一中英惯用例句:
| - 随着我经济状况的日渐好转,父亲在衰老,但他的鲜花一直继续到他70岁生日前几个月。他死于心脏病。
As my fortunes grew, my father's waned, but his gifts of flowers continued until l he dred of a heart attack a few month's before his 70th birthday. - 不过随着华文课在中学毕业后的消失,华族学生对这些活动的认同和参与也相应减少,渐渐地,他们与华族文化犹如隔了一道墙。
However, as Chinese language is no longer taught after secondary education, the interests of Chinese students in such events have also waned. Soon, an invisible wall begins to develop between them and Chinese culture. - 这次聚会一定没意思--咱们想个法子别去了。
It's bound to be a boring party let's try to wangle out of it/going. - 我很想去看明天的比赛--你能找个词儿安排一下吗?
I'd love to go to the match tomorrow do you think you can wangle it? - 她多弄到一星期的假。
She's wangled an extra week's holiday for herself. - 用诈骗手段得到 一张参加集会的请柬
wangle an invitation to a party - 她设法弄到了一张请柬。
She wangled an invitation. - 我设法替乔治弄到一份好工作。
I wangled George into a good job. - 骗取了一个她根本没有受过有关方面训练的工作
Wangled a job for which she had no training. - 他希望我同他一起去。
He wants me to go with him. - 她决定接受这一提议,因为没有更好一些的。
She decided to accept the offer for want of anything better. - 我希望你仔细考虑一下。
I want you to think it over. - 我生日的时候想要一辆自行车。
I want a bicycle for my birthday. - 我想要一瓶啤酒,我太太想要一杯咖啡。
I want a bottle of beer. My wife wants a cup of coffee. - 哈里说他不想干了,他不想再参加这一运动了。
Harry says he wants out. he doesn't want to get along with the movement any more. - “我还以为你想要汤姆,不想和我在一块哩。”
“I thought you wanted Tom. Didn’t want to be with me.” - 还有的人的悲剧更为惨痛,他获得了他所向往的一切,结果却发现原来他根本不需要它。
And there is the even more bitter tragedy of a man who fully gets what he wants and finds out that he doesn't want it. - 叔本华说过:"一个人能做他想做的,但不能要他想要的。"从年轻时起这句话就一直深深地激励着我。
Schopenhauer's saying," A man can do what he wants,but not want what he wants,"has been a very real in spiration to me since my youth; - 若要完全单一化,恐怕各族群都反对,因为各族群都要保留自己的一些特征。而且若要完全单一化,我认为我们将变得更加脆弱。
If we were all homogenised, not only do the communities not want it — because actually each community wants to retain some of its own identity — but I think we would be the weaker for it. - 若要完全单一化,恐怕各族群都反对,因为各族群都要保留自己的一些特征。而且若要完全单一化,我认为我们将变得更加脆弱。
If we were all homogenized, not only do the communities not want it — because actually each community wants to retain some of its own identity — but I think we would be the weaker for it. - 医生让她通过游泳锻炼,可是她对医生说要当游泳冠军,惊得医生不禁叫了一声:“哦,上帝,她是想创造奇迹吗?
However, she told her doctor that she wanted to be a swimming champion, which surprised her doctor to utter:"Oh, God! She wants to make a miracle?" - 我们的房子需要修一修。
Our house wanted doing up. - 他是一个受通缉的人。
He is a wanted man. - “噢,我多么希望能有一把琴啊!”
Oh, how I wanted one! - 想要一个孩子
Wanted to have a child. - 他需要的是一种自重感。
He wanted a feeling of importance; - 我要的是那一类东西。
I wanted something of the kind. - 我想打一下电话。
I wanted to do some telephoning. - 我一直盼望跟你见面!
I have been wanting to meet you. - 这恰好是我一直想要的。
It's just the very thing I have been wanting. - 你正是我一直想见的人。
You're the very person I've been wanting to meet. - 这孩子一定是感到好些了,他一整天都想下床。
The boy must be feeling better, he's been wanting up all day.
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