《经济学人》小词详解

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
带我去你那里，将我囚入禁地，我永无自由，除非你将我奴役，我无以圣洁，除非你令我神迷。

Burnish vs Burn

她的情夫是个积习难改的调情老手。他们私通纯粹是受淫欲的驱使。
Her lover is an incorrigible flirt. Their affair was driven by pure lust.

The father was saying to his son: "The sage lives content with little.
父亲对儿子说：“贤者活着满足于无所求。

Chasm vs Chase vs Charm

与他分居的妻子闻到了另一个女人身上散发出的浓烈的香水味。
His estranged wife caught the heady waft of the other woman's perfume.

Restive vs Restless

She does whack it, by George. The way her crooked skirt swings at each whack.
哎呀，她拍得可真猛。随着拍打，她那歪歪拧拧的裙子就摇来摆去。

Trough vs Through

There are shadows enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre or a frog.
这里已暗如地狱，污泥成塘，垂死者不知他将变成鬼还是变成癞蛤蟆。