22-07-18 Philip had spent three months in Heidelberg when one morning the Frau Professor told him that an Englishman named Hayward was coming to stay in the house, and the same evening at supper he saw a new face. For some days the family had lived in a stat...

22-02-08 IMHO my humble opinion 恕我直言 IMHO是一个美国的俚语，是汉语里恕我直言的意思，请看例句： Jin Yong is more literary, which sometimes may get a little heavy handed, IMHO. 恕我直言，金庸有时过于文艺了。...

21-11-10 负荆请罪，字面意思是背着荆杖，向当事人请罪（proffer a birch and ask for punishment by flogging），用于赔礼道歉的场合，形容主动向人认错、道歉，自请责罚。可以翻译为offer a humble and sincere apology。 例句： 你最好是负荆请罪，我相信他会原谅你。 Youd b...

21-01-24 FOR some weeks Christie rested and refreshed herself by making her room gay and comfortable with the gifts lavished on her by the Carrols, and by sharing with others the money which Harry had smuggled into her possession after she had steadily refus...

13-09-02 Humblebrag , the combination of humble and brag, is the lowest, most despicable and loathsome form of self promotion, often delivered in one or two fragmented sentences on social networking sites. A typical and popular approach is to use a disingenu...

11-06-29 If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff（小艇） , even though he be a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat, he will shout at him to steer（控制，驾驶） clear. If the shou...