英语口语、习惯语、经典语录5000句(230)
2291)clunker, 旧车Cash for clunkers. 旧车换新车。破旧车也叫a rattletrap car;junk car 指基本上报废了的车;vintage cars, 古董车 (上个世纪20年代30年代的车。)He gave her a ride in his beat-up Honda.
2292)The brakes are squishy. 刹车有点不灵了。My car drives shaky. 我的车开起来有点晃动。美国人,不管是民主党人还是共和党人,至今对Ronald Reagan依然敬佩,所以你如果能背几句里根的语录,你会立即赢得美国人的友谊。今天的句子都是出自这位已故总统的口。
2293)Government is not the answer to our problems, government is the problem. 政府不是问题的答案,政府本身就是问题。类似的里根句子有:The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. 问题不是公民纳税太少,而是政府花费太多。
2294)All great change in America begins at the dinner table. 美国所有伟大的改变都开始与餐桌。这句话的意思是,大的改变都是始于老百姓。
2295)How do you tell a c...? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-C...t? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. 你如何判断一个人是不是GC主义者?答案是他是一个读马列书的人。你如何判断一个人是不是反G人士?答案是他是一个懂马列的人。
2296)Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.人们普遍相信,政治是第二个最为古老的职业,我发现,政治与第一个最古老的职业非常相似。第一个最古老的职业是妓女。政治与妓女这一行当相似,因为都要出卖自己,一个出卖自己的肉体,一个出卖自己的灵魂。
2297)The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. 政府对经济的策略可以用简单的几句话来概括:如果它动,就让它纳税;如果它动不停,就立法限制它,如果它不动了,就给它补贴。it指企业。
2298)The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.英语里九个令人生畏的词是:我是官员,让我来帮你。这句话的意思是,如果让政府部门来干预私人生活领域,情况只会越来越糟。
2299)If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party. 如果苏联允许第二个政党成立的话,苏联仍旧是一个一党制的国家,因为人们都去跑去加入第二个党了。这话是讽刺第一个党的腐败无能。
2230)He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished戏笑穷人的,是辱没造他的主。幸灾乐祸的,必不免受罚。(箴17:5)

