中英惯用短语:
  • v.  从加那利群岛运的新鲜番茄.   fresh tomatoes lifted in from the Canary Islands
  • v.  从北方各军基地起飞的轰炸机   bombers operating from bases in the North
  • n.  仓前地, 谷仓场, 谷仓前的院地, 畜棚场, 场   barnyard
  • v.  他一边轻快地走著, 一边用手杖在中旋转.   He walked along briskly, twirling his cane in the air
  • n.  他不承认和他秘书发生了关系, 但自是穴来风喽.   He's denied having an affair with his secretary, but of course there's no smoke without fire
  • adj.  他们总是著手参加聚会.   They always arrive at parties empty-handed
  • n.  他们打算改革监狱制度的想法纯粹是中楼阁.   Their ideas about reforming the prison system are just pie in the sky
  • n.  他们把房子里的东西都搬了.   They stripped the house bare, ie removed everything from it
  •   他们把所有的闲时间都用来看电视了, 还能学什麽东西呢?   How can they learn anything when they spend all their spare time watching television?
  • n.  他仰卧著观看天空.   He lay on his back and looked up at the sky
  • n.  他凌一脚把球踢入球门[把球截击到球场的另一边].   across the court
  • v.  他反手一击把我截击的中球打了回来(网球中).   He responded to my volley with a backhand, ie in tennis
  • adj.  他在空闲时绘画.   He paints in his spare time
  • n.  他妻子去世後他的生活很虚.   There has been a vacuum in his life since his wife died
  • n.  他思想上的一片茫然、 言语的洞无物.   the total vacuity of his thoughts, statements
  • v.  他把政敌排除一空.   He killed off all his political opponents