容易误译的英语 | buy [sell] for a [an old] song
［例句］ He bought a used walkman for a song.
［误译］ 他为了一首歌买了一台旧随身听。
短篇小说 | Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet
Jeff Peters has been engaged in as many schemes for making money as there are recipes for cooking rice in Charleston, S.C.
容易误译的英语 | butter one up
［例句］ The cosmetician is always buttering his boss up.
［误译］ 化妆师总是给老板抹奶油。
短篇小说 | Innocents of Broadway
"I hope some day to retire from business," said Jeff Peters; "and when I do I don't want anybody to be able to say that I ever got a dollar of any man's money without giving him a quid pro rata for it.
容易误译的英语 | But me no but
［例句］ But me no buts.
［误译］ 但我家没有外屋厨房。
短篇小说 | Hygeia At The Solito
If you are knowing in the chronicles of the ring you will recall to mind an event in the early 'nineties when, for a minute and sundry odd seconds, a champion and a "would-be" faced each other on the alien side of an international river.
短篇小说 | The Unexpected
He was to return at the close of the month. Daily letters, impassioned and interminable, passed between them.
容易误译的英语 | but ③
［例句］ There is no man but hates her.
［误译］ 但没有一个人恨她。
短篇小说 | Hostages to Momus
I never got inside of the legitimate line of graft but once. But, one time, as I say, I reversed the decision of the revised statutes and undertook a thing that I'd have to apologize for even under the New Jersey trust laws.
短篇小说 | The Storm
Calixta, at home, felt no uneasiness for their safety. She sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine.
容易误译的英语 | but ②
［例句］ Bessie, Cissy and Daisy recently moved in next door to our manager but three.
［误译］ 贝西、锡西和黛西最近搬入到我们经理的隔壁住，但那房间只住三个人。
短篇小说 | X-ing a Paragrab
AS it is well known that the 'wise men' came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it -- Mr. B. was an editor.
