他中英惯用例句:
| - 他(满口)胡说八道.
codswallop. - 他们被迫签了合同.
They were coerced into signing the contract. - 他对改变政策提出了充分的理由.
He produced cogent reasons for the change of policy. - 他打电话时语无伦次.
He's not very coherent on the telephone. - 他们的叙述一致.
Their stories coincided. - 她在音乐方面的爱好与她丈夫一致[他们在音乐方面的爱好一致].
Their tastes in music coincide. - 他在大街上晕倒, 在送往医院途中死去.
He collapsed in the street and died on the way to hospital. - 他正在为赈济饥民募捐.
for famine relief. - 他脸色不好(苍白).
He has very little colour, ie is very pale. - 他的演奏没有什麽格调.
His playing lacks colour. - 先弄清他确实有钱再把汽车给他. trooping the colour => troop. one's true colours => true. under false colours => false. with flying colours => flying.
Don't let him have the car until you've seen the colour of his money. - 我不喜欢他们起居室的色调.
I don't like the colour scheme in their sitting-room. - 他是青年队队员(如足球俱乐部的青年队).
He plays for the colts, eg the junior team of a football club. - 他昏迷了几个星期.
He was in a coma for several weeks. - 他的生花妙笔与政治分析相得益彰, 使他的文章脍炙人口.
It is the combination of wit and political analysis that makes his articles so readable. - 他从利兹远道而来寻找工作.
He has come all the way from Leeds to look for a job. - 他们来到河边.
They came to a river. - 他们8点钟来到(如到我家).
at 8 o'clock. - 他一听说她病了就立刻赶来看她.
to see her as soon as he heard she was ill. - 他把家庭放在第一位.
His family comes first, ie is the most important thing in his life. - 他终於爱上了她.
In time he came to love her. - 他怎麽把腿弄折了呢?
How did he come to break his leg? - 他绝不会有什麽作为, 因为他太懒.
, he's too lazy. - 他是怎麽知道我们在什麽地方的呢?
How did it come about that he knew where we were? - 他讲了很长时间, 但他的意思没有人真正理解.
He spoke for a long time but his meaning did not really come across. - 解决贫穷和失业问题比所有其他政治问题都更重要.
Fighting poverty and unemployment should come before all other political considerations. - 什麽事也不能妨碍他晚上喝啤酒.
He never lets anything come between him and his evening pint of beer. - 他答应帮忙, 但我想不会有任何结果.
He promised to help, but I don't think anything will come of it. - 他在拳击比赛中总是很糟糕.
He always comes off badly in fights. - 後来才知道他一直在说谎.
It came out that he'd been telling a pack of lies. - 往他脸上泼些水--他很快就能醒过来.
Pour some water on his face he'll soon come round. - 他病得很重, 但医生预料他能康复.
He's very ill but doctors expect him to come `through.
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