说中英惯用例句:
| - 休斯敦说:"公众的感情强烈迸发,让他们(皇室成员们)意识到自己的世界也应该改变一下了。"
"The amazing eruption of emotion over her death got through to them that their world has had to change," says Houston. - 吉拉迪说在经历了飓风和随后而来的火山喷发这样接连不断的自然灾害后,野生鹦鹉的数量在二十世纪八十年代中期达到最低点。
The parrots' numbers in the wild hit a low point in the mid-1980s, Gilardi says, after they suffered through back-to-back natural disasters: a volcanic eruption followed by a hurricane. - 她读爱情小说解闷。
She reads love stories as an escape. - 对有些人来说, 吸毒是一种逃避现实的手段.
Drug-taking is a form of escapism for some people. - 有些人提出,普鲁斯特根本不是小说家,而是散文作家。
Some people have suggested that Proust is not a novelist at all, but an essayist. - 他的第二部小说确立了他作家之名。
His second novel established his fame as a writer. - 追溯字的词源追溯、阐述或说明…的词源
To trace and state the etymology of. - 洛杉矶监狱精神病治疗计划的前医疗主任尤金·孔兹曼医生说:“今天我们在监狱中看到的囚犯与我过去在精神病医院里看到的是同一些人。”
"The inmates we see in jail today are the same people I used to see in psychiatric hospitals," said Dr.Eugene Kunzman, the former medical director of the mental health program at the Los Angeles jail. - 这些人对这一更有说服力的优生法怀有恐惧感,因为它用基因不平等这一科学证明代替了早期优生论者赤裸裸的种族和阶级偏见,更具有诱惑力。
These people fear a more powerful eugenic practice, whereby the crude racial and class prejudices of early eugenicists are replaced by scientific demonstrations of genetic inequality. - `去世'是`死'的委婉说法.
`Pass away' is a euphemism for `die'. - “damn”的委婉说法。
a euphemism for `damn'. - “hell”的委婉说法。
a euphemism for `hell'. - 空闲的;在工作之余;(“unemployed(失业的)”的委婉说法)。
idle; between jobs; (euphemism for `unemployed'). - 委婉地说用委婉语表达或提及,婉转表示
To speak of or refer to by means of a euphemism. - 与其说埃文斯是个作家,不如说是个历史学家。
Evans is a historian rather than a writer. - “你认为将委派谁呢?”“嗯,最后的抉择显然不是琼斯就是埃文斯,就资格和经历来说,两人都差不多。”
"Whom d'you think will be given the appointment?" "Well, the eventual choice lies obviously between Jones and Evans, and so far as their respective qualifications and experience go, there's nothing in it. - 英国斯特林大学研究动物交流的专家马修·伊文思说:"动物的交流中也存在方言,所以正是由于口音的不同,而使得这两只加拿大水獭很难和当地的水獭进行沟通交流。"
"Dialects are common in animal communications, but because of the differences in the sounds they make it will be difficult for these Canadian otters to communicate with the native ones," Matthew Evans, an animal communications expert from Stirling University said. - 在法国,我们说“像诺曼人的回答,”其意思是说不切实地回答,不说是也不说不。
We say, in France, "answering like a Norman," which means to give an evasive answer, neither yes nor no. - 作为一个已经不需要为说一口纯正英语而刻意花工夫的美国人,布什总统似乎总能"语惊四座"。昨天,当他把萨达姆·侯赛因形容成一个诡计多端、奸诈狡猾的独裁者时,又一次产生了这样的效果。
FOR a man untroubled by the need for linguistic purity, President Bush surpassed even himself yesterday as he sought to portray President Saddam Hussein as a scheming and evasive dictator. - 胡扯胡乱地说或写
To speak or write evasively. - 唠叨胡乱写或说或做…
To speak, write, or act evasively about. - 她丈夫好像认识很多被任命的人,但是当别人问他他们是谁时,他推说不认识。
her husband seemed to know many of the people who were named, but he replied evasively when asked who they were. - 他看起来很高兴,甚至可以说欢欣雀跃。
He looked happy, even gay. - 他整个晚上都在说大话。
he talked big all evening. - 不用说,夏日的傍晚是多么美。
Needs not say how lovely are the summer evenings. - 这样的夜晚,正像法国人说的那样,已经变得让我不堪忍受。
Some evenings it became, as the French say, insupportable. - 只听得彬格莱小姐恭维话说个不停,不是说他的字写得好,就是说他的字迹一行行很齐整,要不就是赞美他的信写得仔细,可是对方却完全是冷冰冰爱理不理。这两个人你问我答,形成了一段奇妙的对白。照这样看来,伊丽莎白的确没有把他们俩看错。
The perpetual commendations of the lady either on his hand-writing, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in unison with her opinion of each. - 我现在说到的事情都是战后发生的。
The events I'm speaking of were subsequent to the war. - 经我们劝说,他最终同意不再捐钱,只写了一封感谢信表达他的谢意。
He eventually conceded to write a thank-you note instead. - 法利说:“一个具有小t性格的人不会梦想去攀登珠穆朗玛峰,不会梦想攀登任何山峰。
"A small-t person wouldn't dream of climbing Everest, wouldn't dream of climbing any mountain," Farley said. - "你说得对,完全对。"
"What you said is true, every bit of it." - 人家都这么说。
That's what everybody says.
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