然中英慣用例句:
  • "我們的計劃當然成功了,那是個很好的主意。"
    Our plan certainly paid off; it was a great idea.
  • 對突然出現的、意外的刺激（尤其是巨大的聲響）做出的一種復雜的、無意識的反應；伴隨有大多數骨骼肌肉的彎麯和各種內臟反應。
    a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise); involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions.
  • 這種長期的係統變化說明自然選擇的作用，並表明女性骨骼的特性較大的適應性。但是，情況完全是這樣的嗎？
    A systematic long-term change of this kind suggests the action of natural selection and indicates that female skeletal characteristics confer greater fitness. But is this the whole story.
  • 意大利一位人類生育學專傢日前宣佈，他的一位實驗對象將於明年年初生下第一個剋隆人。然而，許多科學家，甚至包括剋隆羊"多莉"之父在內，都對此表示懷疑。
    An Italian fertility expert says a patient will give birth to a cloned baby early next year but experts, including one who helped create Dolly the sheep, are skeptical.
  • 大多數警察對陪審團參與的審判持有一種天然的懷疑態度。他們更喜歡地方法院所作出的即刻的判决，因為在地方法院定罪率可達90％。
    Most policemen have a natural skepticism about jury trial. They prefer the rough justice of the magistrates' court where there is a 90pecent conviction rate.
  • 雖然如此，如果一隻莽叢中的野獸跑到都市來，知道人類生活的匆忙是為了什麽目的，那麽，它對這個人類社會一定會發生很大的疑惑。
    Nevertheless, if a jungle beast were lei loose in a city and gained some apprehension of what busy human life was all about, he would feel a good deal of skepticism and bewilderment about this human society.
  • 那個國傢仍然處於落後狀態。
    The country is still in a backward state.
  • 他雖然很聰明，卻不善發表他的意見。
    Although he is clever, he is backward in giving his views.
  • 粗略的計算；計劃的詳細情況仍然不完整。
    a sketchy account; details of the plan remain sketchy.
  • 雖然詳情起初不甚瞭瞭，但人們很快發現分裂的根源在於羅伯遜和勒基特對馬修·諾爾斯執掌樂隊逐漸不滿。
    Though details were at first sketchy,it soon emerged that the root of the split lay in Luckett's and Roberson's growing discomfort in regard to Mathew Knowles' management of the group.
  • 先於左邊的滑雪板嚮前滑，然後滑右邊的。
    Slide the left ski forward and then the right.
  • 抵押價格下跌，然後達到穩定水平
    Mortgage rates declined, then reached a plateau.
  • 我們最好催促司機快開，不然要遲到了。
    We have better putting the skid under the driver or we'll be late.
  • 我們最好催促司機快開,不然要遲到了
    We had better put the skid under the driver or we 'll be late
  • 馬匹停下腳步喘了喘氣，押車衛士下來給車輪拉緊了剎車，然後打開車門讓旅客上去。
    The horses stopped to breathe again, and the guard got down to skid the wheel for the descent, and open the coach-door to let the passengers in.
  • 然而在一個雨夜——一輛卡車在路上打滑了——那女孩的生命就從他的夢中被奪走了。
    But there had come a rainy night--a truck skidding on a slippery road--and the life was crushed out of his dream.
  • 但任何一種天氣對誰來說更“糟糕”呢？對沐日光浴的人？對滑雪者？對西紅柿？對鴨子？顯然，不管哪種天氣對某些人和某些目的是有利的，所以為什麽要標明某種天氣是好是壞呢？對人人有害的天氣是沒有的。
    But for whom is any weather "worse"? Sunbathers? Skiers? Tomatoes? Ducks? Obviously any weather is good for some people and purposes, so why label it? It's an ill wind.
  • 然後，天主反火和硫磺象雨一般灑落在所多瑪和蛾摩拉那裏。他把這兩座城市夷為平地，摧毀了整個平原。
    And then the Lord rained down fire and brimstone from the skies on Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • 在這種危險突然出現在我們的空中和城市之前，在它初露端倪的時候，我們將應對這種威脅。
    We choose to meet that threat now where it arises, before it can appear suddenly in our skies and cities.
  • "然而，重要的是不要忘記這與技術本身是無關的，問題在於如何使用因特網。"這項研究的發起人之一、心理學家、英特爾公司的剋裏斯廷・賴利說。
    "But it's important to remember this is not about the technology, per se; It's about how it is used, " says psychologist Christine Riley of Intel, one of the study's sponsors.
  • 雖然馬來亞大學的辯手錶現不俗，不過，西安交通大學的辯手實力平均，個個能言善辯、口齒伶俐、反應靈敏、即使無卡在手，也能滔滔不絶，而且出口成章。
    The Malaysian debaters did a good job.All being skilful orators, the Chinese team were so eloquent and quick-witted that, without aid from card notes, their words flowed forth liberally to become polished impromptu speeches.
  • 這是由於廣大的幹部適時地接受了中央的正確指導和靈活地觀察情況而獲得的，雖然曾經在中央和一部分軍事幹部之間發生過嚴重的爭論。
    The reason is that the great majority of our cadres accepted the correct guidance of the Central Committee in good time and skilfully sized up the actual situation, even though there were serious arguments between the Central Committee and some of the army cadres.
  • 據說有一天朱諾看到天空突然烏雲密佈，就料想這一定是她丈夫興起一團雲來遮蓋自己的放蕩勾當。
    It is said that Juno one day, perceiving the skies suddenly overcast, surmised that her husband had raised a cloud to hide some escapade.
  • 他雖然自有主張，但並不輕視別人的意見。
    He's his own man, but he doesn't ignore advice.
  • 如果你忽視自己的飲食，必然會遇到麻煩
    If you ignore your diet, trouble will follow.
  • 誠然，巴勒斯坦民族權力機構存在腐敗現象，我手下的許多人時不時撈取幾千塊錢，但跟貴國鬧得沸沸揚揚的那些事情相比是小巫見大巫了。
    Sure, we have corruption in the PA -- many of my people skim off the top a few thousands here and there -- but nothing on the scale of what's been making the news on your side of the world.
  • 孝敬老母，付清帳單之後，你衹剩下十元，當然，這是說如果你節儉的話。
    Out of which,after supporting your mother,and paying your bills,you’re able to keep,say,ten,if you skimp.
  • 她此刻雖然還不需要你的錢買衣料，但她很喜歡，比自己的錢買的，或者是我買給她的還要高興，為的是你能記着她的生日，而且能夠用自己勞力所得的錢買給她一份的禮物，不過她再三囑咐，你把月中餘剩的錢存積起來，雖然不錯，但自己的身體健康方面，不可疏忽，應該吃什麽補品，就要買吃，不可太儉。
    Although she does not as yet need your money for her dress, she is extremely happy, as she values your gift even more than if she had bought the dress herself, or even if I had bought it for her. This is because you remember her birthday; moreover you have bought this gift for her with money which you have earned by the sweat of your own labour. But she exhorts you repeatedly that, although it is a good thing to be able to save whatever surplus money you can each month, you should never skimp on taking care of your own health. You should spend on whatever nutrition supplement that you require and should not thrift over these.
  • 他的父母老早就告訴他是個領養的孩子，是啊，要不然怎麽解釋一個黑頭髮、棕色皮膚的南部意大利人後裔的家庭會有一個白皮膚、黃頭髮、藍眼睛的孩子呢？
    His parents had always made it clear to him that he was adopted; indeed, how else to explain pale skin, flaxen hair and blue eyes in a family of dark-haired olive-skinned descendants of southern Italians?
  • 他聽到汽車剎車發出的尖銳的聲音，然後就摔倒了。
    He heard a screech of brakes and then fell down.
  • 這位新隊長顯然是個勇猛的人，至少在和敵人交戰時是這樣。
    Obviously this new skipper was a bear cat, at least insofar as getting into action with the enemy was concerned.
  • 不過，這是假設高等教育對嚮上升遷仍然起關鍵作用一這是個很大的疑問。有人警告說，他預見過不了多長時間，當學位不那麽受重視時，不上大學而去工作，可能是比較明智的職業選擇。
    But that's assuming higher education remains the key to upward mobility--a big "if", warn some, who foresee a time not too distant when degrees are not so prized, and skipping college might be a wiser career choice.