一中英惯用例句:
  • 其叶有时被用作一种可食的野菜；种子被用作一种谷物；生长于美国南部至美洲中部，印度和中国。
    leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China.
  • 不具备持久的木本茎干；其中的大部分是开花的园艺植物或野菜；一些具有药用价值；而另一些是有毒的。
    a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests.
  • 说起路面上的坑洼，那时得要好几匹马才能把一辆不幸掉进沟里的车拖出来。
    And talk about potholes: it often took a team of horses to extract a car from a nasty ditch.
  • 跟我们一块儿吃顿便饭吧。
    Come along and take potluck with us.
  • 如果你不介意，请过来和我们一道吃点便饭吧。
    If you don't mind, please come and take potluck with us.
  • 到那儿一看，许许多多的餐桌上摆满了每个人带来的菜肴。
    And when you got there, manytables of potluck dishes.
  • 他们准备吃饭时他打来电话，于是他们请他一道吃便饭。
    They were about to have lunch when phoned, and they asked him to take potluck with them.
  • 喂，莎莉，本周末在我家有一个自助餐聚会，你能来参加吗？
    Oh, sally, we're having a potluck party at my house this weekend. Will you come and join us?
  • 供选择的东西这么多，我想我还是随意选一个，就这个－没关系，真的。
    There are so many to choose from; I think I'd better take potluck and have-it doesn't matter, really-this one.
  • 这便是potluck这一表达方式的由来。由于参加的每个人都带来了食物，他们帮着摆桌子和餐具，帮着刷洗碗盘。
    So that's where you get the expression "potluck", because everybody brings the food together and everybody helps. They help serve it, they help set it up, and they help clean it.
  • potluck是个有趣的表达法。elyn和我刚才正在谈论这个问题，我们猜想它来自于美洲早期文化，人们在锅中烹煮食物，然后把食物带来放在一起共同进餐。那么luck在这里是什么意思呢？
    "Potluck" is a funny word, Elyn and I were just discussing it, And our guess is from maybe native American culture or early American culture, where they cooked the food at pots and everyone brought the food together, and the lucky part is what?
  • 亚历山大美国弗吉尼亚州北部的独立市，隔波托马克河与华盛顿特区相望。基本上是首都的一个郊外居住区，市内有许多具有历史意义的建筑，包括建于1752年的加兹比旅馆。1749年乔治·华盛顿曾帮助设计该市的街道布局。人口111，183
    An independent city of northern Virginia on the Potomac River opposite Washington, D.C. Primarily a residential suburb of the capital, the city has many historic buildings, including Gadsby's Tavern, built in1752. George Washington helped lay out the streets in1749. Population,111, 183.
  • 1．把一个瓶子或罐子做一下装饰，然后装满红色m＆ms巧克力豆、心形糖果、巧克力、浴盐、百花香--或是任何你能想到的东西。
    1.Decorate a bottle or a jar,and then fill it up with red M＆Ms,candy hearts,chocolates,bath salts,potpourri --or anything else that you can think of.
  • 因此，我们在赞成或栽培华文精英的同时，也强烈认为，马来及印度精英也该栽培，至于英文精英，英文是我们的主导与共同语言，英文精英老早在我们当中存在了，继续栽培年轻一代的英文精英，是理所当然的。
    In our perception, our future society will not be a melting pot dominated by a particular culture, but a potpourri in which all different cultures can be preserved and developed fully.
  • 我向兔子胡乱打了一枪，但是没有射中。
    I took a potshot at the rabbit, but missed.
  • 浓汤(一般指蔬菜或菜肉浓汤)或清汤(一般指清炖肉汤或鸡茶)任选一种。
    A choice of pottage (thick soup) or consommé (clear soup).
  • 据说英国参加共同市场是为了一碗红豆汤而损害国家的利益。
    It was said that by joining the Common Market Britain would be giving away her national rights and advantages for a mess of pottage.
  • 一本古典小说的简易本
    a potted version of a classical novel
  • 男孩射杀了一只鹌鹑。
    The boy potted a partridge.
  • 他们正在那里射击一只老虎。
    They were potting at a tiger there.
  • 我们周末做一些琐碎的家务事.
    We spent the weekend pottering around (in) the house.
  • 而这部电影的来头可不小。如今排在全球票房排行榜第二位的正是去年秋季另一部在美国影坛大行其道的影片《哈里·波特与魔法石》，票房高达9.65亿美金。而即将推出的《哈里·波特与密室》正是该片的续集。
    The new "Harry Potter" is the follow-up to last fall's other smash hit movie, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," which hit No.2 on the all-time worldwide box office charts with $965 million.
  • 用预告片来大造声势这一招同样也被美国在线的另一家旗下公司华纳兄弟学到了手，他们把这一招用在了即将上映的新片《哈里·波特与密室》的宣传上。
    AOL's other moviemaking unit, Warner Bros., used a similar strategy with upcoming film, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
  • 乔治：好，波特先生，我……我……这样好的机会我想我应该激动得跳起来，但我……我只是……我想你能不能给我二十四小时让我考虑一下？
    George: Well,Mr.Potter,I...I...I know I ought to jump at the chance,but I...I just...I wonder if it would be possible for you to give me twenty? four hours to think it over?
  • 波特：你不想住镇上最豪华的住宅吗？不想给你太太买许多漂亮衣服吗？不想一年去纽约出几次差吗？或者间或去欧洲看看。
    Potter: You wouldn’t mind living in the nicest house in town,buying your wife a lot of fine clothes,a couple of business trips to New York a year,maybe once in a while Europe.
  • 这是一款集实用性、观赏性于一体的地理百科软件。
    the materials at the command of the potters grew.
  • 她从不浪费一分钟，即使是在身体不好的时候也是这样。
    She never potters away a minute, not even when she is unwell.
  • 波特一家也许很有钱，但不是出身名门望族。
    The Potters may have plenty of money, but they don't come out of the top drawer.
  • 一种硬的素烧的陶器
    A kind of hard unglazed pottery.
  • 他称出了一些烟丝。放进烟丝袋里。
    He weighed out the tobacco and put it in the pouch.
  • 所以，我给每个学生做了一个装"油炸弹子"的小袋作为礼物送给他们。
    So, as my gift to them, I made each of my students a little pouch for carrying their fried marbles.
  • 要不了多久，等到我的荷包一空，那就更糟了。尤其倒霉的是失业补助金又没咱的份。
    When my pouch is empty and that's not far away, it'll be even worse for me. No dole for this child, unfortunately.