一中英惯用例句:
  • 五彩芋一种五彩芋属美国热带地区植物，因其白、绿、粉红或红等各色有装饰作用的叶子而被广为培植
    Any of various tropical American plants of the genus Caladium widely cultivated for their ornamental foliage, variously patterned in white, green, pink, or red.
  • 第二天一早醒来，他发现在这段时间里，船已经开到加莱。
    When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais.
  • 这个渡船主同时过着双重的生活，他有两个妻子，一个在加来，另一个在多佛尔。
    The ferry captain was leading a double life; he had two wives, one in Calais and one in Dover!
  • 期望失败了，野心落空了；企图捕获加莱失败；许多失意的诗人都成为嗜烟教师终老一生；他所有的努力都白费了。
    disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions; their foiled attempt to capture Calais; many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers; his best efforts were thwarted.
  • 一种包含煤甘石的药液；用来治疗皮肤搔痒或者轻度的皮肤过敏。
    a liquid preparation containing calamine; used to treat itching or mild skin irritations.
  • 托莱多的对手加西亚有六英尺三英寸高，是一位有着西班牙人长相的秘鲁前总统。他在竞选中运用华丽的辞藻试图掩盖他那多灾多难的1985年到1990年的总统任期，在他上次任期内，秘鲁国内充斥了贪污腐败、游击队暴力事件、食物短缺和通货过度膨胀。
    Garcia, a 6-foot-3 Spanish-looking former president, used flowery language to overcome memories of his calamitous 1985-90 presidency, marred by corruption, guerrilla violence, food shortages and hyperinflation.
  • 偷袭珍珠港（对美军来说）是一场毁灭性的灾难。
    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity.
  • 乐观者于一个灾难中看到一个希望，悲观者于一个希望中看到一个灾难。英国谚语
    An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. English Proverb
  • 对于这地势很低的海滨地区，飓风将是一场灾难
    A hurricane would be a calamity for this low-lying coastal region.
  • 人的一生中迟早都会遇到灾难。
    A man may meet with some great calamity some time or other in his life.
  • 今年五月暴动使印尼华裔蒙受最严重的一次挫伤。
    The May riots this year was the worst calamity to have befallen the Chinese Indonesians in recent memory.
  • 我们有过“大民主”的经验，就是“文化大革命”，那是一种灾难。
    We have had some experience with "great democracy" in the form of the "cultural revolution", which was a calamity.
  • 铹一种寿命期短的、人工合成的放射性超铀元素，从锎中生成，有质量从255到260的同位素，半衰期从几秒钟到三分钟；原子序数103
    A short-lived, radioactive synthetic transuranic element produced from californium and having isotopes with mass numbers255 through260 and half-lives of a few seconds to three minutes; atomic number103.
  • 似铁砧物一组卡尺中夹放被测物体的固定腭夹
    The fixed jaw in a set of calipers against which an object to be measured is placed.
  • 建议在跑步之前做一下健美操来放松一下肌肉
    Calisthenics is recommended to relax the muscles before a run.
  • 书中编排有游戏型的动词健美操，介绍了形形色色的语言客观存在，还谈到了词语间的游离现象，正是它们丰富了我们的言语，使之富于变化，并形成了现在这样一个富有生气的交际工具。
    There are entertaining verbal calisthenics here, colorful facts about language, and many excursions among the words that keep our speech the rich, flexible, lively means of communication that it is.
  • 岸上的一些人对着船上的人大声叫喊,但是他没有听见。
    Some people on the bank called out to the man in the boat, but he did not hear them.
  • 前天一位老朋友来找过我。
    An old friend called on me the day before yesterday.
  • 信中说要他到警察局去一下。
    In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
  • 咱们一起去夜校吧,到时候我来叫你。
    Let's go to the night school together, and I'll call for you.
  • 总统号召公民们为了国家的统一而努力工作。
    The president called on the citizens to work hard for national unity.
  • 他最小的儿子在一九一四年应召入伍。
    His youngest son was called up in 1914.
  • 水芋生于北温带的一种沼泽植物（水芋水芋属），长有小的、紧簇的、部分包在伸展的白色花苞内的浅绿色花朵
    A marsh plant(Calla palustris) of the North Temperate zone, having small, densely clustered, greenish flowers partly enclosed in a spreading white spathe.
  • 这辆`出租汽车'是一架小型瑞士飞机,叫`皮勒特斯.波特'。
    The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.
  • 我们认为玛莎在作文比赛中荣获一等奖是我们集体的光荣。
    We call it an honour to our collective that Mather got the first prize in the composition contest.
  • 弗朗克.洛德.莱特不把他自己看成是一个艺术家。
    Frank Lloyd Wright did not call himself an artist.
  • 要求还清一笔债款
    Call in a debt
  • 一个愤怒的电话
    An irate phone call.
  • 邀请一个专家
    Call in a specialist.
  • 一定称呼我法兰克人。
    Do call me Frank.
  • 他们俩就这样一呼一应。
    Every call was echoed.
  • 那天早晨我被一个突然的来访者缠住了。
    I was detained by an unexpected caller that morning.