一中英惯用例句:
  • 卡莫拉秘密组织1820年左右组建的一个那不勒斯人秘密组织，以实行暴力和敲诈而臭名昭著
    A Neapolitan secret society organized about1820, notorious for practicing violence and blackmail.
  • 而这一事实进一步强调了我们不能在讹诈的威胁下生活。
    And this very fact underscores the reason we cannot live under the threat of blackmail.
  • 他收到要求一百万美元的恐吓信；警方说那是一件勒索。
    He received a threatening letter demanding $1, 000, 000, and the police said it was blackmail.
  • “人民力量”在菲律宾人民心目中已成为威胁、对付政府的武器，这是对民主本质的一大威胁，可能使总统选举成为有名无实的民主活动。
    For Filipinos, “people power” has become a weapon to blackmail and attack the government. It has become a threat to democracy and may render the presidential election an exercise in futility.
  • 勒索者把他的钱榨得一乾二净.
    The blackmailers bled him for every penny he had.
  • 勒索者企图向他勒索一大笔钱。
    The blackmailer tried to extort a large sum of money from him.
  • 　尤恩·麦格雷格的任务是跟踪一个凶残的敲诈者(阿什莉·贾德饰演)。
    Ewan McGregor is on a mission to shadow[2] a murderous blackmailer played by Ashley Judd.
  • 如果我们向敲诈者让步，他会再来敲诈一百元。
    If we give in to the blackmailer, he will return to squeeze out another hundred later.
  • 寄生在劳动大众身上的富裕阶级；扼死了树的寄生藤；吸血的敲诈者；他那懒惰的、寄生虫一样的生活。
    a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses; parasitic vines that strangle the trees; bloodsucking blackmailer; his indolent leechlike existence.
  • 你走了,也带走了我天空的太阳,我的世界一片黑暗.-----《悲惨世界》
    You walked, also taking the sun of my the sky, my world one blackness.-----"Pathetic world"
  • 事故发生后，他晕过去一阵子。
    He had had a blackout after the accident.
  • 灯火管制法规一直实行到第二次世界大战结束。
    Blackout regulations were in force for the duration of the Second World War.
  • 在相同时间内，书本不会像计算机那样损害你的眼睛。书本不会因为你偶尔按错一个键而消失，也不会因为突然停电而无影无踪。
    They won’t hurt your eyes as the computers will in the same amount of time, they won’t be gone because you have touched a wrong key accidentally, they won’t disappear because of a sudden blackout, either.
  • "我们很高兴看到这些突破，"他又说，"可是我们不要电视观众和社会一般人士认为，因为有几个黑人成功了就可以原谅对其余黑人所有的污辱、所有的伤害以及所有丧失的机会。"
    "We are glad to see the breakthroughs, " he added, "but we don't want the television audience, society in general, to think that a few blacks making it can excuse all of the indignities, all the injuries, all of the lack of opportunities for all the rest of the blacks."
  • "黑人总是一个难吸收的群体。
    "Blacks have always been the indigestible mass.
  • [谚]两黑不等于一白；两个错误不等于一个正确。
    Two blacks do not make a white.
  • 一个现在被认为是蔑称的用于美国黑人的术语。
    a US term for Blacks that is now considered offensive.
  • 一种由美国南部的黑人创制的宗教歌曲。
    a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern US.
  • 黑人是否会和其他少数民族一样汇入大融炉仍然有争执。
    Whether blacks will follow other minorities into the melting pot remains a subject of debate.
  • 虽然在1994年和1998年之间黑人和操西班牙语移民的计算机拥有量翻了一翻，但在家庭上网的白人与黑人之间的差距，以及白与操西班牙语的移民之间的差距仍以50%的速度增加。
    Even though computer penetration for blacks and Hispanics more than doubled between 1994 and 1998, the gap in household access to the Internet blacks and whites and His panics and whites grew by more than 50 percent.
  • 那是第一次黑人和白人在一个主要音乐团同台演出。
    It was the first time that blacks and whites performed together in a major musical group.
  • 如今黑人艺员的前途一片光明，但是华盛顿还是认为，其他种族的演员也应该继续努力争取创造出更多有影响力的银幕形象。
    Now that a trail has been blazed for Blacks, he suggested, other minority actors must continue to fight for more significant roles.
  • 60年代末，美国激进派黑人要求有一个自由黑人州，并主张使用暴力达到这个目的。
    At the end of the 1960s, American radical blacks demanded a free black state and were for using violence to reach that end.
  • 新西兰出口的货品种类繁多，但其中最为重要的一环却永远也不会记录在贸易帐簿上，那当然是新西兰的国家榄球队"allblacks"。
    One of your greatest exports, though, will never show up on the trade books and that is, of course, the mighty All Blacks.
  • “我们很高兴看到这些突破，”他又说，“可是我们不要电视观众和社会一般人士认为，因为有几个黑人成功了就可以原谅对其余黑人所有的污辱、所有的伤害以及所有丧失的机会。”
    "We are glad to see the breakthroughs," he added, "but we don't want the television audience, society in general, to think that a few blacks making it can excuse all of the indignities, all the injuries, all of the lack of opportunities for all the rest of the blacks."
  • 部分原因是人们倾向于选择父母二人中一种/民族身份-通常选择具有少数种/民族身份的父亲或母亲，例如黑人或拉美裔人。
    That's partly because people tend to assume the racial or ethnic identity of one parent -- often the minority parent, in the case of blacks and Hispanics.
  • 最令人鼓舞的消息是：一般来说，[在80年代]黑人及西班牙裔在数学、科学以及阅读方面有了进步。可是自1988年以来，一般的阅读能力有了退步现象。
    The most encouraging news is that blacks and Hispanics generally improved in math, science and reading [in the 1980's]. But since 1988 they have generally lost ground in reading.
  • “那一时期,黑人创造了他们自己的音乐,迪克西兰爵士乐及拉格泰姆乐曲,或者随便你怎么称呼,黑人音乐最终成为流行的音乐。
    "It was a time when the blacks came up with their music, Dixieland and honky tonk, or whatever you want to call it, and it finally ended up into swing.
  • 种族歧视和贫穷加剧了种族暴力，尤其是在日常生活中年轻的黑人和警察的关系，或者以另外一种更极端的形式表现出来，即城市里的暴乱。
    Racial discrimination and poor living conditions have contributed to racial violence , especially in the day-to-day form of relations between young blacks and the police, or in the more extreme form of inner-city riots.
  • 　当人们可以说“黑人”和“白人”时，若有人建议说“红人”(指美洲印第安人--顺便说一句，他们被称为加拿大的“第一民族”)或者“黄人”(亚洲人)，可是个坏主意。
    And while one can speak of "black people" and "white people" or "blacks" and "whites", one would be ill advised to speak of "red people" (American Indians - the "First Nations" of Canada, by the way) or "yellow people" (Asians).
  • 美国尼格罗人（我使用此一名词，系因1969年《新闻周刊》民意调查显示它远较其他名词更被普遍接受）在十七、八世纪时，称自己为非洲人或自由非洲人，表示他们对故土的感情。十九世纪前半叶，情况改变，他们开始称呼自己有色美国人，小部分人自称尼格罗人和黑人。
    American Negroes (I shall use that term because a 1969 Newsweek poll showed it to be far and away the most popular) referred to themselves as Africans or Free Africans in the 17th and 18th centuries, indicating the attachment to the land they had so recently left. By the first half of the 19th century, a change took place, and they started calling themselves Colored Americans and, to a lesser extent, Negroes and Blacks.
  • 他年轻时，他父亲叫他去跟一个铁匠当徒弟。
    In his youth his father bound him out to a blacksmith.