21-05-07 Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest. My Fanny, indeed, at this very time, I...

21-01-10 食言，指对自己说过的话不进行履行，形容说话不算数，不守信用（break ones promise），可以翻译为go back on ones word，表示to not do something one said one would do；to renege on something。 例句： 如果他答应帮忙，他就不会食言。 If he promised to help, h...

20-11-11 A Gentleman, my lady. Taking a card from the silver salver on which the servant offered it, Lady Trevlyn read, Paul Talbot, and below the name these penciled words, I beseech you to see me. Lillian stood beside her and saw the line. Their eyes met,...

20-10-20 moon away 虚度时光 over the moon 欣喜若狂 moon-faced 圆脸的 moonhead 笨蛋；傻瓜 moonstruck 发狂的, 神经错乱的 aim [level] at the moon 想入非非, 野心太大 as changeable as the moon 象月亮一样善变； 反复无常 bark [bay] at the moon [bay the moon] 空嚷嚷...

20-10-18 Kate: Hey Mary! Look at my new skirts! Are they beautiful? 嘿，玛丽！看看我的新裙子！它们是不是很漂亮呢？ Mary: Yes, they are. You went shopping again? 是的，很漂亮。你又去购物了？ Kate: Ahem...Yeah...But they gave 20% discount for cash payment. So...

20-10-14 1 I promise you. 我答应你。 你可以用这句话来向他人作出保证。动词promise指承诺、保证。 2 Ill make good on that promise. 我会说到做到。 表达make good on something的意思是履行诺言、承诺。所以，这句话中的make good on that promise指兑现那个承诺。 3 I giv...

15-01-09 While we were arguing thus, Dubois' four companions were drinking with the poacher, and as wine disposes the malefactor's heart to new crimes and causes him to forget his old, our bandits no sooner learned of my resolution than, unable to make me th...

14-10-30 aim [level] at the moon 想入非非, 野心太大 as changeable as the moon 象月亮一样善变； 反复无常 bark [bay] at the moon [bay the moon] 空嚷嚷；徒劳； 枉费心机 below [under] the moon 月下的；尘世的 boast above [beyond] the moon 捧上天, 海阔天空地吹牛 m...

14-10-13 If you scold him, you are like a nanny to him; If he scolds you, it is because he cares for you. If you break your promise, you cannot be trusted; If he breaks his, he is forced to do so. If you smoke, you are a bad girl; If he smokes, he is a gentl...

14-09-11 As Hortense well knew Clyde was pressing more and more hungrily toward that ultimate condescension on herpart, which, though she would never have admitted it to him, was the privilege of two others. They were nevertogether any more without his insis...