剑桥双解词典的100个经典例句.doc

2009-08-17 21:44:55 来自: 爱我(象腿龙涎盖饭两份，木该 ) 1、 abandon obj/“Abandon hope all ye who enter here” (Originally All hope abandon .) (from Dantes Inferno .4, 1265-1321) “走进这里的人，放弃一切希望。”(但丁地狱篇) 2、 above/“This above all: to thine own self be true” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.3) “最重要的是：做一个真实的自我。”(莎士比亚哈姆雷特) 3、 absoluteVERY GREAT/“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (from a letter written by Lord Acton, 1887) “权力导致腐败，绝对的权力导致绝对的腐败。”(摘自阿克顿勋爵的一封信) 4、 ado/“Much Ado About Nothing” (title of a play by Shakespeare) 无事生非(莎士比亚戏剧名) 5、 adversary/“The Adversary of God and Man, Satan” (Milton in Paradise Lost, 1667) “上帝与人类的敌人，撒旦” (选自弥尔顿的失乐园) 6、 ageTIME SPENT ALIVE/“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety” (Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra 2.2) “年龄无法使她枯萎，习俗也不能减损 / 她的千姿百态”(选自莎士比亚的安东尼与克利欧佩特拉) 7、 annoyance/“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example” (Mark Twain Puddnhead Wilson, 1894) “很少有什么事比一个好榜样的麻烦事更叫人不堪忍受”(马克吐温傻瓜威尔逊) 8、 answerREACTION/“The Answer to the Great Question of . Life, the Universe and Everything . Is . Forty-two” (Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, 1979) “对于有关生命、宇宙和一切事物的深奥问题的答案是42。”(道格拉斯亚当斯所著希区海克尔的银河系指南) 9、 antennaORGAN/“Artists are the antennae of the race” (Ezra Pound in Literary Essays Henry James, 1954) “艺术家是人类的触角”(埃兹拉庞德文学随笔集“亨利詹姆斯”) 10、 arms/“To take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 3. 2) “拿起武器来面对无穷的困扰，/以无畏的反抗将之消灭。”(莎士比亚哈姆莱特) 11、 aspiration/“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.” (Saki in Reginald, 1904) “年轻人拥有难以实现的热望，老年人怀有虚无缥缈的回忆。”(萨基雷金纳德) 12、 avarice/“I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice” (Edward Moore in the play The Gamester, 1753) “我无比富有，贪婪的梦想都望尘莫及。” (选自爱德华摩尔的剧本赌徒) 13、 beEXIST/“Whatever is, is right” (Alexander Pope in the poem Essay on Man, 1733) “凡存在的，都合理.”（选自亚里山大蒲伯的诗人论，） 14、 beauteous/“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people int” (Shakespeare, Tempest 5.1) “人类是多么美啊！勇敢地面对生活着这样的人民的新世界”（选自莎士比亚的暴风雨） 15、 become objSUIT/“Nothing in his life/ Became him like the leaving it” (Shakespeare, Macbeth 1.4) “他的一生行事/从来不曾像他临终的时候那样得体”（选自莎士比亚的麦克白） 16、 bell/“. never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee” (Meditation XVII by John Donne, 1624) “别问丧钟为谁而鸣;它为你而鸣”（选自约翰多恩的沉思录） 17、 betray objNOT LOYAL/“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country” (from E.M.Forsters Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951) “如果要我在背叛祖国和背叛朋友之间选择，我希望有勇气背叛祖国”（选自E.M.福斯特的为民主欢呼两声） 18、 bigLARGE/“Oh Grandmama! What big eyes youve got.”“All the better to see you with.”“Oh Grandmama! What big teeth youve got.”“All the better to eat you with.” (from the fairy story Little Red Riding Hood) “啊 姥姥！你的眼睛好大！”“眼大好看你，亲爱的。”“啊 姥姥！你的牙好大！”“牙大好吃你。” （选自童话故事小红帽） 19、 bloody/“My head is bloody, but unbowed” (from the poem Invictus by W.E.Henley, 1888) “我的头流着血，但没有低下”（选自诗歌不败者，作者WE亨雷） 20、 blow (obj)SEND OUT AIR/“Blow, blow thou winter wind, / Thou art not so unkind / As mans ingratitude” (Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7) “吹吧，冬天的风，您并不那么冷酷，比人的忘恩负义要好。”（莎士比亚如愿以偿） 21、 blush/“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” (Mark Twain in the book Following the Equator , 1897) “人类是唯一会脸红的动物，或需要脸红的动物。”（摘自循赤道之行，马克吐温） 22、 boldly/“To boldly go where no man has gone before” (introduction to the television series Star Trek , 1966-) “勇敢地走向人类以前未涉足的地方”（电视连续剧星际旅行的序言） 23、 bombWEAPON/“Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! / It isnt fit for humans now” (John Betjeman in the poem Slough, 1937) “来,亲爱的炸弹,落在泥沼里吧!/ 你现在不适合于人类”（摘自诗歌泥沼，作者约翰贝杰曼） 24、 borrower/“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”(Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.3) “不要向人告贷也不要借钱给人”（莎士比亚，哈姆雷特） 25、 bowWEAPON/“Bring me my bow of burning gold” (William Blake in the hymn Jerusalem, 1804-10) “将燃烧的黄金制成的弓给我拿来”（摘自赞美诗耶路撒冷，作者威廉布莱克） 26、 braveFEARLESS/“None but the brave deserve the fair” (John Dryden in the poem Alexanders Feast, 1697) “只有英雄才配得上美人”（摘自诗歌亚利山大的盛筵，作者约翰德莱顿） 27、 bread/“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Bible, Matthew 4.4) “人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠神口里所说出的每一句话”（圣经马太福音） 28、 brightLIGHT/“All things bright and beautiful / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful - / The Lord God made them all” (From the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful by Mrs C.F. Alexander, 1848) 所有光明且美丽的事物 / 所有伟大或渺小的生物 / 所有智慧且奇妙的事物 / 上帝创造了他们一切（选自赞美诗所有光明且美丽的事物，作者:CF亚历山大夫人） 29、 burn (obj)BE ON FIRE/“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life” (Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance, 1893) “随着坚定的、宝石般的火焰燃烧，让这狂喜持续，对于生命来说，这便是成功。”（沃尔特帕特，文艺复兴历史的研究） 30、 bury obj/“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 3.2) “我是来埋葬凯撒，不是来赞美他。” （莎士比亚裘里乌斯凯撒） 31、 businessTHINGS YOU DO/“It is the business of the wealthy man / To give employment to the artisan” (from the poem Lord Finchley in Hilaire Bellocs More Peers, 1911) “给工匠们活儿干 / 这是富人们的事”（希莱尔贝洛克，更多的贵族中的诗芬奇里老爷） 32、 cakeFOOD/“Dost thou (=do you) think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night 2.3) “你以为你自己道德高尚，人家便不能喝酒取乐了吗?”（莎士比亚，第十二夜） 33、 camelANIMAL/“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Bible, Matthew 19.24) “骆驼穿过针的眼比财主进神的国还容易”（圣经马太福音 ） 34、 chainRINGS/“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract, 1762) “人是生而自由的，可是处处受到束缚。”（让雅克卢梭，社会契约论） 35、 charity/“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (Bible, 1 Corinthians 13.13) “现在常存的有信，有望，有爱，这三样;其中最大的是爱。”（圣经哥林多前书） 36、 citizen/“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world” (Francis Bacon Essays, 1625) “如果一个人对外邦人也能温和有礼，那么他就可以被称作一个世界的公民。”（弗兰西斯培根散文集） 37、 classECONOMIC GROUP/“Like many of the Upper Class / He liked the Sound of Broken Glass” (from the poem About John in New Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc, 1930) “像许多上层阶级的人一样/他喜欢听玻璃杯碎裂的声音”（选自希莱尔贝洛克新警诫故事中的“关于约翰”一诗） 38、 cloud/“I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high oer vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host of golden daffodils” (William Wordsworth in the poem Daffodils, 1807) “我像云霞般只身漫游/高高地飘浮过溪流与山丘/眼底忽见一片繁花连绵/金盏银台的是吐英的水仙”（选自威廉华兹华斯的诗歌水仙花） 39、 coldUNFRIENDLY/“Cast a cold eye / On life, on death. / Horseman, pass by!” (words on W.B.Yeats grave, from his poem Under Ben Bulben, 1939) 对生命，对死亡/投以冷眼/骑士，别驻足！（W.B.叶芝的墓碑铭文，选自他的诗歌在本布尔本山下） 40、 comet/“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes” (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 2.2) “乞丐死了的时候，天上不会有彗星出现;/君主们的凋殒才会上感天象”（莎士比亚裘力斯凯撒） 41、 comment/“Comment is free but facts are sacred” (C.P. Scott writing in The Manchester Guardian, 1926) “言论是自由的，而事实是不可侵犯的”（选自C.P.斯科特在曼彻斯特卫报上的文章） 42、 conscience/“Conscience doth (=does) make cowards of us all” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 3.1) “良心使所有人成为懦夫”(莎士比亚哈姆雷特) 43、 continentEUROPE/“On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners” (George Mikes in the book How to be an Alien, 1946) “欧洲大陆有好食物;英国有好吃相”(乔治迈克斯如何做一个外国人) 44、 countryPOLITICAL UNIT/“The undiscovered country from whose bourn (=boundry)/ No traveller returns” (Shakespeare writing about death, Hamlet 3. 1) “那从来不曾有一个旅人回来过的神秘之国”（指死亡）（莎士比亚哈姆雷特） 45、 courage/“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And well not fail” (Shakespeare, Macbeth 1. 7) “鼓足你浑身的勇气，/我们决不失败”（莎士比亚麦克佩斯） 46、 coward/“Cowards die many times before their deaths: /The valiant never taste of death but once.”(Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 2. 2) “懦夫一生要死很多次：/而勇者只会死一次。”（莎士比亚裘力斯凯撒） 47、 cruel/“I must be cruel only to be kind” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 34) “为了顾全母子的恩慈，我不得不忍情暴戾”（莎士比亚，哈姆雷特） 48、 cynic/“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” (from the play Lady Windermeres Fan by Oscar Wilde, 1892) “什么样的人是愤世嫉俗者呢? 是一个知道一切东西的价格而不知道任何一件东西的价值的人。”（王尔德温德米尔夫人的扇子） 49、 damn/“Life is just one damned thing after another.” (Elbert Hubbard in Philistine, 1909) “生活就是一件又一件烦人的事组成的。”(选自庸人，艾伯特哈伯德作) 50、 die (obj)STOP LIVING/“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love” (Shakespeare, As You Like It 4.1) “人类死过一次又一次，虫子将他们啃吃，却不是为爱。”(莎士比亚皆大欢喜) 51、 distance/“Distance lends enchantment to the view.” (Thomas Campbell in the poem Pleasures of Hopes, 1799) “距离给景色增添魅力/距离产生美”（托马斯坎贝尔的诗希望的乐趣） 52、 do objPERFORM/“If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done quickly.” (Shakespeare, Macbeth 1.7) 要是干了以后就完了,那么还是快一点干。 （莎士比亚麦克佩斯1.7） 53、 doACT/“Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” (George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists, 1907) 己所不欲未必不施于人，每个人的品味不尽相同。（选自萧伯纳革命者格言） 54、 dwarf/“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (title of a childrens story) 白雪公主和七个小矮人（儿童故事名） 55、 education/“Education is what survives when what had been learnt has been forgotten.” (B.F.Skinner in New Scientist, 1964) “学过的东西可以忘记，教育则是长存的。”(BF斯金纳，新科学家) 56、 entertain (obj)INVITE/“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (usually found in the expression_r_r to entertain an angel unawares) (Bible, Hebrews 13.2) “不可忘记用爱心接待客旅，因为曾有接待客旅的，不知不觉就接待了天使。” (圣经希伯来书) 57、 experience/“A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.” (Samuel Johnson in the book Boswells Life of Johnson, 1770) “一位婚姻生活很不愉快的男士在他的妻子死后又立即结婚了，这是希望战胜了经验。”(塞缪尔约翰逊鲍斯韦尔的“约翰逊传”) “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” (From Lady Windermeres Fan by Oscar Wilde, 1892) 人们把他们的错误起个名字叫做经验。(奥斯卡王尔德，少奶奶的扇子) 58、 fancy/“Tell me where is fancy bred . in the heart or in the head?” (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 3.2) “告诉我爱情滋生于何方?是在脑海?还是在心房?”(选自莎士比亚威尼斯商人) 59、 farAMOUNT/“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done” (from the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens) “我做的是一件比我以往所曾做的好得多的事。”(选自双城计，狄更斯) 60、 fewNOT MANY/“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” (Shakespeare, Henry V 3.1) “我们是少数的几个人，幸运的少数几个人，我们，是一支兄弟的队伍。”(选自莎士比亚的亨利五世) 61、 flatNOT ACTIVE/“How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /Seem to me all the uses of this world” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 1. 2) “多么地疲惫不堪，陈腐污浊，单调乏味，一无所获 / 在我看来这些似乎就是世界全部的用处所在。”(莎士比亚哈姆雷特中台词) 62、 flatter obj/“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering” (George Bernard Shaw in John Bulls Other Island, 1907) “真正让人感到得到奉承的是你认为他值得奉承”(引自萧伯纳1907年约翰牛的另一个岛) 63、 foolPERSON/“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” (from the poem An Essay in Criticism by Alexander Pope, 1711) “天使怕涉足的地方傻瓜闯了进来.”(摘自1711年亚力山大蒲柏诗论批评) 64、 foolish/“I am a very foolish, fond (=silly) old man” (Shakespeare, King Lear 4.7) “我是个愚蠢、可笑的老头”(引自莎士比亚李尔王) 65、 frontier/“Space, the final frontier” (beginning of the television series Star Trek written by Gene Roddenberry) “太空，最后一块未开拓的领土”(由吉恩罗登伯里写作的星际旅行电视系列片中的开场白) 66、 girdle/“Ill put a girdle round about the earth/In forty minutes” (Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream 2.1) “四十分钟后/我将用带束住地球”（莎士比亚的仲夏夜之梦） 67、 lasses/“Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses” (Dorothy Parker News Item, 1937) “女孩戴上眼镜/就少有男人献殷勤”（多萝西帕克的新闻报道） 68、 golden/“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules” (from Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw, 1903) “原则就是没有原则”（选自萧伯纳的人与超人 ） 69、 grainSMALL PIECE/“To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,/And Eternity in an hour” (William Blake in the poem Auguries of Innocence, c. 1803) “从一粒沙中看世界/从一朵野花中看天堂/在你的手掌中握住无限/把握住一个时辰中的永恒”(威廉姆布莱克的诗天真之歌) 70、 graveDEATH/“The Graves a fine and private place/But none I think do there embrace” (Andrew Marvell in the poem To His Coy Mistress, 1681) “坟墓是一个幽静的好地方/但我想没人想拥抱它”(安德鲁马韦尔的诗致羞涩的情人) 71、 hesitate/“He who (originally the woman that) hesitates is lost.” (Joseph Addison in the play Cato, 1713) “犹豫不决，良机尽失。”(约瑟夫艾迪生的戏剧作品卡托) 72、 hope/“Hope springs eternal in the human breast” (Alexander Pope in the poem Essay on Man, 1732) “在人类的胸怀之中，希望是源源不息的。”(人类随笔，作者亚力山大蒲柏) 73、 imposter/“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two imposters just the same” (from the poem If by Rudyard Kipling, 1910) “如果你能遇见胜利和灾难/且同样地对待这两个骗子”(选自拉迪亚德吉卜林的诗如果) 74、 incidental/“The incidental things apply, / As time goes by” (from the song As Time Goes By written by Herman Hupfield, 1931) “小事也成关键时，/当时光流逝”(出自赫尔曼赫普菲尔德所作之歌当时光流逝) 75、 inhumanity/“Mans inhumanity to man / Makes countless thousands mourn!” (from the poem Man was made to Mourn by Robert Burns, 1786) “人类对同类的残忍/使无数人哀痛！”(罗伯特彭斯的诗使人类哀痛) 76、 intellectual/“An intellectual hatred is the worst, / So let her think opinions are accursed”(W.B.Yeats in the poem A Prayer for my Daughter, 1920) “智者的仇恨是最可怕的，/就让她认为这些意见是该诅咒的。”(叶芝的诗作为我女儿祈祷) 77、 island/“No man is an island, entire of itself.”(John Donne Devotions, 1624) “任何人都不是一个孤立存在的岛屿。”(约翰多恩的祈祷) 78、 jamFOOD/“The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today” (from the book Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1872) “规则是明天可以得到的好东西或昨天应该得到的，但绝没有今天应该得到的东西”（引自刘易斯卡罗尔1872年著作镜中世界） 79、 jingle (obj)RING/“Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way” (Christmas song written by J. S. Pierpont,) “丁丁当，丁丁当，铃儿响丁当”（JS皮尔庞特作的圣诞歌） 80、 jointCONNECTION/“The time is out of joint; O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it right!” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 1. 5) “这是一个颠倒混乱的时代，哎，倒霉的我却要负起重整乾坤的责任！”（莎士比亚汉姆雷特） 81、 judge (obj)DECIDE/“Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Bible, Matthew 7. 1) “你们不要论断人，免得你们被论断。”（圣经马太福音） 82、 kindGOOD/“Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood” (from the poem In Memoriam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850) “仁慈的心比小冠冕多，/而纯洁的信念比诺曼人的血多”（选自丁尼生1850年的诗悼念集） 83、 knowledge/“Knowledge itself is power” (Francis Bacon in Religious Meditations, 1597) “知识就是力量”（选自弗朗西斯培根宗教沉思录） 84、 large/“Its as large as life and twice as natural” (Lewis Carroll in his book Alice Through the Looking-Glass, 1872) “活灵活现，比真的还可信”（选自刘易斯卡罗尔的爱丽斯的镜中世界） 85、 laugh/“Laugh and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone” (in the poem Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1883) “你笑，世界和你一起笑，/你哭，只有你一个人哭。”（选自埃拉惠勒威尔科克斯的诗孤独） 86、 learning/“A little learning is a dangerous thing” (Alexander Pope in the poem Essay on Criticism, 1711) “一知半解是危险的事”（引自蒲柏论批评一诗） 87、 lie (obj)SPEAK FALSELY/“If any question why we died, / Tell them, because our fathers lied” (Rudyard Kipling in the poem Common Form , 1919) “如果有人问我们为什么死，告诉他们，因为我们的父辈说了谎。”（引自吉卜林的诗遗嘱的验证） 88、 lonely/“Only the lonely, know why I cry” (from the song Only The Lonely by Roy Orbinson, 1960) “只有孤独的人才知道我为什么哭”（引自罗伊奥宾逊的歌曲只有孤独的人） 89、 lookSEE/“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” (song from the film Monty Pythons Life of Brian , 1979) 对生活永远应当看到光明的一面。（引自影片蒙蒂派森的布赖恩生平插曲） 90、 love objLIKE SOMEONE/“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelon