中英惯用短语:
  • adv.  是否可以请您....   Perhaps you would be kind enough to..., ie a polite way of saying `Would you...?'
  • n.  是否太晚呢?'她问道.   Will it be too late?' she queried. `
  • adj.  是应将安乐死合法化?   Should euthanasia be made legal?
  •   是有利于发展社会主义生产力   Whether it would be beneficial to developing socialist productive forces
  •   是有利于增强综合国力   Whether it would be beneficial to enhancing the overall strength of the country
  •   是有利于提高人民生活水平   Whether it would be beneficial to raising people's living standard
  • adj.  是否穿礼服自便.   Formal dress is optional
  • v.  是否进行取决於部长.   The decision on whether to proceed lies with the Minister
  • n.  曲言(尤指用定的词语, 强调其反义的修辞法, 如 It wasn't easy `此事不易'意为It was very difficult`此事很难').   ironical understatement,esp using a negative to emphasize the contrary
  • adj.  最糟糕的是我都不清楚他们是收到了我的支票.   The worst of it is that I can't even be sure if they received my cheque
  • adv.  有关方面极力认新闻界最近的报道.   Recent reports in the press have been hotly denied
  • adv.  有定含义, 如`不很'   it has a negative meaning such as `not very' 若quite有主要重音, 与之连用的是表示程度的词(即其性质可有强弱或程度差别者), 则quite
  •   有很大价值, 直到令人满意的标准, 很好(用于定句)   up to much
  •   有远见, 有眼光(常用于定句)   see beyond one's nose (=see beyond the end of one's nose)
  • adj.  未受反驳的,未遭认的   uncontradicted
  •   板球运动中防守一方向裁判员询问击球手是出局的用语).   (used by the fielding side in cricket to ask the umpire if the batsman is out or not