容易误译的英语 | birthday suit [clothes]
［例句］ The child was in his birthday suit and ran about the yard.
［误译］ 那个孩子穿着生日服装在院子里到处跑。
短篇小说 | King Pest
The gods do bear and will allow in kings The things which they abhor in rascal routes.
短篇小说 | A Fog in Santone
The drug clerk looks sharply at the white face half concealed by the high-turned overcoat collar.
短篇小说 | A Mental Suggestion
Graham looked up at the little winking stars and they looked down at him. He bowed in acknowledgement to the supremacy of the moving power which is love; which is life.
容易误译的英语 | Bikini
［例句］ Miss Mill is in Bikini now.
［误译］ 米尔小姐现在穿着三点式泳装。
短篇小说 | How to Write a Blackwood Article
I PRESUME everybody has heard of me. My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia. This I know to be a fact.
短篇小说 | A Double-Dyed Deceiver
The trouble began in Laredo. It was the Llano Kid's fault, for he should have confined his habit of manslaughter to Mexicans.
短篇小说 | A Matter of Prejudice
MADAME Carambeau wanted it strictly understood that she was not to be disturbed by Gustave's birthday party.
容易误译的英语 | bigwig
［例句］ He's a bigwig.
［误译］ 他戴着一顶大假发。
短篇小说 | Hop-Frog
I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor.
短篇小说 | A Dinner at--------*
Once or twice we had had sharp, brief contentions over certain points of behavior; but, prevailingly, give and take had been our rule.
短篇小说 | A Little Free-Mulatto
Well, there is no question about it. The happiest little Free-Mulatto in all Louisiana is Aurélia, since her father has moved to “L’Isle des Mulâtres.”
