一中英惯用例句:
  • 神话故事的惯用手法之一是凭借魔力改变形态。
    One of the favourite games in fairy tales is metamorphosis.
  • 自你上次见到她以来，她已完全变了一个样子。
    She's undergo quite a metamorphosis since you last see her.
  • 自你上次见到她以来,她已完全变了一个样子
    She 's undergone quite a metamorphosis since you last saw her
  • 任得州州长时的小布什六年来，小布什一直是得州的父母官，作为《得州月刊》的编辑，我得以观察其仕途官运的起起伏伏。
    George W.Bush during his years as governor of Texas For the six years that George W.Bush was governor of Texas I was editor of Texas Monthly, a position that allowed me to watch the stages of his political metamorphosis.
  • 这两个比喻放在一起很不相配。
    These two metaphors are mismached.
  • 一个比喻的类似用法
    The analogical use of a metaphor.
  • 这一词组几乎都是用在否定句中。
    The metaphor is nearly always used negatively.
  • 我有一个喜欢用的比喻，就是‘扶手’。
    The metaphor I like is that of handrails.
  • 我一直想不起来的名字；他们理解不了的隐喻
    A name that has always eluded me; a metaphor that eluded them.
  • 经常出现的一个隐喻，最终使这个词语产生了一个新意思（如：“她是一条蛇”原本可能是隐喻，但是经过多年使用已经不再是了，而是变成“蛇”这个字）。
    a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake').
  • 当然，巴黎已成为我人生中挑战自我并战胜自我的一个象征，现在只要我遇到困难，我就对自己说：如果我能够去巴黎，我就能去世界的任何地方。
    Certainly Paris became my metaphor for addressing life's challenges on my own. Now when I meet an obstacle I just say to myself: If I can go to Paris, I can go anywhere.
  • 与诸如（面向）对象和客户机/服务器等最新趋势不同，cbd不只是一种分布计算新花样，而是一种广泛的体系结构，支持整个生命周期计算的理念，包括设计、开发和部署。
    Unlike recent trends such as objects and client/server, it is not just another flavor of distributed computing, but an extensible architecture to support a full lifecycle computing metaphor, including design, development and deployment.
  • 第三类效用，即只在享用时才存在的快乐和只在执行时才存在的服务，除了可比喻为财富外，不能称为财富。对于财富这一概念来说，最重要的是可以被积累。
    Utilities of the third class, consisting in pleasures which only exist while being enjoyed, and services which only exist while being performed, cannot be spoken of as wealth, except by an acknowledged metaphor.
  • 在某一位置有个结尾；空间的或者隐喻性的。
    have end in a certain location; either spatial or metaphorical.
  • 从另一间房子里带给我那个盒子；把这封信带给老板。
    Bring me the box from the other room; Take these letters to the boss; also metaphorical, as in This brings me to the main point.
  • 反对（一项政策）等；它也有比喻义。
    protest, as against a policy; also metaphorically.
  • 修补上一个补丁；也用于隐喻。
    provide with a patch; also used metaphorically.
  • 拿着这只碗一会儿；他手里拿着一本书。
    Hold this bowl for a moment, please; also metaphorically: A crazy idea took hold of him.
  • 横梁支撑着屋顶；当我在横梁上时，他用一支手支撑我平衡。
    The beam holds up the roof; He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam; What's holding that mirror?; also metaphorically: Her efforts support us morally.
  • 他一向对玄奥的神学理论很感兴趣（有癖好）。
    The bent of his mind was at all times much to metaphysical theology.
  • 他应该调整他的生活，使他能够在生活中获得最大的快乐，这种答案跟如何度周末的答案一样地实际，不象形而上的问题，如人生在宇宙的计划中有什么神秘的目的之类，那么只可以作抽象而渺茫的答案。
    The answer that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, than a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.
  • 至于第二个问题，争点不是人生的目的是什么，而是人生的目的应该是什么；所以这是一个实际的而不是形而上学的问题，对于“人生的目的应该是什么”这个问题，人人都可以有他自己的观念和价值标准。
    As far as the second question is concerned, the point of dispute is not what is, but what should be, the purpose of human life, and it is therefore a practical, and not a metaphysical question. Into this question of what should be the purpose of human life, every man projects his own conceptions and his own scale of values.
  • 心灵学形而上学的一支，研究灵魂心灵生命和心灵与身体功能之间的关系
    The branch of metaphysics that studies the soul, the mind, and the relationship of life and mind to the functions of the body.
  • 一元论一种形而上学理论，认为现实世界是一个整体，所有存在的事物可以被归结或描述为一个单一的概念或系统
    The view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system.
  • 超然科学法国怪诞学派关于一种哲学或科学概念，致力于研究超然于形而上学的存在物，倾向于模仿现代的科学方法和理论，常用毫无意义的语言来表达思想
    The French absurdist concept of a philosophy or science dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics, intended as a parody of the methods and theories of modern science and often expressed in nonsensical language.
  • 癌症一种病状，特征是出现了已扩散到身体很多部位的癌
    A pathological condition characterized by the presence of carcinomas that have metastasized to many parts of the body.
  • 骰骨一块脚外侧的跗骨，位于跟骨之前、第四和第五跖骨之后
    A tarsal bone on the outer side of the foot in front of the calcaneus and behind the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones.
  • 后生动物属后生动物亚界的一种多细胞动物，此亚界是动物界传统的两界区分系统内的一个分支
    A multicellular animal of the subkingdom Metazoa, a division of the animal kingdom in traditional two-kingdom classification systems.
  • 现在这样一大批犯罪分子不严肃处理，那还说什么法制？
    When we fail to mete out stern punishment to so many criminals, can we even speak of having a legal system?
  • 火流星与最亮的行星一样亮或比其更亮的陨星
    A meteor that is as bright or brighter than the brightest planets.
  • 一般来说，流星及流星颗粒都是成团成群运行的，就象蜂群一样，他们按自己选择的方向随意运行，除了有极少数单独运行的例外。
    Generally speaking, meteors and meteor particles travel together in swarms like bees, with the exception of the loners, and travel in any direction they choose.
  • 一颗流星突然掠过天空。
    A meteor suddenly shot across the sky.