22-02-14 Adornment的意思是装饰品。 Free Dictionary给出了两个解释embellishment, ornamentation，就是抽象意义上的门面或者脸面。 She had managed to instill in her household a European sense of children as graceful adornments to the parents, as opposed to our ugl...

22-02-09 1. Got it! 懂了！ 2. Well, I see. 噢，我知道了。 3. No wonder. 怪不得。 4. So that explains it. 倒是说的通（原来如此）。 这里的that指代某种说法，it指代你心中的疑惑。 5. Makes sense. 有道理。 全称为It/ That makes sense。你还可以加强语气，说成It makes...

21-10-21 似曾相识，汉语成语，意思是好像曾经见过。形容见过的事物再度出现。可以翻译为have a sense of dj vu，表示have a feeling that one has seen or heard something before。 例句： 一走进这个房间，我就有种似曾相识的感觉。 I entered the room and immediately felt...

21-10-02 以幽默为主题的节日并不少见。除了我们熟知的愚人节外，还有一个供大家热闹说笑的日子 每年7月1日的国际笑话日。你了解关于笑话的英语表达吗？幽默感用英语怎么说？脱口秀演员常讲的趣闻逸事叫什么？《英语小测验》为你带来与笑话有关的英语表达。 1. The person who i...

21-08-09 今日短语 非正式表达 youre toast 的意思是你完了，多用来表达警告之意。这个表达也可以用来表示某物被毁灭了 something is toast。 例句 If you make a mistake in your monthly report again, youre toast! You really have to be more careful. He crashed his car...

21-06-24 One night many years ago I was on the bridge of a ship that passed one of our large cities on a quiet night. I saw its lights reflected in the sky and heard the rumblings of the citys noises. 多年前的一个晚上，我在宁静的夜色中乘船经过某个大都市。站...

21-06-06 一窍不通，意思是指没有一窍是贯通的，比喻一点儿也不懂（be utterly ignorant of）。可以翻译为its all Greek to somebody，all Greek to me是英文惯用语，比喻something is not understandable。 例句： 你弄懂这些说明了吗？我根本一窍不通！ Can you make sense of...

21-05-10 Intelligent people are flexible and able to thrive in different settings. 聪明的人具有灵活性，能够适应不同的环境。 They understand how much they dont know. 他们知道自己所了解的还远远不够。 Intelligent people let themselves become fascinated by thing...

21-03-17 Mr. Frank Churchill did not come. When the time proposed drew near, Mrs. Westons fears were justified in the arrival of a letter of excuse. For the present, he could not be spared, to his very great mortification and regret; but still he looked forw...

21-02-24 During that brief lull Buck found time to wonder why no one had sense enough to use a gun to bring them down. But almost as swiftly the answer came to him; they dared not risk the sound of a shot bringing interference from without. He flashed a glan...