中英慣用例句:
  • 餘欠之數(500英鎊)於一周內付清.
    will be paid within one week.
  • 出動了警察集會驅散.
    Police were called in to break up the meeting.
  • 此事提交委員會討論.
    The matter will be brought before the committee.
  • 我上班時給你打電話.
    I'll buzz you at work.
  • 本年度的盈利與上一年度的虧損相抵.
    This year's profits will balance our previous losses.
  • 她將受到輿論的製裁.
    She will be judged at the bar of public opinion.
  • 科學家已推算出世界人口在本世紀末要增加一倍.
    Scientists have calculated that the world's population will double by the end of the century.
  • 工黨候選人下月嚮全體選民遊說拉票.
    The Labour candidate will canvass the constituency next month.
  • 這廣告引起電視觀衆的註意.
    This advertisement will capture the attention of TV audiences.
  • 新稅法對小型企業, 是一連串的打擊.
    The new tax laws will clobber small businesses, ie harm them financially.
  • 工廠行倒閉一事影響著工人的士氣.
    The threat of closure affected the workers' morale.
  • 教堂講道之後進行募捐.
    /made after the sermon.
  • 法庭命令(必須)這本書的所有印本都銷毀.
    be destroyed.
  • 史密斯將軍統率陸軍.
    General Smith is in command of the army.
  • 這支軍隊由史密斯軍指揮.
    The army is under the command of General Smith.
  • 他已上訴請求死刑減為無期徒刑.
    commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment.
  • 這兩首詩(的風格)加以比較.
    the two poems.
  • 兩件事物相比較往往是有益的.
    It is often useful to make a comparison between two things.
  • 電影製作即將完成.
    The film is nearing completion.
  • 遵照你的要求我們已建議撤銷.
    we have withdrawn our suggestion.
  • 政府的計劃是新的工業集中於高失業區.
    The Government's plan is to concentrate new industries in areas of high unemployment.
  • 女王爵士頭銜授予幾位傑出人士.
    The Queen conferred knighthoods on several distinguished men.
  • 有人問她時, 她肯定了她要退休.
    When asked, she confirmed that she was going to retire.
  • 他同意這個計劃付諸實施.
    He gave his consent for the project to get under way.
  • 他思忖著要是沒有這些孩子, 來又如何.
    He contemplated what the future would be like without the children.
  • 已决定高速公路延長(至海濱).
    , ie build more of it until it reaches the coast.
  • 於星期一前來, 除非你寫信叫我別來.
    I will come on Monday unless you write to the contrary, ie telling me not to come.
  • 政府的危機成為新聞報道的好題材.
    The government crisis will make good copy, ie will make an interesting or exciting newspaper story.
  • 警方這一行動十分漂亮, 罪犯一網打盡, 迅速起獲所有贓物.
    It was a copy-book operation by the police; all the criminals were arrested and all the stolen property quickly recovered.
  • 全國各地將有雨.
    There will be rain in all parts of the country.
  • 本屆畢業的高材生獲得高薪職位.
    The cream of this year's graduates will get high-paid jobs.
  • 他采取強硬措施管理所屬部門. make heavy `weather of sth make a task more difficult than it really is 某事弄得比實際睏難. take a heavy toll/take its toll => toll1.
    He runs his department with a heavy hand.