世界上的官僚们最为人熟知的本领是,能将最稀松平常的事用颇让人费解的术语形容,他们说的话也只有其他同样身为公务员的人才听得懂。
BUREAUCRATS the world over are famous for their ability to describe the most mundane matters in such convoluted terms that only other civil servants understand what they are saying.
在投身可可世界三十年后,竞争对手和熟人都形容他是可可市场上最有影响力的交易员。
Three decades after his induction into the world of cocoa, his competitors and acquaintances describe him as the most influential trader in the market.
托比-莱斯特的书"世界的第四部分",讲述的是第一张地图的故事,书中用“美利坚”来形容欧洲东部的大陆块。
Toby Lester's book, The Fourth Part of the World, tells the story of the first map that used the word "America" to describe a land mass east of Europe.
日本是世界上自杀率最高的国家之一,甚至还出现了一个形容过度工作而致死的词汇——“过劳死”,这让类似花道的减压活动更受欢迎。
The nation, which has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, even has a term for death by overwork -- karoshi -- making stress-relieving activities such as ikebana all the more popular.
有一种说法来形容荷兰这个耗时几世纪的地理工程:上帝创造了世界,荷兰人创造了荷兰。
There's a saying about the Netherlands and its massive, centuries-long earthworks: "God created the world, but the Dutch created Holland.
一名前公司高管曾用“雷德蒙德的壕沟”这个比喻,来形容这座城堡里的人,特别是那些身居管理要职的人,对外部世界关注之少。
One former exec spoke of a "moat around Redmond" — and how little attention those inside the castle, especially those occupying management positions, pay to the world outside.
回忆起1975年5月19日的那个夜晚,用柯林斯的话来形容就是“从那天起,冈贝的世界开始改头换面”,他当时并不在冈贝,但为了协助处理善后工作,他很快赶了回来。
He recalls May 19, 1975, as "the day the world changed, as far as Gombe was concerned." Collins was absent that night but returned promptly to help cope with the aftermath.
沃尔玛常常被形容为世界上最不尽人情的公司。
Walmart is constantly depicted as the most heartless company in the world.
Krepinevich形容这个世界因为受人口数量和技术趋势驱动,变化得太快。
Krepinevich described a world that is rapidly changing, driven by a number of demographic and technological trends.
有一种说法来形容荷兰这个耗时几世纪的地理工程:上帝创造了世界,荷兰人创造了荷兰。
There's a saying about the Netherlands and its massive, centuries-long earthworks: "God created the world, but the Dutch created Holland."
弗瑞曼形容华生是“夏洛克•福尔摩斯观察世界的眼睛,但同时他也是世界观察福尔摩斯的眼睛,约翰•华生是这一切的见证者。”
Freeman describes Watson as “Sherlock’s eyes on the world, but also the world’s eyes on Sherlock, everything is filtered through John.”
就是啊,这个世界还是有不少这种卑鄙的坏人。 对了,Larry,这个bottom feeder是不是只能用来形容犯罪分子?
LL: Unfortunately, there are a lot of bottom feeders in the world.
毕竟,会见陌生人就意味着接触未知世界。 定冠词和形容词连用,表示一类人或事物。
这个项目曾经被形容为“世界上最大的未经授权艺术展”。
The project has been described as "the largest unauthorised art exhibition in the world".
人口 贩 卖被称形容为世界上增长速度最快的犯罪企业,其盈利能力仅次于贩毒。
Despite the struggle to control it, human trafficking is often described as the fastest-growing criminal enterprise in the world, and as second only to drug trafficking in its profitability.
这是一个高中词汇用来形容每周一小时的世界时事课程。
It is the high school term of art for the hour each week when students are forced to study the state of the world.
Morpheus将其形容为一个“梦幻世界”,但是和一个梦境有所不同,这个世界并不是Neo大脑的产物。
Morpheus described it as a "dreamworld," but unlike a dream, this world was not the creation of Neo's mind.
“这个物质世界,在转,可以被形容为一种”地下能源全息图。
This physical world, in turn, can be described as a sort of mass - energy hologram.
你形容我是这个世界上无与伦比的美丽,我知道你才是这世界上无与伦比的美丽。
You describe me is incomparable beauty in this world, I know you are the incomparable beauty in the world.
不过,淋浴的流行过程可以用“压倒性”来形容,这支纵向供水的大军横行世界时,我们可怜的老浴缸只能瑟缩在他们所过之处的角落里:上世纪70年代,仅有百分之五的家庭拥有淋浴;
But the rise of the shower has been relentless, a sort of upright army marching across the land, while the poor old bathtub has lain trembling in its wake: in 1970, a mere 5% of homes had a shower;
你会用什么样的词语来形容现在这个世界?
请给出几个词形容一下你对中国这个世界力量的看法。
Please give a few words to describe your perception of China as a world power.
一位桑坦德的客户这样形容:有两家西班牙顶级银行的好处,就相当有两家世界足球豪门——巴塞罗那和皇家马德里。
As one Santander client put it, having two top Banks in Spain is almost as good as housing two of the world's best football teams, Barcelona and Real Madrid.
他把美国在世界上的新角色形容为一个受到屈辱的超级大国,而不是一股企图改变世界的力量。
He cast America's new role in the world as one of an aggrieved superpower, not a power intent on changing the globe.
一年一度的“社会论坛”⑶运动聚集了形形色色对当今世界秩序心存不满的社会组织和团体,一名参与其中的意大利马克思主义者这样形容它道。
An Italian Marxist involved in the "Social Forum" movement, which organizes large, disparate gatherings of groups opposed to the existing world order, puts it this way.
答:我想要用影像来形容这个世界,表达我的感受。
KK: I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt.
答:我想要用影像来形容这个世界,表达我的感受。
KK: I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt.
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