英语口语、习惯语、经典语录5000句(248)
2471) I’m afraid she’ll have a cow. 我担心她会克制不住的。Don’t have a cow. 不要生气呀。
2472) I made one last-ditch effort to get her to stay. 我作了最后的努力要留下她。It was a last-ditch effort. I didn’t expect it to work.这是孤注一掷了,我觉得不会有什么效果。
2473) back的几个用法:
a) I owe three months back rent. 我拖欠了三个月的房租没交。
b) 有人用a while back来替代a while ago,
c) Woods is five shots back. 伍兹落后五杆。
2474) Don’t be carried away. 不要太得意忘形了。He is carried away by his own joke. 他自己讲了个笑话,自己被陶醉了。
2475) lulu 头脑好使的人,很难确定,A real lulu told me how to solve this problem. 有个行家告诉了我如何解决这个问题。That story is a real lulu.这个故事有点悬。
2476) rubber necking, rubber neck, 好奇看车祸,伸出脖子看车祸。Crews pulled the wreckage off the highway, but drivers continued to rubberneck and cause delays. 消防人员已经把撞坏的车拖到了公路旁边,但是开车的人都还是争相观望,造成了塞车。
2477) lookie loo 1. 光看不买,Agents call lookie loos "time wasters."地产商称“光看不买的人”为时间浪费者。2. 司机开车时在公路上看车祸,Traffic on the beltway has come to a standstill because of the lookie loos. 因为司机的好奇观望使得环城公路上的交通瘫痪。
2478) My God, I pretend to nothing upon this earth, except to be so firmly united to you by prayer that to be separated from you may be impossible; let others desire riches and glory; for my part, I desire but one thing, and that is, to be inseparably united to you, and to place in you alone all my hopes of happiness and repose. (St. John Climacus) 我的神啊,对这世上的富贵我视而不见,只求透过祷告与你完全合一,不可能再离弃你;让他人去追求财富与光荣,而我只求一件事,那就是与你完美地合一,把我对幸福与安宁的所有盼望都寄托在你的身上。 pretend to nothing 对一切无所求。
2479) Live Free or Die Fighting!或为自由战死,或自由地活!
2480) Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her. 你们当受我的教训,不受白银。宁得知识,胜过黄金。因为智慧比珍珠(或作红宝石)更美。一切可喜爱的,都不足与比较。(箴8:10-11)
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