英语语法大全 | 定冠词的用法

2020年2月21日

定冠词the与指示代词this,that同源,有"那(这)个"的意思,但较弱,可以和一个名词连用,来表示某个或某些特定的人或东西。

短篇小说 | The Premature Burial

2020年2月21日

THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

短篇小说 | Cupid's Exile Number Two

2020年2月21日

The United States of America, after looking over its stock of consular timber, selected Mr. John De Graffenreid Atwood, of Dalesburg, Alabama, for a successor to Willard Geddie, resigned.

短篇小说 | Cupid A La Carte

2020年2月20日

"The dispositions of woman," said Jeff Peters, after various opinions on the subject had been advanced, "run, regular, to diversions.

短篇小说 | Nég Créol

2020年2月20日

AT the remote period of his birth he had been named César François Xavier, but no one ever thought of calling him anything but Chicot, or Nég, or Maringouin.

容易误译的英语 | bring...home (to one)

2020年2月20日

[例句] You should bring the harmfulness of mad dogs home to your naughty child.
[误译] 你应该把那些有危害性的疯狗带回家吓一吓你那个调皮的孩子。

短篇小说 | The Oval Portrait

2020年2月19日

The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe.