词源趣谈 | one's pound of flesh 合法不合情的要求
to demand one’s pound of flesh 指某人坚持讨回其合法权益,尽管这种要求不甚合理,也可能给对方带来痛苦。
to demand one’s pound of flesh 指某人坚持讨回其合法权益,尽管这种要求不甚合理,也可能给对方带来痛苦。
A laugh is a revealing thing, he thought as he fell asleep to dream of a lob-sided olive rolling consciously towards him, and of a girl's eyes that watched its awkward movements, then looked up into his own and laughed.
联合国世界数据论坛
United Nations World Data Forum
Persephone 是希腊神话中的一个人物,她是宙斯和谷物女神得墨忒耳的女儿,也是冥界的王后。这个名字的寓意有多种解释。
原文:I bought a new down jacket for the trip.
错译:我为这次旅行买了一件新的低领夹克。
detective [di'tektiv ]n. 侦探,密探
potato 指土豆。它出自泰诺人的阿拉瓦克族语batata,该语言现已绝迹
Peregrine 这个英文名字源于拉丁语,它的寓意是“旅行者”或者“游历者”。
It was getting on toward six o'clock so I thought I'd buy myself a beer and go out and sit in a deck chair by the swimming pool and have a little evening sun.
《儒藏》工程
Confucian Canon Project
educative ['edjukətiv ]adj. 有教育作用的
原文:What the reporters got from him was just political doublespeak.
错译:记者从他那里所得到的,都是些政治双人对话。
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