说中英惯用例句:
| - 辛吉斯痛心地说,她经常被一个搞得筋疲力尽,又被另一个彻底打垮。
As Hingis lamented,she often gets softened up by one,finished off by the other. - 一个妇女曾伤心地对我说:“我和我丈夫过去似乎那么相亲相爱,但是现在爱情已经无影无踪了。
“We seemed to love so much, but now it’s gone, ” one woman lamented to me. - 他说他的工会——运输工会504分会——历年来在合约上做了“极大的让步”以协助泛美[航空公司]纾解财务困难。“结果全然没用,”他哀伤地说。
He said his union, Local 504 of the Transport Workers Union, made "massive contract givebacks" over the years to help Pan Am with its financial troubles. "It was all to no avail," he lamented. - 关于“收获节”这个词儿的来源,有一种说法认为,指的是用羔羊做封建贡品进贡的时期。实际上,这个词儿与此没有关系。
One explanation for the origin of the term "Lammas" is that it referred to the time when a feudal tribute of lambs was paid, but in fact it has nothing to do with this. - 当我们把沙发往楼上搬时,女房东说:"慢慢来,小心点。"
"Easy does it, " said the landlady when we moved the sofa upstairs. - 当我们把沙发往楼上搬时,女房东说:“慢慢来,小心点。”
“Easy does it,” said the landlady when we moved the sofa upstairs. - 那女房东说她不愿意有不按时作息的房客。
The landlady said she would have no lodger who did not keep good hours. - 经劝说, 他们签署了放弃向房东索赔的权利.
They were persuaded to sign a waiver of claims against the landlord. - 豪斯尔太太在这点上也把这个地主驳得无话可说。
Mrs. Hauser had argued down the landlord on this too. - 我的房东要挟说要把每周租金提高
My landlord's threatening to put the rent up by 10 a week. - 普雷斯说:"虽然《时间机器》中并未出现月球岩石雨毁坏了某座大楼的镜头,但我们还是决定将其剪切,而且这对我们来说并不困难。"
"There was no destruction of landmark buildings or anything like that," Press said, "but it's easy to take out." - 习惯上说,地球上最大的一块陆地是沿着乌拉尔山脉分为两大“洲”的。
The largest landmass is usually divided into two"continents" along the Ural Mountains. - 朗曼出版社最近又出了两本新小说。
Lang Man's publishing house has gone two new novels again recently. - 此乃后期之中国字,若在初期,“栏”亦没有木旁,“栏杆”只写作“阑干”,都没有“木”旁,说不定“走廊”亦可写作“走郎”,但我不曾见过,想当然耳。
This however is a later development of the Chinese script. In its early form, the word 栏 lan did not possess a 木mu (wood) radical. The phrase 栏 杆 lan gan was originally written as 阑 干, without the 木 mu (wood) radical. It is possible that the expression 走 廊 zou lang could also at one time have been written as 走 郎 zou lang. I have never come across the expression being written in this form, but this is how I think it would have developed. - 你会说什么语言?
What languages can you speak? - 不同国家的人说不同的语言。
People in different countries speak different languages. - "他会说多种外语,包括俄语。"
He can speak many foreign languages including Russian. - 对英国人来说,不管在哪儿,几乎对一切都表现出一种懒洋洋的无所谓的态度才算是举止得当,尽管有的人内心可能很愤怒。
To the English the proper way to bahave in almost all situations is to display a languid indifference to almost everything,though one may be fuming underneath. - 一次有一个学生自我介绍说她来自老挝。一个美国学生问:“在哪儿?
Once, when a student introduced herself as coming from Laos, an American student asked, "Where is that? - 一个住在老挝湄公河流域和泰国并且说老挝语的佛教民族成员;和泰国人有联系。
a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais. - 拉普人所说的语言通常假定属于乌拉尔语族。
any of the languages spoken by the Lapp people and generally assumed to be Uralic languages. - 他对她说的是一派谎言,可她却全部接受
He told her all those lies and she just lapped them up - 新闻界的权威们衷心欢迎戈尔巴乔夫的“和平”演说,正如上一代的新闻界权威们衷心欢迎希特勒的“和平”演说一样。
Media pundits lapped up Gorbachev's "peace" speech, just as an earlier generation of media pundits lapped up Hitler's "peace" speeches. - 创造出这个电路的小组成员费宗·瓦武里斯说,尽管要造出有纳米管的电脑还有很长一段路要走,ibm的这项发明仍然“是关键的一步”。
Though the first laptop with nanotubes inside is still a long way off, the IBM invention “ was a critical step,” says Phaedon Avouris, a member of the group that created the circuit. - 直接初步的立法主要是表示许可而非说明性的;娇惯子女的父母。
direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive; permissive parents. - 他只是说着玩而已。
He only said it for a lark. - 他说他只是闹着玩的。
He said he only did it for a lark. - 顺便走访奥雷克尔就可听说有关拉里·埃利斯的笑话。
Drop by Oracle for Larry Ellison jokes. - optobionics公司的负责日常工作的最高官员larryblankenship说:“如果他们有光的感觉,我们会感到高兴。
"We'll be happy if they have light perception." said Optobionics Chief Operating Officer Larry Blankenship. - 而今,激光外科提供了一种相对来说痛苦较少的整容和拉皮术。
But now,laser surgery is a relatively painless alternative to facelifts and skin tucks. - "最后,我必须说我的这些成就都应归功于我的同事和朋友们的鼓励和帮助。"
"Lastly, I must say I owe all the achievements to the encouragement and help from my collegues and friends." - 请你再说一遍,我没有完全听懂。
Would you mind saying that again, I didn’t quite latch on.
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