英译汉常见错误 | 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。
小词详解 | subjugate
她的宏伟抱负让位给了家庭的需要。
Her grandiose ambitions had been subjugated to the needs of her family.
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.
英译汉常见错误 | bull's eye
A: What's the answer to the riddle?
B: Potatoes?
A: Bull's eye!
英译汉常见错误 | 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。
英译汉常见错误 | buck
［例句］ She bought a dictionary for 10 bucks.
［误译］ 她花10只公羊的代价买了一本词典。
短篇小说 | Three Sundays in a Week
YOU hard-headed, dunder-headed, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty, fusty, old savage!" said I, in fancy, one afternoon, to my grand uncle Rumgudgeon -- shaking my fist at him in imagination.
短篇小说 | From the Cabby's Seat
The cabby has his point of view. It is more single-minded, perhaps, than that of a follower of any other calling.
短篇小说 | The Kiss
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
小词详解 | mediocre
能者上、优者奖、庸者下、劣者汰
the competent are elevated, the outstanding are rewarded, the mediocre are demoted, and the incompetent are dismissed
