrean
  • n.  女修道院, 姑庵, 尼庵, 尼姑庵   nunnery
  • n.  女神, 蛹, 美麗的少女, 寧芙, 美少女, 若蟲, 住在山林水澤的仙女, (某些昆蟲的)蛹, 於山林水澤的仙女   nymph
  • n.  她一生離群索居.   She's been a loner all her life
  •   她到法國住後很快就學會了法語.   She soon picked up French when she went to live in France
  • n.  她和丈夫已分居了.   She and her husband have parted, ie started to live apart
  • n.  她在國外住多年之後, 突然在倫敦重新露面了.   After living abroad for years, she suddenly surfaced again in London
  • v.  她多次遭到鄰的冷遇.   She was repeatedly snubbed by her neighbours
  • adj.  她很傲慢, 從不與鄰說話.   She's so snooty; she never speaks to the neighbours
  • n.  她想把樹籬剪低些, 可是鄰不同意.   She wanted to cut down the hedge, but her neighbour objected
  • v.  她所選擇留的國傢(非其祖國而由其自擇留的國傢).   her adopted country, ie not her native country but the one in which she has chosen to live
  • adj.  她的新真是不同凡響.   Her new house is certainly out of the ordinary