中英慣用短語:
  • v.  他父親打算讓他工程師.   His father meant him to be an engineer
  • n.  他父母有意讓他牧師.   His parents intended him for the ministry, ie wanted him to become a minister
  • n.  他用生意活動作掩護幹著犯罪的勾.   He was using his business activities as a screen for crime
  • adj.  他瘦骨嶙峋的, 不了舉重運動員. Underweight is the most neutral *underweight最無褒貶含義   scrawny to be a weight-lifter.
  • v.  他的作品當傳諸後世.   His work must be preserved for posterity
  • v.  他的兒子拜地的鐵匠為師簽訂了師徒合同.   His son was indentured to the local blacksmith
  • v.  他的副手接替他了領導.   His deputy replaced him as leader
  • n.  他的小兒子是地足球隊的吉祥人物.   His little son is the mascot for the local football team
  • n.  他的最新劇本獲得地新聞界的熱情贊揚.   was given an enthusiastic write-up in the local press
  • n.  他的諷刺漫畫無情地挖苦了今的政界要人.   His cartoons mercilessly lampooned the leading politicians of the day
  • adj.  他的話很不得(出言不遜).   His language was most unseemly, ieabusive
  • adv.  他看來對此相當滿意.   He seems reasonably satisfied with it
  • n.  他胜任新聞廣播員的工作, 在於他有過記者的鍛煉.   His strength as a news-reader lies in his training as a journalist
  • v.  他行竊當場被抓住.   He was caught pilfering
  • n.  他衣袋裏的硬幣叮作響.   The coins jingled in his pocket
  • n.  他衣袋裏硬幣的叮聲.   the jingle of coins in his pocket