说中英惯用例句:
| - 我给母亲发电报说我已安全抵达。
I sent a telegram to my mother saying that I had arrived safely. - 比尔对汤姆所说的打篮球比踢足球安全些的话表示怀疑。
Bill called in question Tom's remark that basketball is safer than football. - 你算说对了。
You said it. - 据说他以前是台湾最有钱的人。
He is said to have been the richest man in Taiwan. - 我现在不是为了说话而说话,我要说的事很重要!
I'm not talking for talking's sake; this is important! - 那个推销员试图说服她买他的东西。
The salesman tried to persuade her to buy his goods. - 冒险对某些人来说是生活中的刺激。
Adventure is the salt of life to some people. - 对某些人来说,冒险是生活的刺激。
Adventure is the salt of life to some men. - 他称赞我工作好,刚说完这话就让我离职。
He praised my work and in the same breath told me I would have to leave. - 点头就等于说“赞同”。
Nodding your head is equivalent to saying “yes”. - "然而,生活在农场上就不能这样说了。"
"The same cannot be said about living on farms, however." - "跟我母亲说你不喜欢她的衣服,那可真是个好主意,"她讽刺地说。
"It was a good idea to tell my mother you didn't like her dress", she said with sarcasm. - 他整夜都在写小说, 没有阖眼。
He sat up all night writing the novel. - 但耶稣却说:“去吧,撒旦!”
But Jesus said, "Begone, Satan! " - 评论一本小说的时候,你应想办法刺激而不是满足读者的兴趣。
In review a novel, you shall try to titillate rather than satiate the reader's interest. - 我无法使他们相信我说的是实话。
I was unable to satisfy them of the truth of my story. - 对他来说,生活似乎已失去了一切乐趣。
Life seems to have lost most of its savor for him. - 对他来说,生活似乎已失去了一切乐趣。
Life seems to have lost most of its savour for him. - "为了我的职业名誉,"萨克斯顿先生说,"我在接案子时特别谨慎。越是有可能导致窘境的案子,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. - 要有礼貌, 说"请", "谢谢你"。
Be polite and say "Please" and "Thank you ". - 用英语再说一遍。
Say it again in English. - 把你的想法说出来。
Say what you think . - 余下的数目不大, 姑且说, 只有十个罢。
The number left was not great, say, only ten. - 他说他想去城里。
He said he wanted to go to town. - 主人在离家前什么也没说。
"Before the master left home, he didn't say anything." - “我要去城里了”,他说。
‘I'm going to town', he said. - 他被法庭判为无罪,那就是说,法庭依法律不能定他的罪。(缩写为: i.e.)
He was found innocent in the court, that is to say, the court could not convict him legally. - "这就是说,男人统治世界,但男人们的母亲和妻子统治着他们。"
"That is to say, men rule the world, but their mothers and wives rule them." - 听说总裁昨天收到一封匿名信。
The president is said to receive an anonymous letter yesterday. - 说是一回事,做又是另一回事。
Saying is one thing, and doing is another. - 想不到他竟然说出这种话来。
Fancy her saying a thing like that! - 我能隔着墙听见他在电话里说了些什么。
I could hear what he was saying on the phone through the partition.
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