201 ~ 300
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The boy had a small branch of a tree in his hand.
这个男孩手上拿一条小树枝。 -
He comes from a branch of our family that settle in Korea.
他出身于我们这个家族移居韩国的一个分支。 -
He’s like a bull in a china shop, always knocking things over.
他笨手笨脚, 总是撞倒东西。 -
Yes, but who’ll tell him she’s no good—who’ll bell the cat?Some of us know he’s got a bunch of fives.
不错, 可是谁愿意告诉他, 说她不行呢?——谁愿意为大家去冒险呢?我们中间有些人知道他的拳头很厉害。 -
Tom was a bundle of nerves at the interview.
汤姆在面试时非常紧张。 -
Instead of working hard at her lessons, Mary spends her time building a castle in the air.
玛丽不用功读书, 却花时间去幻想。 -
Your scheme is merely a castle in the air.
你的计划只不过是空中楼阁。 -
There must be a catch in this plan.
这计划肯定有鬼。 -
There is a catch to that question.
那问题中有名堂。 -
You might get a seat on the train but it’s a chance in a million.
在火车上你也许能找到座位, 但是希望很小。 -
The new large print in the book is a change for the better.
这书的大字新版本较原本为好。 -
A black eye, a torn hand, blisters on your feet—my God, what a chapter of accidents!
你眼睛青了, 手破了, 脚也起泡了——哎呀, 真是多灾多难! -
I have had a clean sheet ever since I have been with my present firm.
自从我受雇在这家公司工作以来, 没有犯过一次错误。 -
The car almost ran me over.It was a close call.
那辆汽车差点把我碾死, 真是死里逃生。 -
The little girl will be a companion for my small daughter.
那小女孩将作我小女儿的同伴。 -
He’s not much of a companion for me.
他和我不大合得来。 -
She becomes a companion to a foreigner.
她成为一个外国人的同伴。 -
I worked as a companion to an old princess.
我当过一位老公爵夫人的陪伴人。 -
I used to have a companion to that ornament, but I broke it.
我原来还有一件装饰品和那一个配对, 可是我把它弄坏了。 -
That book forms a companion to the present volume.
那本书与现有的一册成为姊妹篇。 -
A company of travellers is expected to arrive soon.
一伙旅行者希望能很快到达。 -
He conducted a company of tourists.
他带领着一群旅行者。 -
Though the man I introduced to you last night looks somewhat boorish, he is a diamond in the rough.
我昨天晚上介绍给你认识的那个人虽然看上去有点没礼貌, 可他是个外粗内秀的人。 -
She’s not nervous about speaking to a lot of people, but speaking to a TV camera is a different kettle of fish.
她在许多人面前讲话都不紧张, 但在电视摄影机前面讲话就完全是两回事了。 -
Our firm has just struck a difficult patch.
我们的公司刚遭厄运。 -
If you buy a dozen these tins, we can take 5 percent off the price.
假如你买一打这种罐头, 我们可以减价5%。 -
If you buy a dozen of these tins, we can take 5 percent off the price.
假如你买一打这种罐头, 我们可以减价5%。 -
Men’s knickers went out of style and are now a drug on the market.
男式灯笼裤已不时兴了, 成了滞销货。 -
Death is a fact of life.
死是无可争辩的事实。 -
You are too trusting; it’s one of the hard facts of life that not everybody is as honest as you are.
你太相信别人了, 严酷的现实是并不是每个人都像你那样诚实。 -
She got a fair shake.
她得到了公正的待遇。 -
He’s a dealer who’ll give you a fair shake.
他是个买卖公平的商人。 -
He took a false step and fell down the river.
他踩空掉到河里去了。 -
He has made a false step.
他犯了一个错误。 -
A false step can cost us millions of dollars.
一步失策会使我们损失几百万美元。 -
A fat lot of good that did me.
对我一点帮助也没有。 -
Winning the gold medal was a feather in his cap.
夺得金牌是他值得自豪的成就。 -
There is still a fifty-fifty chance to win the game.
赢得这场比赛有一半的可能性。 -
All children need a firm hand.
孩子们都需要有严格的管教。 -
I’ll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.
如果他再来打扰的话, 我就要对他不客气了。 -
I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they discuss my future.
在他们讨论我的前途时, 我恨不得能偷偷旁观。 -
He is a fly on the wheel.
他是个狂妄自大的人。 -
Cynics believe that finding a good husband these days is a game of chance.
愤世嫉俗者认为, 现在要找到一个好丈夫是一件碰运气的事情。 -
Your match is only a game of chance.
你的比赛只是凭机会而不是凭本领的游戏。 -
A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.
遗传密码在上一代确实很少有人知道。 -
This happened a generation ago.
这件事发生在30年前。 -
He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.
他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。 -
Both students have made a good few experiments on electricity.
这两个学生都做了不少电学实验。 -
The little girl knows a good many folk songs by heart.
那个小姑娘记得好多民歌。 -
You mustn’t waste a grain of rice.
你不能浪费一粒米。 -
There is not a grain of common sense in what he has said.
他说的话中一点常识都没有。 -
A great many houses were knocked down by the earthquake.
许多房子在地震中塌了。 -
Miners wore a helmet as a guard against falling rocks.
矿工头戴钢盔, 防护落下的岩石。 -
We find a happy medium between working too hard and not working at all.
我们在劳累地工作和不工作之间找到一个折中办法。 -
It is a hard nut for him to crack.
这对他而言是一个难题。 -
He’s a hard nut to crack.
他是个很难说服的人。 -
The higher officials knew there was a hen on.
高级官员们知道这里面有阴谋。 -
The product’s name became a household word.
这个产品的名字已家喻户晓。 -
Our gardener is a jack of all trades; he can do carpentering, decorating, a bit of plumbing, and so on.
我们的园丁是一个多面手, 他会一点木工活、装潢、会修理水管, 还会干一些其他的工作。 -
The Government’s decision is a real kick in the teeth for the unions.
政府的决定是对工会的重大打击。 -
He had a kind of feeling that she would phone him.
他有一种预感, 她会打电话给他。 -
He felt a kind of compunction.
他感到几分内疚。 -
Her marriage to John was a leap in the dark.
她与约翰结婚是贸然行动。 -
Why waste valuable teaching time trying to knock in a list of facts, if the children aren’t interested?
既然孩子们对罗列的事实不感兴趣, 为什么要浪费宝贵的教学时间强行塞给他们呢? -
That book is a load of rubbish.
那本书尽是些污言秽语。 -
I can give you a ride if you don’t mind climbing on this load of boxes.
如果你不怕麻烦爬到这一大堆箱子的上面, 我可以让你搭车。 -
When I heard they’d arrived safely, it was a great load off my mind.
当我听到他们已安全到达时, 心里才如释重负 -
It’s been a long haul but at last this dictionary is published.
经过千辛万苦这部字典才终于得以问世。 -
I thanked him with a lump in my throat.
我哽咽着向他道谢。 -
I couldn’t account for the lump in my throat as I told him the news.
当我告诉他那个消息时, 不知为什么哽咽起来。 -
You can trust him; he is a man of his word.
你可以信任他, 他是个守信用的人。 -
The book sold for a matter of five dollars.
这本书售价过去是五美元左右。 -
This job will only take a matter of minutes.
这件事只要几分钟就会做好。 -
It is a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion.
这是一个事实问题, 而不是一个看法不同的问题。 -
They wouldn’t ask for help unless it were a matter of life and death.
除非是生死攸关的事情, 否则他们不会请求别人帮助。 -
He told the telephone operator that his call was a matter of life and death.
他告诉接线员, 说他的电话是生死攸关的重要事情。 -
Whether she’s clever or not is a matter of opinion.
对于她是否聪明大家看法不同。 -
Most of the sports critics predict that the West Indias will win the match, but that’s a matter of opinion and I still think England has a good chance.
大多数体育评论家预言, 西印度群岛将赢得这场比赛的胜利, 但各人有各人的看法, 我始终认为英格兰队会获胜。 -
It’s a matter of record that there were ten bankruptcies in the town last year.
去年这个城市有十家破产是事实。 -
He regarded his marriage merely as a means to an end.
他仅把结婚当作达到目的的手段。 -
The old man was a mine of information about the history of the village.
那位老人是村史资料的知识宝库。 -
It will take us a month of Sundays to finish the task.
完成这个任务花了我们很长时间。 -
It seemed to her that she had not heard from him for a month of Sundays.
她好像很长时间没有收到他的来信了。 -
They have to cope with a mountain of problems.
他们得应付成堆的问题。 -
A mountain of dirty clothes is to be washed.
有成堆的脏衣服要洗。 -
Trying to sell overcoats in midsummer is a real mug’s game.
大夏天推销大衣, 真是白费力气。 -
I missed the deadline again last week; I suppose that is another nail in my coffin.
上星期我又误了最后期限, 我想那是另一个促使我完蛋的错误。 -
Is war a necessary evil in this world?
战争是这个世界上人们不愿见其发生但又无法避免的灾祸吗? -
That long holiday has given me a new lease of life.
那个长假使我重新变得生气勃勃。 -
A nod’s as good as a wink, their political rights must be safeguarded.
不用多说, 他们的政治权益必须得到保证。 -
A nod’s as good as a wink, she was sacked for incompetence.
不用多说, 她因不称职而被解雇。 -
A number of new products have been successfully trial-produced.
许多新产品已试制成功。 -
A great number of problems have arisen.
出现了许多问题。 -
A large number of people were present.
很多人出席了。 -
The speaker is really telling a pack of lies to the audience.
讲话人简直在向听众撒谎。 -
As a friend he is not bad, but as an employer, he is a pain in the neck.
作为朋友他不坏, 但作为雇主, 他是个讨厌的人。 -
There is a pretty portable pair of steps in one corner of the room.
屋角放着一架小巧玲珑的折梯。 -
A part of the textbooks have arrived.
一小部分教科书已经运到了。 -
Lack of money was a large part of the problem.
资金不足是主要问题。 -
She deserves a pat on the back for all the hard work she’s done.
她辛勤努力值得赞扬。