choir张培基英译现代散文选2

张培基英译现代散文选

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Phrasal Expression & Words

a blade of grass

Be on an equal footing with…

与

…

平起平

Copious tears of joy

A chill in the air

坐

A constellation of fine arts

异彩纷呈

be on/at one’s heels

紧跟着

a grain of sand

Be ordained by fate

a later invention/practice

Be overgrown with grass

A propensity for …

Be pleasant to the ear:

悦耳动听

a red streak of dawn

一道红霞

Be pregnant with meaning

a string of cash

一吊钱

Be shrouded / veiled in…

笼罩在

a suckling baby

乳儿

Be sloppy in thinking

A tremulous voice

颤抖的声音

Be subject to the law of nature

A vast expanse of white

Be thoroughly drenched / soaked

Abandon oneself to…= be lost in…

Be uncalled for

不合适

Absence of any feeling

begrudge doing = be unwilling to do

add … in passing

顺便说道

Bemoan the transience of youth

ajar

门半开

Best serve for an answer

All the more = more

blood debt(s)

血债

Alley = alleyways

Blot out

抹去

Amble along

Boundless expanse

amphitheater

Bring about a … mood

Anti-Japanese

Guerrilla

Detachment

抗

Broad and liberal

胸径宽广

日游击队

bronchial tube

支气管

arrive on the scene

Burst into fits of abuse

Artifice

诡计

Buzz with activity

活跃起来

At an opportune moment

碰巧

by and large

at long last

终于

cadence

抑扬顿挫

At one go = in one sitting

Call forth tears = trigger tears

At one’s insistence

canine phobia

怕狗

At the suggestion of …

Canvass (for) support

游说以获得支持

awning

遮阳蓬

cessation

base cowardice

卑怯

Chalk up…

用粉笔写下

bayonet

刺刀

chant Buddhist scripture

Be ablaze with…

通明

Chestnut:

栗树

/

子

be adequately fed and clad

丰衣足食

Chin up and chest out

抬头挺胸

be at loggerheads with…

与

…

/

不合

Choke with sobs

be bereft of … = be deprived of…

chorus of wild yells

Be bogged down in a mire

陷入泥淖

Clog

阻碍，木屐

Be clad in…

Cluck

咯咯叫

be confined to bed by sickness

Come of = result from

be daubed with…

散漫地涂有

Come to the fore

崭露头角

Be given to doing

习惯于

Congenial response

共鸣

be immensely overjoyed

欣喜若狂

consult sb on …

Be of long standing

老资格

Consummate = skillful = perfect

Crestfallen = dejected

cringe = cower

Dabble in water

戏水

Damp down one’s passion

day in and out

dazzling brilliance

炫目

/

夺目的光辉

Deadly dull

极其乏味

Delicate features

纤细的面貌

Denude trees of leaves

despotic

专制的

detachment

小分队

Diehard

顽固分子

Din = hubbub: loud sound

Dine and wine

Domineering

专横的

Downy: fluffy + soft

Dream away = dawdle away

drool copiously

垂涎三尺

Drudge

苦工，辛苦劳作

drudgery

苦差

Dwell one’s eyes on…

凝视

dye… red

染红

Eatery

餐饮店

Ebony eyes/skin

黑眼睛

/

黝黑皮 肤

Edible bird’s nest

燕窝

End up in a complete fiasco

惨败

Enfeeble = weaken

epithet

绰号

Ethereal

超凡的，优雅的

Failing = if without

Falcon

鹰隼

(sun)

feel conscience-stricken

Feel instantly refreshed

顿时神清气爽

feel overawed

肃然起敬

Fellow provincial

老乡

firmament

苍穹

get a good thrashing

Get on in years

上年纪

Get the worst of it

处于劣势

Gild…

使

…

金子般发光

give sb. the slip

把某人甩掉