容易误译的英语 | doctor
［例句］ He's a car doctor.
［误译］ 他是汽车专业的博士。
短篇小说 | The Reformation Of Calliope
Calliope Catesby was in his humours again. Ennui was upon him. This goodly promontory, the earth--particularly that portion of it known as Quicksand--was to him no more than a pestilent congregation of vapours.
容易误译的英语 | do up browm
［例句］ Your steak was done up brown.
［误译］ 你的牛排煎成褐色。
短篇小说 | The Red Roses Of Tonia
A trestle burned down on the International Railroad. The south- bound from San Antonio was cut off for the next forty-eight hours. On that train was Tonia Weaver's Easter hat.
容易误译的英语 | do in
［例句］ Hal did in George.
［误译］ 哈尔曾在乔治家里干活。
短篇小说 | The Rathskeller and the Rose
Miss Posie Carrington had earned her success. She began life handicapped by the family name of "Boggs," in the small town known as Cranberry Corners.
容易误译的英语 | do
［例句］ If the horizontal line does intersect this curve, draw a vertical line from the intersection to the abscissa.
［误译］ 若水平线与此曲线作相交，就从此交点向横坐标画一条垂直线。
短篇小说 | The Ransom Of Mack
Me and old Mack Lonsbury, we got out of that Little Hide-and-Seek gold mine affair with about $40,000 apiece. I say "old" Mack; but he wasn't old. Forty-one, I should say; but he always seemed old.
容易误译的英语 | do brown
［例句］ Hank was done brown by a witch doctor.
［误译］ 汉克被巫医弄得皮肤呈棕色。
短篇小说 | The Purple Dress
We are to consider the shade known as purple. It is a color justly in repute among the sons and daughters of man. Emperors claim it for their especial dye.
容易误译的英语 | dislike
［例句］ I dislike my sister.
［误译］ 我（长得）不像我妹妹。
短篇小说 | The Proem
For a ~real~, a boy will show you his grave. It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove swamp. A plain slab of wood stands at its head. Some one has burned upon the headstone with a hot iron this inscription:
