中英慣用例句:
  • 多年前,有個荷蘭籍的小男孩,在學校下課後,替一傢面包店擦窗,每期賺五毛錢。
    Years ago, a poor Dutch immigrant boy washed the windows of a bakery shop after school to help support his family.
  • 話雖說得不好,他眼前卻浮現出薩萊納剋魯茲那個炎熱的夜的豐富景象。狹長的海灘的白影,港口運糖船的燈光,遠處喝醉了酒的水手們的哈喝,熙熙攘攘的碼頭苦力,墨西哥人那滿臉的怒氣,他的眼睛在光下閃出野獸一般的兇光,鋼鐵在自己脖於上的刺痛和熱血的流淌。人群,驚呼,他和墨西哥人軀體扭結,滾來滾去,踢起了沙塵。而在遼遠的某個地點卻有柔美的吉他聲珍珍珠綜傳來。
    Baldly as he had stated it, in his eyes was a rich vision of that hot, starry night at Salina Cruz, the white strip of beach, the lights of the sugar steamers in the harbor, the voices of the drunken sailors in the distance, the jostling stevedores, the flaming passion in the Mexican's face, the glint of the beast-eyes in the starlight, the sting of the steel in his neck, and the rush of blood, the crowd and the cries, the two bodies, his and the Mexican's, locked together, rolling over and over and tearing up the sand, and from away off somewhere the mellow tinkling of a guitar.
  • 美國衛公司在故障排查過程中嚮中國演示了如何改進長徵火箭製導係統的設計和可靠性,這一技術也能用於彈道導彈。
    The US satellite company demonstrated to the Chinese side how to improve the design and reliability of the guidance system of the LM rockets, which could also be used in developing ballistic missiles.
  • 儘管中國早已擁有高精度的導彈製導技術,但稍具科技常識的人都知道,商業衛發射决定了衹需要采用精度適中、經濟合理的製導係統,而沒有必要采用彈道導彈那樣高精度的製導係統。
    Although China already had the high-precision missile guidance technology, people with even slight scientific knowledge will know that commercial satellite launches require only an economic and rational guidance system with moderate precision, instead of the high-precision guidance system needed for ballistic missiles.
  • 《考剋斯報告》還稱,中國通過商業衛發射得到了美國運載火箭整流罩技術,這“也許有助於中國設計和改進未來的多彈頭再入大氣層導彈和潛艇發射彈道導彈及其可靠性”。
    The Cox Report also says that the US carrier rocket fairing technique China has acquired through commercial satellite launches "may assist the design and improved reliability of future PRC MIRVed missiles, if the PRC decides to develop them, and of future submarine-launched ballistic missiles''.
  • 在122個國際奧委會委員中,有105個在期五的無記名投票中投了票,到第二輪結束時,北京以絶對優勢56票獲得勝利,而所得票數位居第二的多倫多衹得了22票,被遠遠地落在後面。
    Out of 122 IOC members, 105 voted in Friday's secret ballot that ended after second round when Beijing collected a winning majority of 56 votes. Toronto finished a distant second with 22 votes.
  • 年內,在該館舉行的精彩活動包括:流行歌suede及chrisdeburgh演唱會、世界職業標準舞及拉丁舞表演,以及在七月主權移交和十.一國慶所舉辦的一連串慶祝活動。
    Highlights in 1997 included pop singers Suede and Chris de Burgh, World Professional Ballroom and Latin American Dance performances and major celebration programmes for the Handover in July and National Day on October 1.
  • ”如果科學家們能找到大量的冰水的儲存,這就可以證明火是一個有過生命起源的溫暖、潮濕的地方。
    " If scientists find substantial reserves of frozen water, it would bolster the view that Mars was once a balmy , moist world where life could have started.
  • 然而,貝尼特斯和他的同行、巴爾的摩太空探測科學研究所的赫蘇斯·邁斯-阿佩利亞尼斯認為,200萬年前至少有兩顆超新在地球附近爆炸。
    However, Bení tez and his colleague,Dr Jesús Maíz-Apellániz, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, now believe that at least two supernovae occurred near Earth two million years ago.
  • 以下為香港特別行政區行政長官董建華今日(期三),在中國香港業餘體育協會暨奧林匹剋委員會亞運祝捷會上緻辭全文:
    Following is the full text of the speech by the Chief Executive, Mr Tung Chee Hwa, at the Celebration Reception today (Wednesday) held by the Amateur Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China for the Hong Kong Delegation to the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok:
  • (美國)威斯康第一國民銀行
    First National Bank ( Wisconsin)
  • 富有票房率的電影明
    A bankable movie star.
  • 銀行星期日不辦公。
    Banks don't open on Sundays.
  • 醫院大樓上條旗和三色旗並肩飄揚。
    The star?spangled banner and the tricolore fly side by side above the building.
  • 期天,吉米已請求牧師預告了他的婚事。
    Jimmy had his banns called last Sunday.
  • 一般婚事連續3個期在教堂公佈。
    Usually the banns are put up in church for three weeks.
  • 這個期天浸信會教友將要舉行一場典禮。
    The Baptist will hold a ceremony this Sunday.
  • 期六下午他應邀去參加一個烤肉聚餐會。
    He is invited to attend a barbecue social last saturday afternoon.
  • 期六下午他應邀去參加一個烤肉聚餐會。
    He was invited to attend a barbecue social last saturday afternoon.
  • 我希望期六野餐前,天氣會轉好。
    I hope the weather takes a turn for the better before the barbecue on Saturday.
  • 期天下午我們得去伯恩傢參加露天燒烤會,你還記得吧?
    We'll go to Mr Bowen' home for a barbecue party on Sunday afternoon. Do you still remember?
  • 巴塞羅那奧運會之後一個期就是她14歲生日。
    She will be 14, one week after the Barcelona Games.
  • 有好幾個期,狗的吠叫使特納一傢與鄰居的關係十分緊張。
    The dog's barking kept the Turners at swords' points with their neighbours for weeks.
  • 作為懲罰,這些戰士在兵營裏禁閉了一個期。
    As a punishment, the soldiers were confined to barracks for a week.
  • 他因野蠻行為被罰停賽已有兩期了。
    He has been barred from playing for two weeks because of bad behaviour.
  • 與槍筒成一直綫。
    The sight is aliened with the barrel.
  • 期我買了三條手絹。
    I had bought three bars of handkerchiefs in last week.
  • 孩子們歡呼着朝那棒球明圍上去。
    The children mobbed the baseball star.
  • 一個由棒球明組成的訪問團將要到海外軍事基地去作巡回表演。
    A group of baseball stars will tour overseas army bases.
  • 擔子菌的一個小目,肉質,球狀子實體;包含馬勃菌和地
    small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars.
  • 在敵人猛烈進攻下,這個營堅守了一期。
    The battalion held out for a week in the face of heavy enemy assaults.
  • 我想你說過你媽媽衹在這兒呆一個期。他帶的行李物品未免太多了吧。
    I thought you said your mother was only coming for a week. She's got enough luggage there to sink a battleship.