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持续不断一点一点在滴的就说 dripping,是从动词 drip 来的,如果“屋漏”(leak)就是 The rain water is dripping through a crack on the ceiling.那时你可以听到 dripping noise.普通下大雨时,“水从屋檐上落下来”就说 The water drips from the eaves.
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“细水长流”或“涓涓细流”英文是 trickle,如:
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The brook trickled through the valley.(小溪在峡谷间细细流去。)
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Tears trickled down her cheeks.(泪流满面。)
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由水流而引申到人潮等的流动,如:
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An hour before the show people began to trickle into the theatre.(开演前一小时人们开始三三两两地进入戏院。)
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Subscriptions are trickling in.(订单源源而来。)
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The information trickled out.(情形慢慢地泄漏出来。)
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用水冲洗就说 flush,所以“抽水马桶”叫 flush toilet,用过之后用水冲洗就说 flushing the toilet,母亲常要对孩子们说:
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Be sure to flush the toilet when you are through.(你解过手记着要冲马桶。)
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水从某一个地方冒出来就说 gush,例如:
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The water gushed out of the break in the pipe.(水管破了,有水冒出来。)
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流水潺潺的声音叫 gurgle,但声音更响的就用 gargle,如我们早起漱口(rinse the mouth),但喉咙痛时就得用药水漱口,如:
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A. I have a sour throat.
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B. That’s too bad. Did you try gargling Listerine?
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A. No. I didn’t.
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B. That might help.
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喷出来的水由小而大的有 spit-squirt-spirt-spout,如“吐口水”叫 spit,小孩子玩的“水枪”叫 squirt gun=water pistol,喷水小一点的说 squirt,大一点的说 spirt=spurt,如公园中给游人喝的自来水涌出的情形。喷水喷得更大的就说 spout 如鲸的喷水;或喷水池的喷水。
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英文疑难详解 177.content 和 contents
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中文说的“内容”英文译作 content 或 contents,但不知单数与复数在用法上有何分别?
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【解答】此字通常是用复数,意为:(1)内面所有的东西、内容、囊中物,例如:the contents of a room(房间里面的东西),the contents of a box(箱子里的东西),the contents of a bag(囊中物),the contents of a bottle(瓶中物)等。(2)书籍、报纸、杂志、公文等的内容,或内容的目录,例如:the contents of a book(书的内容),a table of contents(目录), A complete contents is to be found in Volume I.(第一卷有全部目录)等。
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用单数时,意为:(1)要旨(essential purport),真义(real meaning),例如:the content of a chapter(一章的要旨),the content of a statement(声明要旨)等。(2)与形式(form)对称的内容(substance),例如:the emotional content of a poem(一首诗的感情丰富的内容)。
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The content of his speech was good, but the form was not.(他的演讲词内容很好,但结构不佳。)
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