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.
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