"海妖的歌声"是个多义词,它可以指海妖的歌声(书籍),海妖的歌声(黄莺演唱歌曲)。
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.
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