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She often heard of people cutting off their noses to spite their faces. 她常听说人们去吞毒药去毒老虎的话。 I wouldn't work for that. It is chicken feed. Your crocodile tears fool nobody. Just when his rivals started to rub their hands with glee, he played his trump card.
---how far is it from here to Nottingham? ---Twenty miles as the crow flies. We are convinced that our cause is a just one, and we should never haul down our flag, no matter how great the opposition is to us. ----She said she used to have a good post, but had to give up through illness. ----That must be hanged for a tale; she was discharged for incompetence.
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. He was the first European head of state to visit their country, and they rolled out the red carpet for him. I look down upon him, for he is such a soft-soaper. “You look darker after the holidays.” He was given a few headline-grabbing assignments.
John killed himself yesterday when he received a Dear John and a pink slip. She played the role of Mercury between the two lovers. The negotiation are key to the undertaking; we had better ask Mumford to carry the ball. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
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The family had to move from city to city, leading a gypsy life. “ I heard you married him(Theo).” I said, “I hope you have been very happy.” “Oh, very. Theo is a perfect duck.” ---how do you spend your evening? --- I am a couch potato.
Listening to classical music is my cup of tea. At first I was poor, then I became needy, later I was under-privileged, now I am disadvantaged. I still don’t have a cent to my name, but I sure have a great vocabulary. 起初我贫穷，后来我拮据，再后来我受到不公 正待遇，现在我机遇不佳，我虽然仍不名一 文，但词汇却学了一大堆。
He didn’t throw the towel. It brings to the 64,000-dollar question: how and by what standards are films selected these days? If you try to cover up your misdeed with a fig leaf, you will only make it more conspicuous. Everyone thought that he was down and out this time.
意译法 Clyde kept the ball rolling at the party by dancing with a lamp shade on his head.
Hale Waihona Puke Baidu
直译加意译 The story of how oil transforms Kuwait is like a modern version of Aladdin and his magic lamp. Oil is the “lamp” that enriches Kuwait. 石油如何改变科威特的故事简直是《天方夜谭》 中阿拉丁神灯故事的现代版本。石油就是使 科威特富起来的“如意神灯”。
Off for a month’s vacation from the attention of Rome’s paparazzi went Sophia Loren, with her husband, Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, and their 18-month son Cheepy. 为了摆脱那些追逐名人的记者的纠缠，影星索 菲亚.罗兰偕丈夫意大利制片商卡洛.庞帝带着 他们18个月的儿子离开罗马赴外地度一个月 的假。
Why（原来）, she is no more than a bluestocking and everyone knows what men think of bluestocking. Truth lies at the bottom of the decanter. Why should I quarrel with my bread and butter? ? He is the blacksheep of a lovely family---oh, how would any of the Butlers ever turn out anything like him.
“ I suppose it was a sudden impulse.” “yes, but how do you account for her having such an impulse? I had done her no harm.”Birkin shook his head “The Amazon suddenly came up in her, I suppose,” he said. “well," replied Gerald, “I would rather it had been the Orinoco.” They both laughed at the poor joke.
直译法 General Motors and Chrysler were working feverishly to bring out their subcompacts （超小型汽车）. But the head of the Ford Motor Company had suck his head in the sand.
According to the philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. 这种哲学认为人类为生存而依靠的基本原则就 是弱肉强食，文明只是一种虚饰的外表。