中英慣用例句:
  • 那年他答應了一個朋友為他收割一片坡地上的玉米。可是收完自己的莊稼,爺爺的小收割機就纍得上氣不接下氣,垮了。
    He had promised to harvest a few ribbons of corn that wound around the hills on a friend's farm, but after harvesting his own corn, Grandpa's little corn picker coughed, sputtered and quit.
  • 格羅特先生開始經商。
    Mr Grate just entered on a business career.
  • 開始能掌握這一科。
    He is just begin to get a grip of the subject.
  • 開始瞭解這門課。
    He is just beginning to get a grip on the subject.
  • 棲木類鳥,大部分都比較小並離地面較近,有四個腳趾便於抓緊樹枝;其中很多是鳴鳥;孵出的幼鳥不能獨立生活。
    perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless.
  • 士兵們全都是強勇敢的。
    The soldiers are hard grit.
  • 到雜貨店去了。
    She has just popped over to the grocer's.
  • 幼小的瑪格麗特抱怨說:“我學會'約剋'這個詞的拼法,以後卻再也用不着了”。
    " I have only just learned how to spell ' York'," the young princess Margaret was said to grumble," and now I am not to use it anymore."
  • 堅硬的金屬條;用堅硬的塑料做成的桌子;強得像鐵棒一樣的宮廷守衛。
    a rigid strip of metal; a table made of rigid plastic; a palace guardsman stiff as a poker.
  • 猜猜,我纔見到誰了?
    Guess who I saw just now?
  • 暴徒說完話,他的對手就猛然揍他,把他打倒到溝裏。
    After the bully made that remark, his opponent his out straight from the shoulder and knocked him into the gutter.
  • 王平:除了說的遊泳館,還有田徑館、球類館、體操館、舉重館、拳擊館、武術館等十幾個室內訓練館,還有許多室外訓練場。
    Wang Ping: Except the indoor swimming pool as we mentioned just now, we have gymnasiums for track and field, gym, boxing,and wushu. In addition, we have many outdoor training fields.
  • 王平:除了說的遊泳館,還有田徑館、球類館、體操館、舉重館、拳擊館、武術館等十幾個室內訓練館,還有許多室外訓練場。
    Wang Ping: Except the indoor swimming pool as we mentioned just now, we have gymnasiums for track and field, gym, boxing, and wushu. In addition, we have many outdoor training fields.
  • 纔送人上火車站去了。
    Ha has been seeing someone to the station.
  • 站起身,他就揮手讓我坐着。
    I had no sooner stood up than he waved me to remain sitting.
  • 來自波士頓福塞斯研究所的一個研究小組發現,口腔內有一些細菌可以防止口臭,也就是口腔異味的産生,而另一些的作用則好相反。
    Some bacteria protect against halitosis, the formal name for really bad breath, while others cause the pungent odor, says a team of researchers from The Forsyth Institute in Boston.
  • 被小偷拿去了錢包。
    I've just had my handbag picked.
  • 這塊手帕上放過玫瑰花,上面沾有玫瑰花香。
    This handkerchief smells of the roses which have been lying on it.
  • 她與教練和傢人住在建成的公寓裏。公寓位於班剋斯敦城郊外的工薪區。
    She holed up with her handlers and family in a just built apartment complex in the working? class suburb of Bankstown.
  • 硬石,金石一種曾被認為在硬度上不可穿透的石頭
    A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
  • 安剛剛離開。
    An has left just.
  • 一觸到愛德蒙的手,他就覺得再也無法忍受了,於是便一下子衝出屋子去了。
    Scarcely, however, had he touched Edmond's hand than he felt he had done all he could do, and rushed hastily out of the house.
  • 我剛從夏威夷回來。
    I've just come back from Hawaii.
  • "小淘氣"的媽媽海迪在幾個月之前去世,它活了15年。
    Scampy' s mother,Heidi,had died at fifteen,just a few months before;
  • 我們聽說他與一位女繼承人結了婚。
    We have just hear of his marriage to an heiress.
  • 含有人類基因的雙蠃旋結構分子將數據儲存在四種化學基數上,即通常人們所說的a,t,c、g,其存儲能力非常之大,科學家也是開始予以關註。
    The double helix molecule that contains human genes stores data on four chemical bases -- known by the letters A, T, C and G -- giving it massive memory capability that scientists are only just beginning to tap into.
  • 她想,此人來到哈福德郡,怎麽就要進城有事。於是她開始擔心了;
    She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire;
  • 現在,我希望在此談談香港成功的兩個關鍵因素。這兩個因素也具體闡明了我纔所說的「一切運作如常」。
    I would like to talk about two critical success factors for Hong Kong which also serve to highlight what I have just been saying about 'business as usual'.
  • 這種活動結束幾天以後,我纔重點提到的那些車輛和設備不見了。那個地點又恢復了常態。
    Days after this activity, the vehicles and the equipment that I've just highlighted disappear and the site returns to patterns of normalcy.
  • 劫持是飛機起飛後發生的。
    The hijack take place just after the plane take off.
  • 每衹後腳上有形似梳子的毛蜘蛛。
    spider having a comb-like row of bristles on each hind foot.
  • 要離去,一個陌生人拽我的袖子。
    A stranger plucked at my sleeve as I was leaving.