短篇小说 | Modern Rural Sports

2020年3月21日

Jeff Peters must be reminded. Whenever he is called upon, pointedly, for a story, he will maintain that his life has been as devoid of incident as the longest of Trollope's novels.

容易误译的英语 | bull session

2020年3月20日

[例句] Some students of the economics department had a bull session last Sunday.
[误译] 上星期天,经济系的一些学生参加了公牛交易会。

短篇小说 | Masters of Arts

2020年3月19日

A two-inch stub of a blue pencil was the wand with which Keogh performed the preliminary acts of his magic. So, with this he covered paper with diagrams and figures while he waited for the United States of America to send down to Coralio a successor to Atwood, resigned.

短篇小说 | Mammon and the Archer

2020年3月17日

Old Anthony Rockwall, retired manufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall's Eureka Soap, looked out the library window of his Fifth Avenue mansion and grinned.

容易误译的英语 | bug

2020年3月16日

[例句] Did you know the police had bugged John's room?
[误译] 你知道警方已在约翰的房间里捉过臭虫了吗?