如果说人个子矮,婉转的说法是“高度不够”,如果形容地方小,常会说“空间不足”。
Among people, a euphemism for short ones is "vertically challenged". Among places, it would follow to call tiny ones "spatially challenged.
有一个地方,他的妻子,阿里,形容为他的“人洞”,奥特巴其先生座在一个舒适的椅子上观看他的17英寸的电视。
In one area that his wife, Aly, describes as his "man cave," Mr. Utterbach watches his 17-inch TV screen from a comfortable chair.
“呼啸”是一个意味深长的内地形容词,形容这地方在风暴的天气里所受的气压骚动。
Wuthering 'being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
呼啸是一个寓意很深的地方性形容词,用来描述暴风雨天气中的狂风大作的声音。
'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
在一篇令人难忘的文章中,这家公司被形容为一条“吸血的人面大章鱼,把吸血触手无情的伸进任何有金钱味道的地方”。
One profile memorably likened the firm to a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
原来boozer就是喝酒的地方,酒馆的意思,或者也可以用来形容那种爱酗酒的酒鬼。
Jo: Well, you can make the word ‘boozer’, which has two meanings. It means either a pub, or a person who drinks a lot of booze.
这个成语用来形容极远的地方,或者两个人彼此相隔遥远。
This idiom refers to the remotest places or a very long distance between two people.
这个词是模仿亚洲四小龙和凯尔特虎,这是用来形容在东亚和爱尔兰,分别为地方的经济繁荣时期。
The term is modeled on Four Asian Tigers and Celtic Tiger , which were used to describe the economic boom periods in parts of East Asia and Ireland , respectively.
该园的创建者川名幸一形容它是一个“纯洁,清晰和谐与和平”的地方。
Its creator, Koichi Kawana, describes it as a place of "pure, clear harmony and peace."
房子,居住的地方。现多用于形容呆在家不出门的上网一族。
It literally means the house, or the residence. Now it is used to describe people who obsess about internet and stay at home all day long.
深泽方言有丰富的重叠形式,其名词、动词、形容词的重叠形式无论是在构成形式上还是在表义特征上都有鲜明的地方色彩。
The double forms of its nouns, verbs, adjectives are striking local features, not only in its construction forms, but also on its significant features.
从丹佛到彰声市的漫长车程,牧师一直形容那里的好玩地方,替孩子打气:游乐场、游泳池、冰淇淋摊子,还可能有保龄球场。
All during the long drive from Denver to Junction City, Peter kept up morale by describing the wonders awaiting them: playgrounds, a swimming pool, an ice cream stand, maybe even a bowling alley.
车房这个词显然不足以形容这个地方——它更像是实验室和电脑公司的组合,你会一个人在那里困惑为什么这些人都穿着长裤长袖还带着头盔。
Garage is obviously the wrong word for it - it's more like a mixture of a lab and a computer company, and you are left wondering why the guys are wearing overalls and helmets.
圣华塔尼奥,在墨西哥,太平洋中的一个小地方,你知道墨西哥人怎么形容太平洋的么?
Zihuatanejo, It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the mexicans say about the Pacific?They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life.
圣华塔尼奥,在墨西哥,太平洋中的一个小地方,你知道墨西哥人怎么形容太平洋的么?
Zihuatanejo, It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the mexicans say about the Pacific?They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life.
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