年中英慣用例句:
  • 與一年前同期比較，二零零一年第一及第二季本地生産總值雖然仍錄得溫和的實質增長，增幅分別為2.2%及0.8%，但在第三及第四季已告回落，分別下跌0.4%及1.6%。
    GDP registered modest increases by 2.2 per cent and 0.8 per cent respectively in real terms in the first two quarters of 2001 over a year earlier, before receding to declines of 0.4 per cent in the third quarter and 1.6 per cent in the fourth quarter.
  • 由於整體經濟狀況逐步改善以及就業情況漸趨穩定，本地消費開支在一九九九年第二季回升，在第三季及第四季更進一步增強。
    As overall economic conditions progressively improved and as the employment situation gradually stabilised, local consumer spending resumed positive growth by the second quarter of 1999 and strengthened further in the third and fourth quarters.
  • 因此，失業人數上升，股市下挫，物業市道也較諸高峰期大幅下降，旅遊業的生意也大跌。香港今年第一季經濟出現負增長，經濟睏境在未來幾季會持續下去。
    Therefore, unemployment has risen, stock prices have fallen and property market has declined very substantially from the peak. Tourism has also fallen off sharply, Hong Kong's economy recorded negative growth in the first quarter. The economy will continue to be difficult for a number of quarters to come.
  • 在接受訪問時，他將蘇聯上月試飛成功的氫動力民航機比作1957年發射斯普特尼剋。“我們又一次錯過機會，”他說，“我們衹能希望下一屆政府比這一屆更註意氫［動力］”。
    In an interview, he compared the flight of the hydrogen-powered Soviet airliner last month to the launching of Sputnick in 1957. "Once again we've missed the boat," he said, "and we can only hope that the next administration will be more interested in hydrogen than this one has been."
  • 前聯邦航空局事故調查部門負責人約翰·卡拉漢說，中央情報局官員曾指示他隱瞞1986年11月18日一架日本民航客機在阿拉斯加州安剋雷奇附近遭遇一不明飛行物的真相。
    John Callahan,a former FAA division chief of accidents and investigations,said he was directed by CIA officers to cover up a Nov.18,1986,incident involving a UFO and a Japanese airliner near Anchorage,Alaska.
  • 少年因損壞了傢中唯一的汽車而遭到嚴厲的懲罰
    The teenager was drawn and quartered for wrecking the family's only car.
  • 乘飛機的旅客數每年都快速增長。
    The number of airline passengers is growing rapidly every year.
  • 這種雜志一年發行四期。
    This magazine comes out quarterly.
  • 50.《自然資源論壇》是聯合國與牛津布萊剋韋爾出版社出版的季刊，將把其2003年(5月)年度專刊題獻給2003年國際淡水年。
    50. The Natural Resources Forum, a quarterly journal published by the United Nations with Blackwell Publishing in Oxford, will dedicate its annual special issue for 2003 (May) to the International Year of Freshwater, 2003.
  • 從那時起，公司曾犯下了某些錯誤，這是事實－筆記本電腦的設計在某點上脫離了常軌，使得戴爾取消了大多數生産綫，導致了公司在1993年一個季度的損失。
    Since then, the company has made mistakes, sure--the design of its notebook computers got so off track at one point that Dell canceled most of the line, leading to the company's only quarterly loss, in 1993.
  • 15歲那年，他參加約瑟夫·蘭納(1801—1843)的咖啡館四重奏樂隊。蘭納本人就是一個傑出的圓舞麯作麯傢。
    At the age of fifteen he joined the cafe quartet of Joseph Lanner (1801-1843), himself an outstanding waltz composer.
  • 去年，唐四重奏和化生藝術團合作跨界舞臺《想像的森林》，也明顯準備不足。
    Imagine Forest, a joint effort by Arts Fission Company and the T’ang Quartet, showed clearly that the preparations were inadequate.
  • 這支四人組合成立將近10年，成員依然處於十幾歲的花季，但她們展示了可與兩倍於自己年齡的樂壇宿將們相媲美的出色專業水準。
    Almost a decade into its existence,the quartet whose members are still in their teens exhibits a solid professionalism comparable to that of veterans twice their age.
  • 貝多芬在這段充滿煩惱的晚年時期寫出了代表他天才頂峰的最後五部偉大的鋼琴奏鳴麯、《第九交響麯》和後期的弦樂四重奏。
    The last five great piano sonatas, the Ninth Symphony and the later string quartets represent the climax of Beethoven's genius during this troubled later period.
  • 上訴法院宣佈少年法院發出的照看命令無效。
    The appeal court quash the care order make by the juvenile court.
  • 長達200萬年的第四紀期間，全球海平面受到兩極地區幾次大冰期的影響，曾下降至現時海平面之下120米，當時的海岸綫離開現時本港海岸達130公裏。
    During the Quaternary period, spanning the last 2 million years, major glaciations in polar regions affected global sea level, which fell to 120metres below present level, leaving the site of present-day Hong Kong as much as 130 kilometres from the coast.
  • 沿河街道上有五、六座這樣的大廈，諸如與貝爾納丹修道院共用小塔旁邊大院墻的洛林公館，再如納勒公館，其主塔正好是巴黎的標界，那黑色三角形的尖形屋頂一年當中有三個月把殷紅的夕陽遮住了一角。
    There were five or six of these mansions on the quay, from the house of Lorraine, which shared with the Bernardins the grand enclosure adjoining the Tournelle, to the Hotel de Nesle,whose principal tower ended Paris, and whose pointed roofs were in a position, during three months of the year, to encroach, with their black triangles, upon the scarlet disk of the setting sun.
  • 碼頭、湖濱馬路、公園、精美的店鋪、熱鬧的街道、老城區的小街小巷及其2000年的歷史，都等待人們去探尋。
    Quays,lakeside promenades,parks,elegant stores and lively streets and alleyways in the old part of town and its 2000-year history wait to be discovered.
  • 到1988年，席琳已在自己的家乡quebec省建立起響亮的名聲。
    1988, Celine had made a name for herself in her hometown in Quebec.
  • 幾百年前的事，老話
    When Queen Anne was alive.
  • （公元前69－30年）埃及王後。
    (69-30 BC) queen of Egypt.
  • 我完全相信這些交易到明年會使我們陷入睏境。
    I fully expect these commitments will put us in Queer Street next year.
  • 公元744年，發展壯大了的回鶻於漠北建立政權，並兩次出兵幫助唐朝中央政權平息“安史之亂”。
    In 744, the Uighur founded a khanate in Mobei, and later dispatched troops twice to help the Tang central authorities to quell the An Lushan-Shi Siming Rebellion.
  • 1956年匈牙利起義很快被殘酷的蘇聯軍隊鎮壓了下去
    The 1956 uprising in Hungary was soon quelled by ruthless Soviet military action.
  • 兩年後，清朝平定伊斯蘭教白山派首領大、小和卓(大和卓波羅泥都、小和卓霍集占)叛亂，鞏固了對西域各地的軍政統轄。
    Two years later, it quelled a rebellion launched by the Islamic Aktaglik Sect leaders Burhanidin and Hojajahan, thus consolidating its military and administrative jurisdiction over all parts of the Western Regions.
  • 現在中國局勢穩定，一個是由於處理一九八九年那場動亂時堅持社會主義，一點也不動搖；再一個是由於堅持改革開放。
    The situation in China is now stable. That is because, for one thing, we resolutely adhered to socialism when we quelled the unrest in 1989 and because, for another, we have persisted in the policies of reform and opening to the outside world.
  • 1959年叛亂平息後，中央人民政府順應西藏人民的願望，在西藏進行了民主改革，廢除了極端腐朽、黑暗的封建農奴制度，百萬農奴和奴隸翻身解放，不再被作為農奴主的個人財産加以買賣、轉讓、交換、抵債，不再被農奴主強迫勞動，從此獲得了人身自由的權利。
    After the quelling of the armed rebellion in 1959, the central people's government, in compliance with the wishes of the Tibetan people, conducted the Democratic Reform in Tibet and abolished the extremely decadent and dark feudal serfdom. The million serfs and slaves were emancipated. They were no longer regarded as the personal property of serf-owners who could use them for transactions, transfer, mortgage for a debt or exchange or exact their toil. From that time on they gained the right to personal freedom.
  • 米爾和我在一起生活了39年，直到他1989年去世。
    Milt and I were married for 39 years, until his death in 1989.
  • 新加坡是一個年輕的國傢，創新精神與對發展執着的追求是它充滿活力的法寶。
    As a young nation, Singapore holds a recipe for sustained youth and vigour: the spirit of innovation with a persistent quest for development.
  • 儘管對剋隆人的抗議將此事與當年原子彈的危害相比，但一個由不同國傢的科學家組成的工作小組宣佈，首例剋隆人計劃將於兩年內完成。
    An international panel of scientists declared that the first human clone will be complete within two years, despite protests comparing the quest with the perils of the atomic bomb.
  • 並非婚姻全都沒有愛。1517年對牧師是否應禁欲都表示懷疑的馬丁·路德，卻對婚姻改變了態度。
    Not all marriages were without love, but it was Martin Luther, who in 1517 quest ioned whether it was necessary for a priest to be celibate, who changed attitude s to wedlock.
  • 我們原計劃今年出國，但現在必須取消這個計劃，因為我沒有錢。
    We planned to go abroad this year, but now we had to scrub it because we've got no money.