居中英惯用短语:
| - adj. 人是群居的动物. Man is a social animal
- n. 今晚我们在起居室生火吧. Let's light a fire in the living-room tonight
- vi. 从外国移来, 迁移, 移居入境, 移来 immigrate
- n. 从山上居高远望, 日出景象蔚为奇观. The sunrise seen from high in the mountains was a tremendous spectacle
- v. 从英国移居到澳大利亚寻找工作. Cf 参看 immigrate. emigrate from Britain to Australia to find work
- v. 从邻居的窗户可看到我家的花园. Our garden is overlooked by our neighbours' windows, ie They can see into our garden from their windows
- n. 他以上帝自居(控制人与事). He likes to play God, ie behave as if he could control people and events
- n. 他们以前住在苏格兰, 後来移居南方了. They used to live in Scotland but they moved down south
- n. 他们决定在她的公寓里同居. They've decided to shack up together in her flat
- 他们分居前婚姻早已破裂了. Their marriage was washed up long before they separated
- n. 他们在悬崖上居高临下, 能看到来来往往的船. From their vantage-point on the cliff, they could watch the ships coming and going
- prep. 他们在毗邻而居期间只见过两次面. They only met twice during the whole time they were neighbours
- adj. 他们婚後十年决定分居了. After ten years of marriage they decided to separate
- 他们有意移居美国. They're thinking of moving to America
- adv. 他们现在分居了. They are now living separately
- 他们花言巧语哄得邻居同意, 便把不喜欢的客人打发到他们那里去了. They palmed their unwelcome guests off on the neighbours
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