英语词源(etymology)

词源趣谈 | assassin 行刺者

2022年2月1日

assassin 指刺客,尤指出于政治目的而刺杀名人的刺客。它曾指 11、12世纪在波斯和叙利亚出没的一个秘密而狂热的宗教团体的成员。

短篇小说 | The Portrait

2022年1月31日

It was at Mrs. Mellish's, one Sunday afternoon last spring. We were talking over George Lillo's portraits--a collection of them was being shown at Durand-Ruel's--and a pretty woman had emphatically declared:--

英语词源(etymology)

词源趣谈 | asparagus 芦笋

2022年1月31日

管该词源自希腊语asparagos,但它后来衍变出了方言形式 sparrow-grass,就好像麻雀爱吃这种植物似的。

译海纵横 | 爸,我妈呢?

与测量相关的英语习语

2022年1月31日

A Hundred and Ten Percent
More than what seems to be the maximum
努力做超过自己能力的事,即超过自己能力的100%,常在体育运动中用作鼓劲

短篇小说 | The Pelican

2022年1月30日

She was very pretty when I first knew her, with the sweet straight nose and short upper lip of the cameo-brooch divinity, humanized by a dimple that flowered in her cheek whenever anything was said possessing the outward attributes of humor without its intrinsic quality.