中英慣用例句:
  • 不管怎麽,這可是新娘新郎特別的夜晚,我們想盡量辦得熱鬧些。
    Anyhow it is a special evening for the bride and bridegroom. We'd like to make the party as festival as possible.
  • 管宴席的便把新郎叫來,對他:“人們待客總是先上好酒,等客人喝足了,再把次的拿上來。可你卻把好酒留到現在纔端出來。”
    He hailed the bridegroom and said,"Everyone serves the best wine first, and waits until the guests have drunk freely before serving the poorer sort; but you have kept the best wine till now."
  • “我很想留下。”木匠,“但我還有許許多多的橋要建造。”
    " I'd love to stay on," the carpenter said, "but, I have so many more bridges to build."
  • 告訴他說話要謹慎。
    Tell him to put a bridle on his tongue.
  • 說話要謹慎。
    Bridle your tongue.
  • 我告訴妻子話要謹慎。
    I tell my wife to put a bridle on her tongue.
  • 我告訴妻子話要謹慎
    I told my wife to put a bridle on her tongue
  • 他至少要在孩子面前話謹慎些。
    He might at least try to bridle his tongue in front of the children.
  • 戴然後開始訓練,也就是,使它熟悉馬具——馬鞍、繮繩,最後是騎在它背上的騎手。
    He's then broken in, which means introducing him to tack - saddle, bridle, and eventually a rider on his back.
  • 私人間的嫉妒有百害而無一利,但公衆的嫉妒卻還有一點好處,因為它就像陶片放逐法,可除去那些位高專權者,所以它對其他大人物亦是一種製約,可使他們循規蹈矩。
    There is yet some good in public envy, whereas in private, there is none. For public envy, is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men, when they grow too great. And therefore it is a bridle also to great ones, to keep them within bounds.
  • 我有急事,請長話短
    Please be brief because I am in a hurry.
  • 我不贊成人們有時使用暴力是合乎情理的。
    I hold no brief for those who say that violence can be justified.
  • 簡單地(對你), 我不同意。
    Be brief (with you), I disagree.
  • 簡單地(對你),我們不能接受這樣苛刻的條件。
    To be brief (with you), we can't accept such harsh terms.
  • 李先生從他的公文包裏取出兩封信,他的一位在中國的朋友這兩封信很急。
    From his briefcase, Mr Li takes out two letter which a friend of him in China told him were urgent.
  • 他有許多要明的,但又沒時間開長會,所以衹好把一份長匯報削短成半小時的簡介。
    He had a lot to explain, and no time for more than a short meeting. Thus a lengthy briefing had to be telescoped into half an hour.
  • 開會之前,秘書長先給代表們簡單地了一下情況。
    Before the meeting, the general secretary gave the representatives a briefing.
  • 開會之前,我先給你簡單一下情況。
    Before the meeting, let me give you a briefing.
  • 我們在一所看似棧房的屋子聆聽軍官講解匯報,過後纔聽那所房子其實是民房。
    The visitors were given a briefing by an officer in a construction that looked like a barn.
  • 布勞恩博士在同一次聽證會上作證,我們的措施是訪問者在訪華前,對所有出訪人員進行嚴格的反情報教育,並嚮訪問者介紹中國的最新背景材料。
    At the same hearing, Dr Browne testified, Our policy is to provide 100 percent of our travelers to the PRC with a counter-intelligence threat awareness briefing including the latest information regarding the country as possible.
  • 昨天國防部長切尼和鮑威爾將軍的簡報發人深省。二人都警告死亡將繼續增加。他們警告薩達姆可能暗藏驚人之筆。
    Yesterday's briefing by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell was sobering. Both man warned that the death toll will continue to rise. They warned that Saddam Hussein may have surprises up his sleeve.
  • 美國國務卿曾經在幾天前嚮安理會展示了情報部門搜集的新證據,證明伊拉剋為了準備迎接檢查而對一些地區進行了清理,轉移了很多關於被禁止的武器計劃的證據,也就是關於在照片中被分析傢認為是正在一個軍火庫清理化學污染物的卡車,對此我想明一下,那個地區是一個公開的地區,當然,也是伊拉剋預計我們要進行檢查的地點,我要明的是,這兩張衛星照片相隔了幾個星期,報告中所謂的轉移武器的行動很有可能衹是例行公事,是為了迎接即將到來的檢查所做的正常工作而已。
    The presentation of intelligence information by the US Secretary of State suggested that Iraq had prepared for inspections by cleaning up sites and removing evidence of proscribed weapons programmes. I would like to comment only on one case, which we are familiar with, namely, the trucks identified by analysts as being for chemical decontamination at a munitions depot. This was a declared site, and it was certainly one of the sites Iraq would have expected us to inspect. We have noted that the two satellite images of the site were taken several weeks apart. The reported movement of munitions at the site could just as easily have been a routine activity as a movement of proscribed munitions in anticipation of imminent inspection. Our reservation on this point does not detract from our appreciation of the briefing.
  • 能否請您簡單一下貴方的商品銷售明書呢?
    Can you explain your sale literature to us briefly?
  • 在這本書裏衹簡要概述了這段歷史;她簡要地做了回答;簡單地吧,我們有個疑問;簡而言之。
    the history is summed up concisely in this book; she replied briefly; briefly, we have a problem; to put it shortly.
  • 楊榮文准將曾過:共患難能讓人們團结起來。
    Brigadier-General George Yeo once said, braving storms together will make a people more united.
  • 在波傳播中,波束的強度,與振幅的平方成正比,用它來衡量輻射的強弱。對於光波束來,它表示光的亮度;而對於聲波來,它表示響度。
    In wave propagation, the intensity of a beam which is proportional to the square of the amplitude of oscillation. It is a measure of the strength of the radiation. With light waves, intensity is an indication of brightness and in sound it is a measure of loudness.
  • 證人作證他在布萊頓第一次見到被告。
    The witness said in evidence that he first met the accused in Brighton.
  • 你老是布賴頓是個好地方,然而你必須以自己親身的感受發表意見,但我認為那是一個乏味的地方。
    You always praise Brighton and you must speak as you find, but I think it’s a dreary place.
  • 他在數學方面很有才能。
    He is reputedly brilliant at mathematics.
  • 帕特裏夏是一位才華橫溢的小傢,她的小常常獲得成功。
    Patricia is a brilliantly talented novelist and she has hit the bull's eye often in the past.
  • 耶穌對傭人:“往缸裏倒滿水。”他們便把缸灌滿了水。
    Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water", and they filled them to the brim.
  • 我們必須勸會議主席轉而支持我們的觀點。
    We must bring the chairman around to our point of view.