每日一句

mirandawang

20101113

beat a dead horse

中文解释：白费口舌
英文解释：to waste time doing something that has already been attempted
eg：
Do you think it's worth sending my manuscript to other publishers or I am just beating a dead horse?

mirandawang

20101114

let the cat out of bag

中文解释：泄漏秘密
英文解释：to reveal a secret or a surprise by accident.
来源：早在超市（或杂货店）出现之前，人们通常在当地的市场买菜。农民和商人们在那里叫卖蔬菜水果、鸡蛋面包之类，此外还会出售肉类和家禽，通常都是些活的动物。在一些特殊的场合（如节日盛宴），乳猪是采购单上一样很抢手的食物。由于乳猪会乱动，当顾客挑选好并结账后，商人为了运送方便就把猪塞进一个帆布口袋（poke）里递给顾客。
然而，市场上的许多交易并不光明磊落，奸商有时会利用顾客一时走神，把一只流浪猫冒充乳猪放进袋子里。直到顾客回家，“把猫从袋子里拿出来”（let the cat out of the bag），才发现这个骗局。所以这个词组意味着是一个意外的，但通常令人讨厌的发现。据说这也是谚语“不要买装在袋子里的猪”（don't buy a pig in a poke）的由来，也就是“不要不看现货就买东西”的意思。
eg：We knew then that he was expecting someone to arrive. It's a secret. Try not to let the cat out of the bag.

mirandawang

20101115

You're going too far!

中文解释：你太过分了。
英文解释：to do more than is acceptable
eg：I didn't mind at first, but now you've gone too far. If you go too far, I'll slap you.

mirandawang

20101116

come in handy

中文解释：派上用场
英文解释：to be useful
eg：My son's wagon comes in handy when I have to move anything heavy.

mirandawang

20101117

once in a blue moon

中文解释：千载难逢地
英文解释：very seldom
来源：

Ask the man on the Clapham omnibus the question 'What is a blue moon exactly?' and you are likely to get one of three answers:

1. Duh.
2. It's the second full moon in a calendar month.
3. It's when the moon looks blue.

Let's start with 3. Very occasionally, the moon actually does appear to be blue. This sometimes occurs after a volcanic eruption, like that of Krakatao in 1883. Dust particles in the atmosphere are normally of a size to diffract blue light, making the moon appear reddish at sunset. Larger volcanic dust particles diffract red light, making the moon appear bluish.

Tempting as it is to suppose that something that happens very rarely, and which is mentioned by name in a phrase that means 'very rarely', is the source of the phrase, it probably isn't.

eg：Jill: Does your husband ever bring you flowers? Ellen: Once in a blue moon.

mirandawang

20101118

You've got me there.

中文解释：你考到我了
英文解释：something that you say when you do not know the answer to a question
eg：'How many miles is five kilometres?' 'You've got me there.'

mirandawang

放弃了一段时间，
现在继续；
改一下模式，
记录一些有意义的句子。

20101212

If a woman is not sexy, she needs emotion; if not emotional, she needs reason; if not reasonable, she has to know herself clearly. If not so, only she has is misfortune.
女人如果不性感，就要感性；如果没有感性，就要理性；如果没有理性，就要有自知之明；如果连这个都没有了，她只有不幸。

mirandawang

20101213

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept,things we don't want to know but have to learn,and people we can't live without but have to let go.
总有一些事,我们不愿它发生,却必须接受；总有些东西,我们不想知道, 却必须了解；总有些人, 我们不能没有, 却必须学着放手。

mirandawang

20101214
Love is not about running into each other in crowds, but an impossible meeting. For example, I am a bird flying in sky; you are a leopard in forest. We just fall in love accidentally.

缘分不是人海中两个人的擦身，缘分是不可能的相遇。比如我是空中的鸟，你是林中的豹，只是我们碰巧相爱

mirandawang

20101215

When some one abandons you, it is him that gets loss because he looses someone who truly loves him but you just lost one who doesn't love you.
当你认为被抛弃的时候，受损失的其实是对方：因为他失去了一个真正喜欢他的人，而你只不过少了一个不喜欢你的人罢了。


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