最典型的网络英文潮语(缩略)
omg(oh my god):我的天啊!有时为了表达更强烈的情感,有人会打:OMGGGGGGG! lol(laugh out loud):大声地笑。这个缩写已经快被用烂了。 Imao(laughing my arse/ass off):笑死我了。遇...
The famous Jumping Frog 大名鼎鼎的跳蛙
In Calaveras, California, there lived a man whose name was Jim Smiley. Jim enjoyed betting so much that he would bet on anything. If anyone said good morning to him, he would bet t...
Pecos Bill 佩克斯•比尔
Pecos Bill is a cowboy hero of the American Southwest. He was the legendary inventor of roping, branding, and other cowboy skills. He also invented the six-shooter and train robber...
THE LOVE 爱
The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much misc...
“鼓掌”、“热烈欢迎”的表达方式你知道几种?
来英国之前,李晨对于“鼓掌”一词的英译掌握仅限于和'applause'相关的一些表达法,不过前几日在观摩了美国的舞蹈真人秀'So You Think You Can Dance'之后,主持人 Cat Deeley 营造现场气氛、引...
Lady Godiva and "peeping Tom"戈黛娃夫人与偷窥者
Lady Godiva was an Anglo-Saxon woman who lived in England during the 11th century. She was the wife of Leofric, Lord of Coventry. According to legend, her husband forced his people...
Missed the blue flowers错过的蓝色小花
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught ...
A pie in the sky 什么意思
“A pie in the sky”源于一首歌,与创建于1905年的IWW(世界工业劳工组织)关系密切。当时,工人运动的领袖们为号召普通工人举行起义,常常自创歌曲以此鼓舞士气、扩大影响力。当然,歌词一般...
Tom Thumb 拇指汤姆
In the days of king Arthur there lived a ploughman and his wife. They had lived together happily for twenty years, but they had no child. The great magician Merlin had sympathy for...

