说中英慣用例句:
| - 我給母親發電報說我已安全抵達。
I sent a telegram to my mother saying that I had arrived safely. - 比爾對湯姆所說的打籃球比踢足球安全些的話表示懷疑。
Bill called in question Tom's remark that basketball is safer than football. - 你算說對了。
You said it. - 說他以前是臺灣最有錢的人。
He is said to have been the richest man in Taiwan. - 我現在不是為了說話而說話,我要說的事很重要!
I'm not talking for talking's sake; this is important! - 那個推銷員試圖說服她買他的東西。
The salesman tried to persuade her to buy his goods. - 冒險對某些人來說是生活中的刺激。
Adventure is the salt of life to some people. - 對某些人來說,冒險是生活的刺激。
Adventure is the salt of life to some men. - 他稱贊我工作好,剛說完這話就讓我離職。
He praised my work and in the same breath told me I would have to leave. - 點頭就等於說“贊同”。
Nodding your head is equivalent to saying “yes”. - "然而,生活在農場上就不能這樣說了。"
"The same cannot be said about living on farms, however." - "跟我母親說你不喜歡她的衣服,那可真是個好主意,"她諷刺地說。
"It was a good idea to tell my mother you didn't like her dress", she said with sarcasm. - 他整夜都在寫小說, 沒有闔眼。
He sat up all night writing the novel. - 但耶穌卻說:“去吧,撒旦!”
But Jesus said, "Begone, Satan! " - 評論一本小說的時候,你應想辦法刺激而不是滿足讀者的興趣。
In review a novel, you shall try to titillate rather than satiate the reader's interest. - 我無法使他們相信我說的是實話。
I was unable to satisfy them of the truth of my story. - 對他來說,生活似乎已失去了一切樂趣。
Life seems to have lost most of its savor for him. - 對他來說,生活似乎已失去了一切樂趣。
Life seems to have lost most of its savour for him. - "為了我的職業名譽,"薩剋斯頓先生說,"我在接案子時特別謹慎。越是有可能導致窘境的案子,我越不想接手。"
"For the sake of my professional reputation, " said Mr Saxton, I am very careful about accepting a case. The more it looks like a Queer Street, the more I an inclined to leave it alone. - 要有禮貌, 說"請", "謝謝你"。
Be polite and say "Please" and "Thank you ". - 用英語再說一遍。
Say it again in English. - 把你的想法說出來。
Say what you think . - 餘下的數目不大, 姑且說, 衹有十個罷。
The number left was not great, say, only ten. - 他說他想去城裏。
He said he wanted to go to town. - 主人在離傢前什麽也沒說。
"Before the master left home, he didn't say anything." - “我要去城裏了”,他說。
‘I'm going to town', he said. - 他被法庭判為無罪,那就是說,法庭依法律不能定他的罪。(縮寫為: i.e.)
He was found innocent in the court, that is to say, the court could not convict him legally. - "這就是說,男人統治世界,但男人們的母親和妻子統治着他們。"
"That is to say, men rule the world, but their mothers and wives rule them." - 聽說總裁昨天收到一封匿名信。
The president is said to receive an anonymous letter yesterday. - 說是一回事,做又是另一回事。
Saying is one thing, and doing is another. - 想不到他竟然說出這種話來。
Fancy her saying a thing like that! - 我能隔着墻聽見他在電話裏說了些什麽。
I could hear what he was saying on the phone through the partition.
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