那中英惯用短语:
| - [美]亚利桑那州(Arizona)的别名 Valentine State
- [美]坐在那里不声不响; 言语乏味; 木头木脑 sit like a bump on a log
- [美]西方皇后城(辛辛那提市 Cincinnati别名) Queen C-of the West
- [美]象母鸡的牙齿那样稀少; 非常罕见 as scarce as hen's teeth
- [美]路易斯安那州(Louisiana)的别名 Creole State , Pelican State
- [美]那好极了! That's (all)persimmons!
- [美俚](比那个)还要多一些; 还有别的, 还不止这些 and (then) some
- [美俚]当然; 一定是那样。 You bet !
- [美口]那是举手之劳, 那是再容易不过的事。 That's like taking a candy from a baby.
- [讽]不见得吧! 那未免太好了! Don't you wish you may get it? (=I wish you may get it.)
- [讽]那猪也会飞了; 除非出现奇迹; 除非公鸡下蛋 pigs might fly (if they had wings)
- [谑]唷, 别那么凶啊! Well, don't eat me!
- [谚]狮子没有人们画得那么凶猛; 传闻往往言过其实。 The lion is not so fierce as he is painted.
- [谚]聪明人做起糊涂事来, 那才糊涂透顶。 If wise men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance.
- [谚]魔鬼并不象人们所画的那么黑(指人们害怕或不喜欢的人并不象 一般说的那么坏; 事情没有传说的那么可怕)。 The devil is not so black as he is painted.
- ad.靠什么;靠那个 whereby
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