当某个人谈到大卫和歌利亚,他的意思是一个小个的人,或弱者正在打败一个非常高大和强壮的敌人。
When someone talks about a David and Goliath, he means that a smaller, or weaker, person is trying to fight a very large and strong enemy.
那时候我还非常小,在我幼稚的眼里,他比任何一棵树都高大。
I was very small at the time, and to my childish eyes, he appeared taller than the trees.
这些马匹非常高大,让玛丽(假名)和她的八岁女儿吓了一跳,她表示。
The horses were big enough to scare Marie (not her real name) and her eight-year-old daughter, she says.
在30年的生长中,北美的板栗林失去了物种——高大的栗树——的每个标本,这是以前板栗林中非常重要的一块。
In the space of 30 years the old-growth chestnut forest in North America lost every specimen of a species — the mighty chestnut — that formerly constituted a significant hunk of the forest's mass.
这人说:“你以为一个个子高大、非常粗壮的人,他的声音一定会非常低沉。但是我那邻居,虽然他高头大马,体重有120公斤,然而他的声音却又高又细,就像一个体格比他小一半的人发出来的声音。”
You expect a big, beefy man to have a deep, deep voice. But my beefy neighbor who must weigh 120 kilos has a high-pitched squeaky voice like a man half his size.
在20世纪90年代一个很小但却非常有影响力的研究表明,听古典音乐,尤其是莫扎特古典乐,能提高大学生的考试成绩表现,因此得出的结论就是(后来就开始疯传起来):莫扎特音乐,成就你更聪明的头脑!
In the 1990s a small yet very influential study showed that listening to classical music, and in particular Mozart, improved test performance in college students -thus Mozart must make you smarter!
大佛非常高大,高于我们村庄的任何一座建筑。
The Buddha is really very big: taller than the highest building in our village.
在2050年,这些新种的树苗一定会长的非常高大。
你以为一个个子高大、非常粗壮的人有一个低沉的声音。
我们的老师是一位身材高大且非常严厉。
艾伦是一个非常高大的男孩。
“他非常强壮,高大,”费尔马伦露齿一笑说。
如何提高大学生英语听说能力已成为目前大学英语教学中一个非常重要的课题。
How to improve students' capabilities of English speaking and listening has been one of the foci in college English teaching at present.
在一个非常高大的建筑物的屋顶有四个人;
他是一个高大、肥胖的人,对自己的帽子感到非常自豪,这帽子向别人表示他是位最重要的官员。
He was a large, fat man, and very proud of his hat, which showed the world that he was a most important official. It was, in fact, Mr Bumble the beadle, o liver's old enemy.
为你的小狗,非常小的狗,当它象你一样变老,它将会高大强壮。
P is for your puppy, that's a dog very small, when he gets older, just like you, he will be strong and tall.
在舞台剧的版本,达令先生与铁钩船长由同一演员扮演,积逊艾萨斯饰演孩子们的父亲看来非常温顺,但扮演铁钩船长则略嫌高大。
As in the theatre productions, Mr Darling and Captain Hook are played by the same actor. Jason Isaacs seems very meek as the children's father but is more than lifesize as Hook.
任一种原产于南非的高大的红褐色牛,非常耐热,有隆起的背部和展开的大牛角。
Any of a breed of tall red cattle that were originally developed in South Africa, are well adapted to heat, and have a humped back and large spreading horns.
我们坐飞机去,我认为上海必须是一个非常大的城市,有许多高大的建筑物。
We got there by plane, I think that Shanghai must be a very big city, and there are a lot of tall buildings.
有一天,植物变得非常高大,强壮,几乎已经长出罐子上方的开口。
One day the plant became very tall and strong and it was almost out of the mouth of the can.
我坐在一个非常高大女士的后面…
有一个非常奇怪钻头这里的权利之前,故障哪里有一杯她的高大的、白色的衣服,他们已经伸出脸让她看起来像小丑。
There is a really weird bit here right before the breakdown where there is a shot of her in the big white dress, and they've stretched her face so she looks like the joker.
有一天,旅馆来了一位脸上带着刀疤、身材高大结实、非常引人注目的客人,原来他就是比尔船长。
One day, the hotel came on a face big to bring the scar of knife wound, the stature to be solid, the extremely noticeable visitor, originally he was Bill Captain.
有很多体育明星与商业结合成功的例子,名气比宝力高大的有柳海龙,这个例子说明体育成绩和商业利益可以兼得,最根本的一点就是保证自己在赛场的成绩,当然要保持这一高点是非常不容易的。
There are many successful cases on the matter. A good example is Liu Hailong. He is a good model of gaining both sports goal and commercial profits. Basically, good mark in games is a best insurance.
有很多体育明星与商业结合成功的例子,名气比宝力高大的有柳海龙,这个例子说明体育成绩和商业利益可以兼得,最根本的一点就是保证自己在赛场的成绩,当然要保持这一高点是非常不容易的。
There are many successful cases on the matter. A good example is Liu Hailong. He is a good model of gaining both sports goal and commercial profits. Basically, good mark in games is a best insurance.
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