《英语日常口语、习惯语1500句》
第37节作者:
信天优 946. We need to tell our people to actively resist cultural lies that limit our potential. 我们得告诉大家,要竭力抵制那些束缚我们发挥潜力的文化谎言。 Potential 可为名词,也可为形容词:a potential danger to safety 安全隐患。
947. Evolutionists often speak of missing links. The bridge between man and the apes is the “missing link”, the hypothetical ape-like ancestor of both. 进化论者常常谈到缺失链(又译为“迷失的环节”,或译“缺环”)。进化论假设猿与人享有共同祖先,所以人与猿之间的那座桥就是“缺失链”。
948. But the challenge is that missing links are everywhere all over the evolutionary tree. For instance, dogs and bears are thought to be evolutionary cousins, related to each other through a missing link. 但是难题是,在进化论的树枝上,缺失链是比比皆是。例如,狗与熊按进化论解释是属表兄妹,只是中间少了一个缺失链。
949. So far, there is no evidence of any fossil record for so-called missing link. 但到迄今为止,找不到一块化石证据来证明有缺失链这回事。So evolution is a theory of circular argument which is never proved. 所以进化论是一种靠循环论证建立起来的理论,得不到证实。
950. Real truth stands up to be tested and be debated. There are two theories you are not allowed to debate in our country: communism and evolution.真正的真理是经得起试验与辩论的。但是在我们国家,有两个理论是绝对不允许辩论的,即共产主义与进化论。
日期:2008-10-31 6:02:55
951.You are defined by what you do, not by what you say. 是你的行为而不是你的言语在揭示着你的为人。A company is defined by its product, not by its commercial. 一个公司是由其产品而不是由其广告所决定的。define 给什么下定义。
952. Violet is, by any standards, easy on the eyes. 紫罗,无论用什么样的标准来看,都是一个很养眼的漂亮女孩。She may be easy on the eyes but she is totally conceited.她或许很漂亮,但她却是个狂妄之徒。
953. Can you just translate his complicated comments into straight-shooting advice? 你能把他难以明白的言辞化为直截了当的主意吗?He is a straight shooting man caught up in the politics of a crooked little town. 他是一个直爽的人,却陷入了一个充满是非的小镇的官场政治之中。Branch is a straight shooter, a no-nonsense kind of guy who says what he means.布兰是个直来直去的人,不喜欢绕圈子,而是有一说一。
954. She loves gossip and tends to listen in on our private conversations. 她这个人喜欢饶舌,喜欢偷听我们的私人谈话。listen in on 等于是eardrop, 偷听。
955. Be nice on his wedding day. Don’t cause a scene. 在他的婚礼上要得体一点,不要添乱(引人注目)。cause a scene 引人注目。
956. That is a head-smacking solution. 这个解决问题的办法真是别开生面。He has got some ideas so head-smacking good that we shouldn’t miss them. 他有一些叫人顿开茅塞的主意,我们得听一听。head-smacking 顿开茅塞。
957. If he does that again, I have to bring it to a showdown with him. 如果他再这么做的话,我就得跟他摊牌了。Three Americans, three Jamaicans to show down in women’s 100m finals. 三个美国人,三个牙买加人将在女子100米决赛中决一胜负。
958. I don’t want to cause any hard feelings with his step-mother, but should I call her mother? 我不想叫他继母感到难堪,但我该称她为母亲吗?No hard feelings but I have to tell you that you are wrong. 我并不生气,但我得说,你错了。
959. She is so friendly and takes me home often, but she will not allow me to chip in on gas, she says she is making the trip anyway. 她很友善,常常给我搭顺风车,但是她不接受我想给她点汽油钱,因为她说她反正要走这条路。chip in on 大家凑钱 If we all chip in we’ll have enough to buy a suitable gift for our teacher. 如果大家都凑点钱,我们就可以买个象样的礼物给老师了。
960. How do I hold my interest in English for the long haul? 我怎样能长期保持学英语的兴趣呢?I am in it for the long haul. 我会长期投入的。
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961.If you want to keep open your opportunities of moving up the company, then you should not complain too much. 如果你想要在公司有晋升的机会,就不要老抱怨。
962. Chinese medicine holds that there are hundreds of points on the body that link to invisible pathways for the body’s vital energy, or qi. 中医认为,人身体上有数百个穴位,透过经脉与气相通。
963.A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.银行这种机构就是晴天给你送雨伞,雨天却要收回。
964.A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. 骨伤可以疗,言语造成的伤害却难疗。
965.A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.能够记住女人的生日而又记不住她年龄的人就可以当外交家了。
966.A free society is a place where it’s safe to be unpopular.能为少数派提供安全场所的社会就是自由社会。
967.A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.不知道历史的一代既没有过去也没有未来。(这句话对当代的愤青真是当头棒喝。当代愤青对过去60年的历史一无所知。)
968.A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.千里之行始于足下。
969.A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.当一个人跪下帮助一个小孩时就会顿时高大起来。
970.A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.(孔子)
日期:2008-11-5 4:41:37
几句无伤大雅的迷信话
981. "See a penny, pick it up." 捡起一分钱,好运连连。现在地上有一分钱,可能不屑一顾的人居多。但美国人觉得捡起这分钱会带来好运,所以一边捡一边说:See a penny, pick it up and all day long you’ll have good luck.还有人接着说:"see a penny, let it lay and have bad luck all day. "
982. 英语里还有些无伤大雅的迷信:"Break a mirror, face seven years of bad luck." 中国人也相信不要打破镜子,因为A broken mirror creates a broken soul.
983. Friday the 13th is associated with a great deal of superstition in many cultures, and some people think that it is an unlucky or inauspicious day.
984."Step on a crack, break your mother’s back." 人行道上铺有砖块,你应该走在砖面上,而不是踩在砖缝,如果踩到了,结果可能就是:“踩在了砖缝,让你妈背痛。”don’t step on the cracks in the pavement。
985. Don’t walk under a ladder. 不要从梯子下走过。(这会带来坏运。)
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