然中英慣用例句:
| - 但這並不是該諺語的真正意義。就字面意義講,“charity”指基督教徒之間的友愛、仁慈及自然感情。如果孩子們從小就學會去熱愛那些最接近他們的人,長大以後,就會去熱愛和幫助他們的同胞。換句話說,仁愛始自傢,但親不限於家庭。
I found myself being asked for subcriptions to so many good causes that it was costing me more than I could really afford, so now I give nothing to any of them. After all, charity begins at home. - 村民在星期日仍然穿傳統服裝。
Villagers still wear the traditional costume on Sunday. - 雖然那件化裝服僅僅是一條被單,但效果很好。
Though the costume consisted only of a sheet, it was very effective. - 嬰兒猝死的現象仍然不可解。
The phenomenon of cot death has yet to be explained. - 顯然沒有別的辦法,她衹好倒在那張破舊的長沙發椅上哭泣。
There was clearly nothing left to do but drop herself onto the shabby little couch and weep. - 他先咳嗽一下,然後開始講話。
He prefaced his remarks by a cough. - 然而衹有36%的人接受了精神方面的治療或咨詢。
Only 36% of them had received mental health treatment or counseling, SAMHSA noted. - 然而在另外一個同樣隨機選擇路人的調查中,我們先是提出一個更加難以做到的請求:在今後的兩年中作為感化中心的輔導員每周無償工作兩個小時。
For another random sample of passersby, however, we began with an even larger request: to serve as an unpaid counselor at the center for two hours per week for the next two years. - 當然了。
You can count on it. - 那會使她處之泰然。
That would put her in countenance. - 經那一問,陌生人突然驚慌失色。
At that question the stranger suddenly lost countenance. - 托尼的講話很受歡迎,即使在他意識到鈕扣遮布沒係好時,他仍然能夠保持鎮定。
Tony's talk was well received and he was able to keep his countenance even after he realized that his flies were undone. - 亨利顯出一副自信心十足的樣子,然而母親稍加警告他很快就感到窘迫難堪。
Henry appeared to be very sure of himself, but his mother soon put him out of countenance with a few words of warning. - 對這些人來說,用作在心理上抵消罪惡的任何懲罰都顯然無效。
For these individual all punishment are clearly useless as a psychological counteraction of crime. - 對這些人來說,用作在心理上抵消罪惡的任何懲罰都顯然無效。
For these individual all punishment is clearly useless as a psychological counteraction of crime. - 爸爸要我們放下手裏的東西和他坐到屋外的臺階上,然後他微笑着和藹地嚮我們解釋了“偽造”一詞的含義。
He asked us to put everything down and sit with him on the front step of our house. With a smile, he gently explained what the word "counterfeiting" meant. - 目的自然不外乎想得到能力,化渴望的無形動力為實質的金錢。
The object is, naturally, to acquire the ability to transmute the intangible thought impulse of DESIRE into its physical counterpart, money. - 然後你已站穩腳步,可以像當初碰到第一個反對訊號就歇手罷休一樣,輕易地化你的渴望為對應的實物或財物了。
Then you will be in position to transmute your DESIRES into their physical or financial counterpart as easily as you may lie down and quit at the first sign of opposition. - 雖然我本身以人民行動黨領導的政府為榮,心理卻渴望執政黨有一個強大的對手,看看在這樣的情況下,能夠産生什麽“協同效應”。
Granted that I personally see the current PAP-led government as one that I can feel proud of, there's still a nagging want to see what synergy can be evoked should there be a strong counterpart to PAP. - 當然,他們沒有美國學生那種能夠讓人眼前一亮的感覺。
Sure, they lack the polish of their US counterparts. - 然而法律制度並不能解决問題的根本所在,即黑人和拉美學生令人惋惜地落後於白人學生這一事實。
What the legal system cannot do, however, is address the root of the problem: the fact that black and Latino students still lag woefully behind their white counterparts. - 雖然過程緩慢,方式也很復雜,可英國也許能夠證明他們並非是法國總是害怕的那種美國勢力的潛在危險。恰恰相反,他們是與美國潮流抗衡的力量。
In very gradual, complex ways, Britain may prove to be, not the Trojan horse of American influence which France has always feared, but, on the contrary, a counterpoise to the American tide. - 一個十幾億人口的國傢不容易自華盛頓的雷達幕上消失。二十年來中國多半被看做對莫斯科的製衡力量,蘇聯解體後中國就顯得雖然龐大卻無關宏旨。現在,中國經濟起飛其本身就有資格被看做一個力量。
It's not easy for a nation of more than a billion people to fade from Washington's radar screen. Seen mostly as a counterweight to Moscow for 20 years, China seemed a giant irrelevancy after the demise of the Soviet Union. Now, China's economic boom will make it a power in its own right. - 我雖然愛我的祖國,但我不愛同胞們。
Though I love my country, I do not love countrymen. - 然後她們動身到農村去。
Then they set out for the countryside. - 她竟然辦到了讓總統同意接受采訪
She pulled off a great coup in getting the president to agree to an interview - 反政變對一個通過政變上臺的政府進行的突然顛覆活動
A sudden overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'閠at. - 他雖然生命垂危,但仍然勇敢地與死亡作鬥爭。
He fought death courageously though his life was draining away. - 事態依自然進程發展。
Events took their natural course. - 辯論的方向忽然改變了。
The course of the argument suddenly changed. - 當然有的。
Of course there is. - 當然啦。
Of course I can.
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