zhòngyīngguànyònglìgōu:
  • xīn zài yān de jiào shòu wàng liǎo zài niǔ 'ěr xià chē zhí bèi dào liǎo 'ài dīng bǎo
    The absent-minded professor forgot to get off at Newcastle and was taken on to Edinburgh.
  • xīn zài yān
    His mind was elsewhere.
  • men kàn chū láijīn wǎn xīn zài yān
    They saw that tonight his mind was elsewhere.
  • dìng xīn zài yān héng héng chī wān dòu shì yòng dāo de
    You must be forgetting yourself héng you don t eat peas with a knife!
  • dìng shì xīn zài yān chī wān dòu shì yòng dāo de
    You must be forgetting yourself you don't eat peas with a knife.
  • xué yān
    Great gains are not won except by great risks.
  • xué yān
    Great gain is not win except by great risk.
  • yòu tiānrén men kàn jiàn yòu míng de xīn zài yān de lǎo shī zài shàng zǒu de zhǐ jiǎo zhí zài jiē gōu lìng zhǐ jiǎo cǎi zài rén hángdào shàng
    A notoriously absent-minded professor was one day observed walking along the street with one foot continually in the gutter, the other on the pavement.
  • bié wèile dàn 'ér jiào rén tóu héng héng shā yān yòng niú dāo
    Send not for a hatchet with which to break open an egg.
  • xīn zài yān demáng rán de xiàn chén qiě wèi zhù dào zhōu wéi de qíng kuàng huò huó dòng dechū shén de
    Deep in thought and heedless of present circumstances or activities; preoccupied.
  • shì fǒu céng zài kāi huì shí xīn zài yān , shì fǒu céng zài diàn nǎo qián měng rán qīng xǐnghuò céng zài kàn diàn shì jié shí kùn juàn dǔn ?
    Even space out during a meeting, jerk awake while at your computer, or snooze through part of a TV show?
  • xué yān
    How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?
  • zhōng guó rén yòu lǎo huà xué yān
    There is an old Chinese saying, "How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?"
  • dàn guǒ qīn shì lěng huān tiǎo huò zhě xīn zài yān de rén 'ér huì gǎn dào tài 'ài huò zhě quē mèi
    But if the father is cold, critical or absent, the daughter will tend to feel she's not very lovable or attractive.
  • guò 'ér néng gǎishàn yānwáng yáng láoyóu wèi wǎn
    It's never too late to mend.
  • guò 'ér néng gǎishàn yān
    It is good that mend.
  • yànxiǎo zuòshā yān yòng niú dāo
    Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.
  • cóng wèi yān néng luò
    He that never ride never fall.
  • xué yān
    Nothing ventured. Nothing gained.
  • xué yān
    Nothing ventured, nothing had.
  • xīn zài yān suí biàn zuò liǎo huí suí biàn jiù shuǎi liǎoshèn zhì lián zuì jiǎn dān de wèn hòu dōuméi yòu
    replied offhand, his mind a million miles away; she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter.
  • yòu rén ruò chuānzhuó tài gān jìng de fāng chèn lǐng dài chū huì huò zhāo dài huìhuò shì liǎng tiān guā chū shāng huì bié rén jué huì cuò dàngchéng shì xīn zài yān de tiān cái
    The man who appears at a party or a reception in a not-too-clean plaid shirt, without tie, or at a business meeting with a two-days growth of beard will never be mistaken for an absent-minded genius.
  • xīn zài yān huí .
    He answered me in a rather preoccupied manner.
  • xīn zài yānzhèng xīn xiǎng zhe bié de shì qíng
    His mind switched off, he was preoccupied with another subject.
  • zuó tiān zài shàng xīn zài yānméi yòu rèn chū
    You were too preoccupied to recognize me in the street yesterday.
  • zuó tiān zài gōng gòng chē zhàn shàng xīn zài yānméi yòu zhù dào 。"
    You were too preoccupied to notice me at the bus stop yesterday.
  • shuō huà shí xīn zài yān
    As he spoke my thoughts wandered.
  • zhēn shì diǎn xíng de xīn zài yān de jiào shòu xiān shēng
    You is really the typical absent-minded professor.
  • xīn zài yān luò zài zhuō shàng
    He left the pen on the table unawares.
  • xué yān
    Nothing venture, nothing win.
  • yào xīn zài yān
    Don't let your thougnts wander.
  • dàn shì de yín 'ài shǐ rén bài huài bìng bēi jiàn yān
    but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.