然而,法国对于梯也尔在议会上发表的自以为象海妖的歌声一样迷人的言辞置若罔闻。
France, however, turned a deaf ear to what Thiers flattered himself to be a parliamentary siren's song.
水泥的行情也很火爆:在多哥的价格是200美元/吨,这个价格就像海妖迷人的歌声,引诱来自遥远港口的水泥货船。
Cement’s going rate is glorious, too: $200 per metric ton in Togo, a sum like a siren song luring clunky cement ships from their distant ports.
尤利西斯做得对:为了忍受海妖塞壬那充满诱惑但是致命的歌声,他不但将自己绑在桅杆上,而且命令船员要无视释放自己的要求。
Ulysses had it right: in order to endure listening to the seductive-but-deadly sirens, not only did he have himself bound to the mast, but he ordered his crew to ignore his demands to set him free.
而我则像荷马史诗中的尤利西斯,为了抵抗海妖歌声的诱惑,把自己紧紧绑在桅杆上。
But I am like Ulysses, safely lashed to my ship’s mast, yearning for the sirens’ song.
好莱坞应当警惕美妙的海妖歌声。
我能听见她每天暖身,就像一个动人歌声的海妖在那儿唱歌。
I can hear her warming-up, bellowing like a siren through the scales.
我们总是闭上眼睛,不去正视痛苦的现实,而倾听海妖的美妙的歌声,直到她把我们变成动物。
We are APT to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts.
我们总是闭上眼睛,不去正视痛苦的现实,而倾听海妖的美妙的歌声,直到她把我们变成动物。
We are APT to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts.
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