In spoken English, a calm before the storm is the period of quiet before something dramatic happens.

在英语口语中，暴风雨之前的宁静是指某戏剧性事物发生之前一段宁静的时期。

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English sports fans sometimes cringe when they hear commentary on US sports. In the US, commentators tend to shout more, and be more dramatic with their statements.

每当收听美国运动赛事的解说时，英国体育迷们有时会想退避三舍。在美国，评论员更愿意大喊大叫，解说也更加戏剧化。

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This is an expression we use in English to say that you had such a dramatic fall that your head was over your feet and we use it when we want to say that someone fell madly in love.

这个表达在英语里表示狠狠地摔了一跤，跌了个四脚朝天，也可以用来表示某人疯狂地陷入了爱河！

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The most dramatic ceremony was in London's Westminster Abbey, where English kings and queens have been crowned for centuries.

WSJ: Thomas Fleming: An English Thanksgiving, 1942

Half a century after Beatlemania rocked the world, the once gritty English port has transformed itself into a giant emporium of Beatles-related sights, a dramatic turnaround from the 1980s when the only object memorialising the band was a modest statue in the city centre.

BBC: The Beatles�� Liverpool