容易误译的英语 | busy-body
［例句］ Mrs. Byron is a busy-body.
［误译］ 拜伦夫人是个忙人。
短篇小说 | Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
It's on my visiting cards sure enough (and it's them that's all o' pink satin paper) that inny gintleman that plases may behould the intheristhin words, "Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, 39 Southampton Row, Russell Square, Parrish o' Bloomsbury."
短篇小说 | He Also Serves
If I could have a thousand years--just one little thousand years--more of life, I might, in that time, draw near enough to true Romance to touch the hem of her robe.
短篇小说 | The Locket
One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march.
容易误译的英语 | bury one's head in the sand
［例句］ Mr. Feng always buries his head in the sand.
［误译］ 冯先生总是埋头于沙堆里苦干。
短篇小说 | Von Kempelen and his Discovery
In Europe, as yet, the most noticeable results have been a rise of two hundred per cent. in the price of lead, and nearly twenty-five per cent. that of silver.
短篇小说 | Georgia's Ruling
If you should chance to visit the General Land Office, step into the draughtsmen's room and ask to be shown the map of Salado County.
短篇小说 | The Lilies
THAT little vagabond Mamouche amused himself one afternoon by letting down the fence rails that protected Mr. Billy's young crop of cotton and corn.
容易误译的英语 | bull's eye
A: What's the answer to the riddle?
B: Potatoes?
A: Bull's eye!
容易误译的英语 | bulldog edition
［例句］ I read an article about that in the bulldog edition.
［误译］ 我在报纸的《公牛与狗专版》上看到有关那件事的一篇文章。
经济学人常用术语 | Zero-sum game
Zero-sum game The view th [...]
经济学人常用术语 | Zero-hours contracts
Zero-hours contracts A fo [...]
