一中英惯用例句:
  • 爱因斯坦是一个超出其同代人的人。
    Einstein was a man who towered above his contemporaries.
  • 他应该是位不错的老师，因为在我的同班同学当中，好些人不但能讲一口流利的华语，还会写文章。
    Lao shi must have been a good teacher, because a number of my contemporaries became fluent in both spoken Mandarin and written Chinese.
  • 然而，当这一代华文知识分子的精神追求随着意识形态的破灭而破灭，当他的同道们在遭受摧残后成批地消沉退隐，或转身投向名利场，郭宝崑经历了一个怎样的内省过程，他如何咬断脐带浴火重生？
    However, after they were beaten and their intellectual and ideological struggles were shattered, many of Kuo Pao Kun's contemporaries either retreated into oblivion or channelled their energy into making money and achieving fame.
  • 我认识一位曾经风流一时的老妇人，过去生活遗留给她的只有一个女儿。据她同时代的人说，她女儿几乎同她母亲年轻时长得一样美丽。
    I once knew a former woman of easy virtue of whose past life there remained only a daughter who was almost as beautiful as the mother had once been, or so her contemporaries said.
  • 狄更斯与萨克莱属于同一时代。
    Dickens was contemporary with Thackeray.
  • 第二个事件和第一个事件发生在同一时代。
    This second event was contemporary with the first.
  • 一本对同时代的人作评论的小说
    A novel that is a comment on contemporary lawlessness.
  • 今天的中国是历史的中国的一个发展；
    Contemporary China has grown out of the China of the past;
  • 失业已成为当代社会的一个严峻的现实。
    Unemployment has become one of the hard facts of contemporary society.
  • 人口过快增长是当今世界面临的一个十分严重的问题。
    Excessive population growth is an extremely serious problem facing the contemporary world.
  • 他的那部论述当代文学的书也顺便提到了古代文化中的一些风俗习惯。
    His book on contemporary literature also glances at the customs of ancient cultures.
  • 一个明目张胆的藐视法庭案。
    A flagrant case of contempt of court.
  • 我对他不屑一顾[瞧不起他的为人]。
    I look on him/his behaviour with contempt.
  • 我们要鄙视一切反动派。
    We should treat all reactionaries with contempt.
  • 那是对朋友玩弄的一出可鄙的把戏。
    That was a contemptible trick to play on a friend.
  • 坏蛋，坏家伙一个粗鄙的，声名狼藉的人
    A contemptible or disreputable person.
  • 一个卑鄙无耻的人
    A person regarded as contemptible.
  • 一个十分可恶，可耻的家伙
    A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person.
  • 因为他做了一件可鄙的事情，会员们都责难他。
    The members censured him since he had done a very contemptible thing.
  • 因为他做了一件可鄙的事情，会员们都责难他。
    The member censure him since he have do a very contemptible thing.
  • 至于那些老生常谈的人生目标，诸如物质占有、功成名就、舒适享受等等，在我看来都不值一顾。
    The trite objects of human efforts--possessions,outward success,luxury--have always seemed to me contemptible.
  • 特别可鄙的是南方白人教堂也采取隔离黑人的态度，这些白人教堂显然希望进入一个“纯白”的天堂。
    Particularly contemptible was the Jim Crow attitude of the southern white churches, which evidently looked forward to a “lily white” heaven.
  • 可鄙的缺乏勇气；一个弱小的，卑微的，可鄙的生灵，一个小人物，一个仅仅是无关紧要的……已经崛起并轻蔑的与天地的权威抗挣-乔纳森·爱德华兹。
    a contemptible lack of courage; A little, wretched, despicable creature, a worm, a mere nothing...that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth- Jonathan Edwards.
  • 害怕知识分子被看作理智的倡导者，这是知识分子对知识和道德价值的最终贬低。在炮火袭击下畏缩尚可理解，而面对一个需要教导（也可从中学习）的世界却当懦夫则是卑鄙的。
    The fear of intellectuals to be seen as advocates of reason is the final treason of the clerks. To be cowardly under fire is understandable, but to cower when there is a world to be taught (and to learn from) is contemptible.
  • 她轻蔑地笑了一声。
    She gave a contemptuous laugh.
  • 他带著不屑一顾的样子把它扔了。
    He threw it away with a contemptuous gesture.
  • 原意指对一个下级的男子和少年的带有侮蔑性的称呼；通常在生气时使用。
    formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger.
  • 英国方面，彭玛斯顿勋爵也大表不满，认为香港是"一个杳无人烟的荒芜小岛"，不足以代替通商条约。
    Palmerston was equally dissatisfied with Hong Kong, which he contemptuously described as 'abarren island with hardly a house upon it', and refused to accept it as the island station that had been demanded as an alternative to a commercial treaty.
  • 他是一个难对付的人。
    He is a difficult man to contend with.
  • 我们必须同一切错误思想做斗争。
    We must contend with all kinds of wrong ideas.
  • 在上一场战争中普鲁士和奥地利争夺的焦点是什么？
    What did Prussia and Austria contend about in their last war?
  • 他们声称生物林业给环境带来的危害将和益处一样多。
    They contend that bioforestry has as much potential for environmental mayhem as for environmental good.