说中英惯用例句:
| - 不过,一般来说,候选人们所表现的是他们宁可依靠令人不胜其烦的陈腔滥调也不愿去了解并面对现实。在经济问题方面,这次辩论完全不及格。
In general, though, the candidates showed that they would rather rely on tediously familiar rhetoric than come to grips with reality. On economics, the debated gets an F-minus. - 我从他说话的声音就怀疑他不怀好意。
I suspected from his voice that he meant mischief. - 马克吐温小说中的淘气男孩。
a mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain. - 他说他无法弥补他所有的罪过。
He said that he could not at one for all his misdeeds. - 彬格莱先生心里非常不安,他的姐姐和妹妹也说是十分担忧。
Bingley was quite uncomfortable; his sisters declared that they were miserable. - 解放前他们受过说不完的苦。
They suffered untold misery before liberation. - 瞎说,你准是听错了。
Nonsense, you must have misheard. - 就说他是老实的,他了解的情况也可能不准确。
Granting his honesty, he may have heen misinformed. - 我并不想跟你顶嘴,我只是想说你听到的话是搞错了。
I did not mean to answer you back . I merely meant to say that you had been misinformed. - 我并不想跟你顶嘴,我只是想说你听到的话是搞错了。
I didn't mean to answer you back, I merely meant to say that you had been misinformed. - 我觉得我得把我说的话改得具体些,以免产生误解。
I feel I must qualify my earlier remarks in case they are misinterpret. - 兜售房屋的广告常常以骗人的说明使买方上当受骗。
Advertisements for houses for sale often lead buyers on with misleading description. - 你所说的话颇容易引起误解。
Your words were rather misleading. A. - 这些说法有时令人误解。
It sometimes becomes that these accounts are misleading. - 从某种意义上说,她是受到了广告的哄骗,因此对此产品期望过高。
In a sense she was misled by the advertisement's claims, and expected too much of the product. - 说的时候要注意,避免发错音。
Take care in your speaking to guard against mispronunciation. - 我把说明书看错了.
I misread the instructions/what the instructions said. - 指控说这个节目的制作者们要么有意地歪曲了节目的性质,要么就是在制作过程中愚蠢地改变了节目的目的——或者两种情况都有。当然,指控是否成立,还要看法官的裁决。
The charge is that the producers of the programme either deliberately misrepresented its nature, or foolishly slid into changing its purpose during production--or both. Of course, it is a matter of judgement whether the charge is made to stick. - 报纸歪曲了作家所说的话。
The newspaper misrepresented what the writer had said. - 报纸歪曲了我所说的话。
The newspaper misrepresented what I had said. - 据说他失踪了。
He is said to be missing. - 我不能说明丢失的钱。
I can't account for the missing money. - 对于一个信教的人来说,灵魂的得救要远比生命的得救重要得多,但他不会因此而把传教士或牧师称为生产性劳动者,除非他们象“南海布教团”有时所做的那样,除传教以外还传授文明世界的生产技艺。
To a religious person the saving of a soul must appear a far more important service than the saving of a life; but he will not therefore call a missionary or a clergyman productive labourers, unless they teach, as the South Sea Missionaries have in some cases done, the arts of civilization in addition to the doctrines of their religion. - "你们没有必要非要当传教士--在这个世界上每个人都可以为帮助其他人做些事情。"贝蒂小姐说。
"You don't have to be a missionary--everyone can do something in this world to help another,"Miss Betty said. - "对不起,"我回答说,"我告诉你我是不轻易相信人的,你得拿出证据给我看。"
"Pardon me, " I replied, "when I tell you that I'm from Missouri. You'll have to show me." - 可以说,从一九五七年开始我们的主要错误是“左”,“文大革命”是极左。
I would say that since 1957 our major mistakes have been "Left" ones. The "cultural revolution" was an ultra-Left mistake. - 他说的常被误解。
What he says is often mistaken. - 我敢说你错了。
I should say you were mistaken. - 他抓着我的手继续说:"你知道吗,先生?
He grabbed my hand and said, "You know something, mister? - 一般来说,格林先生给我提供的建议都是很好的。可是这次他让我买那个电脑公司的股票却是个馊主意。我不得不按原价抛出,结果损失了一千美元。
Mister Green usually gives me good advice. But the computer company stock he told me to buy was a lemon. I had to sell it at the price I have paid for it and lost a thousand dollars. - “他告诉我说如果万一我丈夫亏待我,我应该记住我永远是他的女儿,他永远欢迎我回去,”苏蒂拉吉丝回忆说。
"He told me that if ever my husband should mistreat me, I should remember that I would always be his daughter, that I would always be welcomed back to his home." Sotirakis recalled. - 女仆告诉我说,她的女主人不在家。
The servant tell me that her mistress is not at home.
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