译海纵横 | 爸,我妈呢?

与测量相关的英语习语

2022年1月31日

A Hundred and Ten Percent
More than what seems to be the maximum
努力做超过自己能力的事,即超过自己能力的100%,常在体育运动中用作鼓劲

短篇小说 | The Pelican

2022年1月30日

She was very pretty when I first knew her, with the sweet straight nose and short upper lip of the cameo-brooch divinity, humanized by a dimple that flowered in her cheek whenever anything was said possessing the outward attributes of humor without its intrinsic quality.

女生叫 Helen 是什么意思?

2022年1月30日

Helen 这个英文名的寓意是“光明”,源自希腊神话中的人物海伦。在希腊神话中,海伦是一位美丽的女子,她的美貌引发了一场特洛伊战争。

英语词源(etymology)

词源趣谈 | the Ashes “灰烬杯”

2022年1月30日

如今,英格兰和澳大利亚之间的板球系列对抗赛被称作“灰烬杯”(The Ashes)。即便澳大利亚赢得了系列对抗赛,“灰烬杯”也仍然留在英格兰。

短篇小说 | The Muse's Tragedy

2022年1月28日

He was almost certain, at all events, that he had been thinking of Mrs. Anerton as he sat over his breakfast in the empty hotel restaurant, and that, looking up on the approach of the lady who seated herself at the table near the window, he had said to himself, "_That might be she_."