么中英惯用例句:
| - 现在这么多青年人犯罪,无法无天,没有顾忌,一个原因是文化素质太低。
One reason for the high crime rate among young people who are simply lawless and have no scruples about committing crimes is that their level of general education is too low. - 反正他现在已经死了;我认为他们睡着了;至少,他们是没有动;我不知道发生了什么;反正已经过去了;至少还有另外一个因素需要考虑;我不知道是怎么开始的,反正有个短暂的混战;至少,政府面临着严重的抗议;至少,他为此获得了骑士的身份。
Anyhow, he is dead now; I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet; I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone; anyway, there is another factor to consider; I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle; in any event, the government faced a serious protest; but at any rate he got a knighthood for it. - 收到三月一日你寄来的信,我们看了都明白了,前信你说矿工学校,我们误会了,所以寄信去问你,因为“矿工”两字,照中国文的意义,只是一个词,那就是说“采矿的工人”,因此我怀疑,为什么采矿的工人也需要学习会计呢?
Received your letter of 1 March. We have read your letter and it's all very clear now. Your earlier letter referred to the institution as 矿 工 学 校 kuang gong xue xiao (School of Mines) which led us to the misunderstanding of its meaning; that was why we wrote to ask you.In Chinese, the two words 矿 工 kuang-gong form a phrase which means 采 矿 的 工 人 cai kuang de gong ren (workers who work in a mine), which puzzled me why mine workers should need to study Accountancy. - 为什么矿工学校有会计科呢?还是附设在那里?
We do not understand the nature of the institution: why does a School of Mines teach Accountancy and how does it fit into the institution? - 究竟你所读的会计科,是一种什么性质的?
What is the nature of the Accountancy course which you are pursuing? - 那么我要一份牛排。
Then a steak for me, plea se. - 其他海味怎么样?
How about some other seafood? - 并不是什么样的海味我都爱吃的。
I do not like all kinds of seafood. - 今天有没有什么海味?
I wonder if you have any seafood today? - 下面能给我推荐一种什么海鲜吗?
Now what kind of seafood could you recommend? - 请告诉我怎么吃这些海鲜好吗?
Could you tell me how to eat these seafood dishes? - 恐怕还得点两道菜……牛肉啦,海鲜啦或者什么的。
You might want to order two more dishes…perhaps beef, seafood or… - 为了应付她时间表上的各种事情,她依照一条从她祖母那里学来的原则:如果有什么工作要做,她立即就做。
To deal with all the demands of her schedule,she followed a rule learned from her seam-stress grandmother:If she had a job to do,she did it immediately. - 我想去海港,有人告诉我这么走就能到。
I'm tring to go to the seaport.Someone told me that I could find it this way. - 本世纪初,西尔斯·罗巴克用邮件征订的方法卖房子,许多房子八十年来还是那么坚固适用。
In the early part of this century, Sears Roebuck sold houses by mail-order. Many are still sturdy and habitable 80 years on. - 你怎么解释这接二连三地发生的事故呢?
How do you account for all the accidents in series? - 因此,对我们社会中贫穷的主要原因没有什么好自鸣得意的。
There is, accordingly, no room for complacency about what is the main cause of misery in our society. - 当我没有什么事做时,便让我不做什么事,不受骚扰地沉入安静深处吧,一如海水沉默时海边的暮色。
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do become untroubled in its depth of peace like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent. - 好吧。那么就让我们去海边吧!
OK. Let's go to the seaside, then! - 他本赛季表现怎么样?
How did he play this season? - 情况很紧急:如果季节性的雨不马上下的话,那么庄嫁就会枯死,几百万的人将面临饥饿。
It is matter of life or death: if the seasonal rains don't come soon the crops will fail and millions of people will face starvation. - 对了,这调味料是用什么做成的?
By the way, what's this seasoning made from? - 还有些什么票。
What seat is leave? - 还有些什么票。
What seat is left? - 你喜欢什么样的座位?
Your preference for seat? - 对于她的存折,我茫然不知究竟该怎么办,因为她在西雅图和英格兰都有可观的存款。
I wondered dully what on earth I ought to do about her bank books, for she had considerable sums of money in Seattle and in England. - (假如卫生、住房、食物、制冷以及烹饪等室内用火需要能源的话,那么抽水、净化水以及将海水脱盐以供灌溉也同样需要能源。)
( Providing sanitation, housing, food, refrigeration and indoor fires for cooking takes energy, as do the pumping and purifi cation of water and the desalination of seawater for irrigation.) - 初雪飘落时,是多么的静谧,多么的安详!
What silence,too,came with the snow,and what seclusion! - 这第二道是什么?
What's this second course? - 第二,中国的革命,它反对的是什么东西?
Secondly, what is the Chinese revolution directed against? - 第二,用什么办法(或通过什么方式)来达致理想的人性与理想的人生(中文里“文”的意思就是美化、修饰)。
Secondly, what can we do and how do we bring about the ideal person and ideal life? - 凭一时高兴,什么也做不好。
Nothing worthwhile can be accomplished by fits and starts.
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