然中英慣用例句:
  • 他顯然十分緊張，局促不安地站在話筒前有好幾分鐘。
    He was obviously were very nervous and for some minutes stood awkwardly before the microphone.
  • 我試圖掩飾初次會面時的不自然
    I tried to smooth over the awkwardness of this first meeting
  • 可是天天卻躲在裝有空調的房間裏美美地睡午覺去了，睡醒之後自然也會有一頓冰鎮地美味佳餚等着他。
    Tian Tian took a nap in his air conditioned grotto and was to have his frozen treat after he awoke, Spelman said.
  • 波西卡對他的外貌大吃了一驚，不慎一個踉蹌，幾滴油從燈上滴落到了丘比特的胸部。他突然之間被燙醒了。
    So startled was Psyche at his appearance that she stumbled a bit and several drops of oil from the lamp spattered out on Cupid's chest and burned him and he awoke suddenly.
  • 她昨晚突然跟湯姆斷交了。
    She gave Tom the ax last night.
  • 認為公理假定…為前提或公理；視…為當然
    To assume as a premise or axiom; take for granted.
  • 但戰爭不是神物，仍是世間的一種必然運動，因此，孫子的規律，“知彼知己，百戰不殆”，仍是科學的真理。
    Yet war is in no way supernatural, but a mundane process governed by necessity. That is why Sun Wu Tzu's axiom, "Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat", remains a scientific truth.
  • "他真卑鄙，阿亞圖拉真卑鄙，居然下了死刑令，"葛德華在市政府說。"如果他[拉什迪]沒有這一通廣告，他的書一定會滯銷。我聽說那本書非常枯燥。現在他會賺進數百萬，不過我希望他能活着用這筆錢。"
    "He is so vile, the Ayatollah, vile to impose the death sentence, " said Koch at City Hall. "If he(Rushdie) hadn't gotten this advertising it would be on remainder, because I'm told it's such a dull book. Now he'll make multi-millions of dollars, but I hope he'll live to spend it."
  • “他真卑鄙，阿亞圖拉真卑鄙，居然下了死刑令，”葛德華在市政府說。“如果他[拉什迪]沒有這一通廣告，他的書一定會滯銷。我聽說那本書非常枯燥。現在他會賺進數百萬，不過我希望他能活着用這筆錢。”
    "He is so vile, the Ayatollah, vile to impose the death sentence," said Koch at City Hall. "If he (Rushdie) hadn't gotten this advertising it would be on remainder, because I'm told it's such a dull book. Now he'll make multi-millions of dollars, but I hope he'll live to spend it."
  • 杜鵑花的味道喚醒了我對許多年前那個下午他突然出現的記憶。
    The scent of the azaleas awakened my memory of his unexpected appearance that afternoon years ago.
  • 是啊，雖然工作條件很重要，但我想要在有很多俏妞的地方工作。
    Yeah, work condition matter, but I want a job where there are lots of babe.
  • 是啊，雖然工作條件很重要，但我想要在有很多俏妞的地方工作。
    Yeah, work condition matter, but I want a job where there is lots of babe.
  • 施特勞斯的樂麯同巴赫的樂麯是截然不同的。
    The music of Strauss is as different from Bach's as chalk from cheese.
  • 雖然這兩種技術在主幹網方面是你死我活的競爭對手，但它們也可以是互補的。
    While the two technologies will be tough competitors in backbone network, they can be complementary.
  • 當然，這座建築有着得天獨厚的地理位置：它高踞一個呷角，三面環水，背景是著名的悉尼港大橋。
    Of course, its location is an enormous help, sitting as it does on a promontory with water on three sides and the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge as a picture-postcard backdrop.
  • 除自然風光外，雷剋雅未剋還有衆多為人熟知的城市文化：美術館、戲劇院、歌劇院、交響樂團和音樂會館，可滿足不同年齡和品位的需要。
    But against this backdrop of nature, Reykiavík has a packed program of familiar city joys too: art museums, several theaters, an opera house, a symphony orchestra and concerts spanning the whole spectrum of age and taste.
  • 在另一方面，一個人如果和自然界偉大的東西發生聯繫，他的心會真正變得偉大起來。我們可以把一片風景看做一幅活動的圖畫，而對於不象活動的圖畫那麽偉大的東西不能感到滿足；我們可以把地平綫上的熱帶的雲看做一個舞臺的背景，而對於不象舞臺的背景那麽偉大的東西不能感到滿足；我們可以把山林看做私人花園，而對於不成為私人花園的東西不能感到滿足；我們可以把怒吼的波濤當做音樂會，而對於不成為音樂會的東西不能感到滿足；我們可以把山上的微風看做冷氣設備，而對於不成為冷氣設備的東西不能感到滿足。
    On the other hand, by association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also- There is a way of looking upon a landscape as a moving picture and being satisfied with nothing less big as a moving picture, a way of looking upon tropic clouds over the horizon as the backdrop of a stage and being satisfied with nothing less big as a backdrop, a way of looking upon the mountain forests as a private garden and being satisfied with nothing less as a private garden, a way of listening to the roaring waves as a concert and being satisfied with nothing less as a concert, and a way of looking upon the mountain breeze as an air-cooling system and being satisfied with nothing less as an air-cooling system.
  • —有時是一隊隊的穿白色製服的兵士，穿灰色製服的兵士，和佩着金黃色的肩章的軍官，踏步前進，發生戰鬥，最後又退卻了，那些穿白色製服的兵士突然換上了橙黃色的製服，那些穿灰色製服的兵士似乎換上了紫色製服，而背景卻滿布着火焰般的金黃的虹色。
    now showing armies of white-clad and gray-uniformed armies and officers with golden epaulets, marching and counter-marching and united in combat and retreating again. As the battle and the chase were going on, the stage-lights changed, and the soldiers in white uniform burst out in orange and the soldiers in gray uniforms seemed to don purple, while the backdrop was a flaming iridescent gold.
  • 就像當年“新街區男孩”使他們的前輩的巨星光輝黯然失色一樣，“後街男孩”樂隊輕而易舉地超越了如“colormebadd”和“shai”的演唱組。
    Just as the New Kids eclipsed the superstardom of their predecessors, the members of New Edition-the Backstreet Boys have had little trouble surpassing vocal outfits like Color Me Badd and Shai.
  • 我知道自己把事情的前後順序都搞亂了，所以最後我回過頭來強調為什麽事情會發生得那麽突然，衹是幾個星期的事情，儘管我們之間的友誼已經存在有幾個月了。或許更長些。
    I am jumping and mixing up the time sequence I know, so I backtrack to emphasise how it has happened suddenly, over weeks really, although the friendship was there for months, longer.
  • 我們當然不會由科學的社會主義退回到空想的社會主義，也不會讓馬剋思主義停留在幾十年或一百多年前的個別論斷的水平上。
    We will not, of course, backtrack from scientific socialism to utopian socialism, nor will we allow Marxism to remain arrested at the level of the particular theses arrived at as long as a century ago.
  • 政府雖然沒有直接參與救濟事務，但卻為深入民間的志願團體提供了寶貴的“後勤”輔助資源。看來這是個明確的發展方向。
    Voluntary community organisations take the lead, while the Government provides the resources and valuable backup support—this is a development in the right direction!
  • 後衝，反撞突然或強烈的嚮後抽動
    A sudden or violent backward whipping motion.
  • 雖然技術是落後的，但制度是有效的
    The technology was backward, but the system worked.
  • 這八年多衹是開始起步，雖然已經取得比較明顯的成就，但是還沒有擺脫貧窮落後的狀態。
    In the last eight years we have only taken the first step. We have scored notable achievements in developing the economy, but we still have not shaken off poverty and backwardness.
  • 舊中國的農業發展水平極為低下，有８０％的人口長期處於饑餓半饑餓狀態，遇有自然災害，更是餓殍遍地。
    For long periods of time in the old days 80 percent of the population suffered from starvation or semi-starvation because of the extreme backwardness of agricultural production. Natural disasters nearly always resulted in wide"ispread deaths from starvation".
  • 他點燃了煤氣爐，然後開始來回地在地上踱着步。
    He lit the gas and began to pace backwards and forwards.
  • 雖然他衹是一個小青年，可他對汽車引擎卻很精通。
    Though he is just a young boy, he understands automobile engines backwards and forwards.
  • 雖然衣着隨便的加拿大人走了，但她還在想着那個住在邊遠地區的人-這個衣着考究的人。
    gone was the casually dressed Canadian she had thought a backwoodsman--this man was immaculately tailored.
  • 然而，事實是十之八九機會剛好就在你傢的後院。
    Yet,the truth is that nine out of ten times opportunity is right in your own backyard.
  • 當然，在後院燒烤整個夏天都很流行，不過在這三天，燒烤是必須做的。
    Holding backyard barbe- cues is popular all summer long, of course, but on those three days it's mandatory.
  • 那晚，蜷縮在我自己的獨有的臥室裏，凝望窗外，黑暗中，突然覺得後院變得陌生而神秘起來。我體驗着一種很奇怪的感覺，我覺得孤獨。
    That night, tucked up in my very own bedroom and staring out the window at the s uddenly mysterious and alien backyard in the darkness, I experienced a strange e motion. I was lonely.