说中英慣用例句:
  • 這裏有一條交易法則：“欺騙他人，因為他們也欺騙你。”這是真正的經商之道。(英國小說 狄更斯 C)
    Here's the rule for bargains "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true precept. (Charles Dickens. British novelist)
  • 做生意嗎？ 那太簡單了——叫別人掏錢包。(法國小說 小仲馬 A)
    Business? That's very simple---- it's other people's money. (Alexandre Dumas, French novelist)
  • 儘管他沒說什麽，但我們能看得見她怒火中燒。
    She didn't say anything, but we could see that anger smouldered in her heart.
  • 洛杉磯不斷地推出電影和電視節目，紐約使股市和公司總部正常運轉，但雙方都可以指着對方自鳴得意地說:“看，我們不像東海岸那些人那樣纍得半死。”
    Los Angeles continues to produce films and television, and New York keeps the stock market and corporate headquarters going, but both have the smug satisfaction of pointing to the other and saying, "See?
  • 言辭具有不可思議的力量。他們能帶來最大的幸福，也能帶來最深的失望；能把知識從教師傳給學生；言辭能使演說者左右他的聽衆，，並強行代替他們作出决定。言辭能激起最大強烈的情感，促進人的一切行動。不要嘲笑言辭在心理治療當中的的用途。(德國精神分析學家 弗洛伊德 S)
    Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all man's actions. Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy. (Sigmund Freud, German Psychiatrist)
  • 一旦 熱愛藝術，什麽奉獻也不難。(美國小說 歐·享利)
    When one loves one's art no service seems too hard. (O.Henry, American novelist)
  • 文化的價值在於它對人類品性的影響。除非文化能使品性變為高尚、有力。文化的作用在於裨益人生，它的目標不是美，而是善。(英國小說傢和戲劇傢 毛姆 S)
    The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. (Somerset Maugham, British noverlist and dramatist)
  • 語言是心靈的鏡子；一個人衹要說話，他說的話就是他的心靈的鏡子。(美國作傢 塞拉斯 E)
    Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. (Ephraem Syrus, American writer)
  • 吃不到葡萄的人說葡萄酸。(古希臘寓言作傢 伊索)
    Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have. (Aesop, ancient Greek fable writer)
  • 有人說醫師公會是走私集團的掩護機關。
    Some claimed that the doctor's union fronted for the smuggling ring.
  • 官僚們自鳴得意地解釋說，他們自己的專傢所提供的事實表明沒有什麽好擔心的。
    the bureaucrats explained smugly that the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for concern.
  • 簡單地說，偉大的文學就是包涵極其豐富意義的語言。(美國詩人 龐德 E)
    Good painting is like good cooking; it ca n be tasted, but not explained. (Maurice de vlaminck, French painter)
  • 騰格拉爾一面說着一面寫了起來，他用左手寫下了幾行歪歪斜斜的根本看不出是他自己的筆跡的文字，然後他把那篇文字交給弗爾南多，弗爾南多低聲讀道:“檢察官先生臺鑒，敝人擁護王室及教會之人士，茲嚮您報告有愛德蒙·唐太斯其人，係法老號之大副，今晨自士麥拿經那不勒斯抵埠，中途曾停靠費拉約港。此人受繆拉之命送信與逆賊，並受逆賊命送信與巴黎拿破侖黨委員會。
    And Danglars, uniting practice with theory, wrote with his left hand, and in a writing reversed from his usual style, and totally unlike it, the following lines, which he handed to Fernand, and which Fernand read in an undertone:--"The honorable, the king's attorney, is informed by a friend of the throne and religion, that one Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon, arrived this morning from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been intrusted by Murat with a letter for the usurper, and by the usurper with a letter for the Bonapartist committee in Paris.
  • 一部小說猶如一面在大街上走的鏡子。(法國作傢 司湯達)
    A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. (Stendhcl,French writer)
  • 所有的人說 的謊——小謊、大謊、善意的謊——都是為確保社會安寧、心理舒適采取的必要手段。(美國作傢 梅爾， H.)
    We all tell lies——little lies, big lies, necessity lies in order to insure social and psychological peace and comfort. (Howard Mel, USA writer)
  • 士兵戴維說："白天的時候都是做些雜七雜八的瑣碎活，心情糟透了。衹有到了晚上，得知自己收到了郵件，臉上纔會呈現出燦爛的笑容。"他邊說邊打開自己的包裹，裏面裝着一堆零食和妻子女兒的一盤錄音磁帶。
    "You are down all during the day doing details, doing what you got to do and then at the end of the day when you get mail call you just get a big smile on your face," said David Vaugn as he unloaded a package filled with snacks and an audiotape from his wife and daughter.
  • 故事說的是：一天，有個年輕的女子，在下班開車回傢的路上不小心與另外一輛車發生了碰撞，結果，她的車擋泥板被撞壞了。
    A young woman was driving home from work when she snagged her fender on the bumper of another car.
  • 道德確實不是指導人們如何使自己幸福的教條，而是指導人們如何配享有幸福的學說。(德國哲學家 康德.I.)
    Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness. (Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher)
  • 說謊掩蓋了人死的必然性、缺陷、恐懼、焦慮和在熙熙攘攘的人群中所感到的孤獨。耳熟能詳的謊言會創造一個較易應付的現實。 人渴望從這些謊言中得到安慰。(美國作傢 梅爾.H.)
    Lying disguises our mortality, our inadequacies, our fears and anxieties, our loneliness in the midst of the crowd. We yearn for the comfort of familiar lies to create a more amenable reality. (Howards Mel, USAwriter)
  • 世界在發展，我們不在技術上前進，不要說超過，趕都趕不上去，那纔真正是爬行主義。
    The world is advancing.If we do not develop our technology, we cannot catch up with the developed countries, let alone surpass them, and we shall be trailing behind at a snail's pace.
  • 俗話說：“能登上金字塔的生物，衹有兩種------鷹和蝸牛。”
    There are only two creatures," says a proverb, "who can surmount the pyramids-the eagle and the snail."
  • 如果你的品行使你鬱鬱寡歡，那麽，這些品行無疑是錯誤的。(英國小說 斯蒂文森.R.L.)
    If your morals make you dreary. depend upon it, they are wrong. (Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist)
  • 要說服別人，先得說服自己。(英國政治傢 切斯特菲爾德.P.D.)
    If you would convince others ,you seem open to conviction yourself. (Philip Dormer Chesterfield, British statesman)
  • 我永遠無法說服自己去吃蝸牛。
    I can never bring myself to eat snails.
  • 動物保護者們說，由於牧民們沒有能力喂養它們，所以那些蛇往往在賣給耍蛇者之前不是被餓死就是患上嚴重的傷口感染。
    Since the nomads are unable to feed them, the snakes are starved and suffer from severe infections even before being sold to snake charmers, activists say.
  • 薩拉說："爸爸，我懂了。"說完從我腿上跳下去，拿着蛇皮跑了。
    "I see, Dad," said Sarah and jumped off my lap, grabbed the snakeskin, and ran off.
  • 我說了要把那書架弄走。來，趕快開始搬吧！
    I said I wanted the bookshelf moved. Now come on, snap into it!
  • 別管我，我狠狠地對她說。
    She never snapped at her children.
  • “住手！”那少年厲聲說。
    "Chuck it!" snapped the boy.
  • 使人高興的或者沮喪的，與其說是事實，還不如說是攀比。(美國發明傢 富勒 T)
    Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. (Thomas Fuller, American inventor)
  • 這位膚色曬得黝黑、因拉開17公斤重的弓而肌肉發達的奧林匹剋冠軍說道：“我大叫——媽呀!”
    Says the tanned Olympian, hard - muscled from using bows with a bone - snapping 17 kg of draw weight:"I cried out for my mom."
  • 他從來不心平氣和地說話總是高聲喊叫.
    He never speaks calmly just snaps all the time.