戴:你昨晚出席音乐会没有，汤尼？ Did you attend the concert last night, Tony?
聚会过後,我们就躺在汤尼家的地板上睡了. We dossed down on Tony's floor after the party.
汤尼不得不驱策自己继续做这种单调无趣的事。 Tony had to push himself to go on doing such dull work.
汤尼投篮时对方队员犯规，因而得到发两次点球的机会。 Tony was given two foul shots when he was fouled while trying to shoot.
天一下雨，我们徒步旅行的计划泡汤了。 Our plan of taking a hike toppled down when it began to rain.
汤姆在球门区内接得一传球而得分。 Tom caught a pass in the end zone for a touchdown (=he caught the pass back of the goal line and inside the marked area and it counted for a touchdown).
汤姆在黑暗里摸着找锁眼。 Tom is touching inside dark to look for the lock eye.
我的汤里再放一点盐吧！vi， Put just a trace more salt in my soup.
汤里简直一点盐也没有放。 There is barely a trace of salt in the soup.
她知道我在汤姆斯从事无线电事业前，曾一度做他的私人经理。那时汤姆斯到欧洲各地去旅行，在那段旅行期间，我帮助汤姆斯录下他沿途上的所见所闻。 She had discovered that I had once been Lowell Thomas’ manager before he went on the radio and that I had traveled in Europe a great deal while helping him prepare the illustrated travel talks he was then delivering.
大夫正用某种特制药品给汤姆治病。 The doctor is treating Tom with some special medicine.
汤姆有皱眉头的习惯。 Tom has the trick of frowning.
我又抓到汤姆在耍手腕了！ I've caught Tom at tricks again!
杰夫：这是因为该赛的奖杯是国际羽毛球联合会第一任主席乔治·汤姆斯捐赠的，所以又以他的名字命名：“汤姆斯杯赛”。 Jeff: You are right. That is after Thomas, the first chairman of the International Badminton Federation. The "trophy" was donated by him.
汤姆和他父亲开诚布公地谈了他逃学的问题。 Tom and his father had a man-to-man talk about his playing truant.
汤姆:每个击球员可以打三次，这次是第二次，也叫二击。 Each better has three tries. That was his second try or "strike".
汤姆使劲地扯了一下他姐姐的头发。 Tom gave his sister's hair a hard tug.
汤姆在用口哨吹一支曲子。 Tom is whistling a tune.
汤姆因不努力工作而被迫辞去公职。 Tom has been turfed out the office for not working hard.
你的朋友杰克·特纳好像迷恋上了苏珊·汤普金斯。 You friend Jack Turner seems to have a crush on Susan Tompkins.
用小牛头肉或其他肉做成的汤，模仿绿色的甲鱼汤。 soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup.
用小牛头肉或其他肉做成的汤，模仿绿色的甲鱼汤。 soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup.
十岁的杰克和汤姆是孪生兄弟。 Ten-year-old Jack and Tom are twins.
汤姆把书推到我面前问我划线的字怎么读。 Tom pushed the book towards me and asked how to read the underlined character.
汤姆很少受到母亲全心的关怀. Tom seldom got his mother's undivided attention.
汤姆失业半年多了，他所挣的钱几乎不够糊口。 Tom was unemployed most of the year together.
汤姆因提出不利于老板的建议而被解雇。 Tom was pushed out for his unfavorable suggestion to the boss.
汤姆想对那些在报上发表文章对他的新作说三道四的人予以反击。 Tom wanted to kick back at the people who had written so unfavourably about his new book in the newspapers.
汤姆对我也很不友善。 Tom is very unfriendly to me as well.
汤姆和玛丽坐在一张桌子上打桥牌是不可思议的。 Tom and Mary at the same bridge table is unthinkable.
汤姆衣衫不整地姗姗来迟——但那不足为奇，他就是这种本性。 Tom arrived late and very untidy—but that’s Tom all over.
汤姆没有时间准备讲稿，加之他身体欠佳。 Tom had no time to prepare his lecture , besides which he was unwell.