一中英惯用例句:
  • 家庭规模缩小了--如今的一对父母平均仅拥有1.3个孩子，而且更多的母亲在外工作。
    Family sizes have shrunk---today's parents have an average of only l.3 children and more mothers are working outside the home.
  • 由于不需要设计复杂的asic，甚至潜在地不需要印制电路板设计，网络处理器也将有助于进一步缩短产品开发周期，实际上最近几年开发周期已经缩短了50%。
    By eliminating the need for complex ASIC design and potentially even printed circuit board design, network processors will also help further reduce product development cycles, which have already shrunk by up to 50% in recent years.
  • 海底隧道及香港仔隧道于一九九三年八月装设自动收费系统；狮子山隧道、东区海底隧道、大老山隧道及西区海底隧道也分别于一九九四年八月、一九九五年九月、一九九六年五月及一九九七年四月装设自动收费系统；而城门隧道及将军澳隧道，也于一九九七年十月装设了自动收费系统。至于大榄隧道及青屿干线的自动收费系统，则分别于一九九八年六月和七月装设。
    Automatic toll collection systems (auto systems) were installed at the Cross-Harbour and Aberdeen Tunnels in August 1993, Lion Rock Tunnel in August 1994, Eastern Harbour Crossing in September 1995, Tate's Cairn Tunnel in May 1996, Western Harbour Crossing in April 1997, Shing Mun Tunnels and Tseung Kwan O Tunnel in October 1997, Tai Lam Tunnel in June 1998 and Lantau Link in July 1998.
  • 因为这样一来，就使得他底面容变得极其萎缩呆板了，这是必然的；
    for mat puts his face into a most shrunken and wooden posture; as needs it must;
  • 要是从人们底心中取去了虚妄的自是，自谀的希望，错误的评价，武断的想象，就会使许多人底心变成一种可怜的、缩小的东西，充满忧郁和疾病，自己看起来也讨厌。
    Doth any man doubt,mat if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like; but it would leave the minds,of a number of men, poor shrunken things;
  • 十五岁时，他开始有充裕的时间在多伦多一家著名的喜剧俱乐部“亚克亚克斯”进行表演，在那儿他得以完善自己的特殊才能。
    At 15 though,he had enough time to start performing at Yuk Yuks,a famous Toronto comedy club where he began to perfect his shtick.
  • 那种东西一文不值。
    It's not worth shucks.
  • 有些专家认为，扩展已安装的rdbms的最好方法是增加对复杂数据类型的支持，建立万能服务器——一种让用户访问复杂的数据类型（包括与特殊数据有关的功能）和支持开放的、可扩展的用户定义数据类型的rdbms。
    Aberdeen Grup believes the best way to extend installed RDBMSs is to add support for complex data types, creating a Universal Server -- an RDBMS that allows users to access complex data types (including functions related to particular data types) and to support open, extensible user-defined data types.
  • 把一些蔬菜的壳去掉。
    remove the shucks from, as of certain vegetables.
  • 一想到，他就不寒而栗。
    He shudder at the bare thought.
  • 想一想不得不在这样的条件下生活而且与五六个人共住一个房间的情景吧！我想到这就不寒而栗。
    Imagine having to live in such conditions and sleep five or six to a room! I shudder to think of it.
  • 94.确实，他们在探险中遇到了极具威胁性的困难和危险，而他们的装备会让一个现代登山者想一想都会浑身颤栗。不过他们并不是刻意去追求刺激的。
    94. It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement.
  • 他一想起那件事就不寒而栗。
    He shuddered at the memory.
  • 从沿海的阿伯丁，有一条古堡之路，一直蜿蜒到格兰扁山区深处。沿途很多昔日的要塞，都是苏格兰历史上不断反抗邻近的英格兰统治的见证。
    From coastal Aberdeen in towards the interior of the Grampian Mountains there runs the Castle Trail, a road that touches on many fortresses, which are witnesses of continual revolts against the dominion of neighboring England in Scottish history.
  • 他一见到教师就发抖。
    He shuddered to see his teacher.
  • 我一想到它就发抖。
    I shuddered at thinking of it.
  • 她一看见血，就吓得发抖。
    She shuddered at the sight of blood.
  • 一想起那他就不寒而栗。
    He shuddered at the bare idea of it.
  • 这个老太太一想起她的房子曾失过火就害怕极了。
    The old lady shudders at the thought of fire in her house.
  • 她一想起她母亲的惨死就不寒而栗。
    She couldn't help shuddering at the bare thought of her mother's tragic death.
  • 那位受害者一想到这幢楼里发生的火灾就不寒而栗。
    The victim shuddered at the thought of fire in this building.
  • 她一想到被一个人留在那间黑屋子里就吓得发抖。
    She shuddered to think of being left alone in the dark room.
  • 我觉得我同伴的胳膊在不停地抽搐，像是有一股寒流突然穿过他的全身。
    From time to time, I felt my companion's arm tremble convulsively, as though a series of shudders had suddenly coursed through him.
  • 其时，英国的维新党政府下台，新上任的保守党外务大臣阿巴甸勋爵于一八四一年修改给予砵甸乍爵士的训令，撤回割地的要求。
    In the meantime, the Whig Government in England had fallen and, in 1841, the new Tory Foreign Secretary, Lord Aberdeen, issued revised instructions to Pottinger, dropping the demand for an island.
  • 不要把文件混在一起。
    Don't shuffle the papers together.
  • 二零零一年，规划署展开了四项研究，分别是香港仔港湾专题研究、行人设施规划研究、二零零一年跨界旅运统计研究，以及香港具景观价值地点研究。
    The Planning Department commenced four studies in 2001, namely, Focus Study on Aberdeen Harbour; Study on Planning for Pedestrians; Cross Boundary Travel Survey 2001; and Landscape Value Mapping of Hong Kong.
  • 不要闪烁其辞，给一个明确的答复。
    Do not shuffle , give a clear answer.
  • 香港仔隧道在一九八二年启用，全长1.9公里，连接港岛南北。年内每日行车量6万架次，每程收费5元。
    The Aberdeen Tunnel, opened in 1982, links the north and south sides of Hong Kong Island. It measures 1.9 kilometres and was used by 60 000vehicles daily in 1997. The toll was $5.
  • 他企图逃跑，因为这是他推卸责任的惟一机会。
    He tried to run away because that was the only opportunity to shuffle off his responsibility.
  • 在我去见上帝以前，我想至少去罗马一次。
    I'd like to go to Rome at least once before I shuffle off this mortal coil.
  • 香港仔隧道连接港岛南北，在一九八二年启用，全长1.9公里，每程收费五元，年内平均每日行车量达58000架次。
    The Aberdeen Tunnel, opened in 1982, links the northern and southern parts of Hong Kong Island. It measures 1.9 kilometres and was used by 58 000 vehicles daily in 1998. The toll was $5.
  • “相反的，不快乐的人总是拖着脚，步子很小，走得很慢，一幅没精打采、萎靡不振的样子。”
    "In contrast, unhappy people shuffle their feet, take tiny steps, walk slowly, and slouch."