中英惯用短语:
  • v.  失去保险金无索偿优惠(如因发生事故後索赔).   lose one's no-claim bonus, eg by making an insurance claim following an accident
  • n.  奥地利的青铜币, 德国的10便镍币, 格罗申, 德国经使用过的小银币   groschen
  • v.  她叙述说看见那持枪歹徒.   having seen the gunman
  • adj.  她尽管最近患中风, 但头脑仍很清醒.   Despite her recent stroke, she is quite rational
  • v.  她患病期间生意由她女儿代管.   When she fell ill her daughter took over the business from her
  • n.  她一度病危, 现在好多了.   She was on the danger list, but is much better now
  •   她在谢菲尔德大学攻读经济学.   She did economics at Sheffield University
  • adj.  她有个绝好的机会, 但没抓住.   opportunity, but she let it slip
  • n.  她曾来徵求意见.   She had come in quest of advice
  • n.  她统治过一个版图辽阔的帝国.   She once ruled over a vast empire
  • v.  她未想到这计谋反倒使她自食其果.   The scheme rebounded on her in a way she had not expected
  • v.  她现年八十五岁, 三度丧夫.   She's eighty-five and has buried three husbands
  • v.  宣誓证明目睹某事物   depose to having seen sth
  • n.  尝试做某事(通常为以往不试过的)   attempt sth (usu sth previously untried)
  •   已经,曾经   have
  • adj.  巴巴多斯是英国的殖民地, 现已独立.   Barbados was once a British colony, but now it's independent