查询词典 old wives' tale

The engravings in George Stephens's 1839 translation of the Frithiof tale established the principal elements: the lavishly appointed hall, the pagan temple (Victorian enthusiasts regarded old northern pagan piety as preferable to modern scientific rationalism), the rune stones, and the longship (a symbol of high-technological energy and enterprise).

在乔治的版画斯蒂芬斯的1839年翻译Frithiof故事设立的主要内容：任命的华丽大厅，异教神庙（维多利亚爱好者视为异教徒岁北部孝道作为最好现代科学理性主义）中，符文的石头，和longship。

They gave Rose Morat an entrance befitting a 101-year-old woman who had taken the best shot from a street thug, and lived to tell the tale.

他们向这个百岁老太太表示特别的欢迎，因为她被街上的恶棍打得着实不轻，却能挺过来。

Among his best known stories is Kafka on the Shore, a compelling tale of two individuals, a fifteen-year-old boy named Kafka Tamura who leaves home in an attempt to escape a gruesome Oedipal curse placed on him by his father, and an aging simpleton named Satoru Nakata who has the ability to talk to cats.

然而，他最出名的小说还是《海边的卡夫卡》，该作品围绕两个人物展开：为了逃避可怕的父亲强加的恋母情结而离家出走的15岁少年田村卡夫卡以及可以和猫交流的老年"呆子"中田聪。

The combination of hushed reverence and overheated chromatic harmonies of Richard Wagner's late opera Parsifal fatally inflated the Holy Grail theme, while it brought the old medieval tale back into a wider public consciousness.

理查德 瓦格纳的晚期歌剧《帕西法尔》把寂静的庄严和热情的色彩结合和融洽起来，把古老的中世纪故事带回到更广泛的公众意识的时候，却致命地把圣杯主题夸大了。

The shadows and the generations, the shrill doctors and the plangent wars, go by into ultimate silence and emptiness; but underneath all this, a man may see, out of the Belvedere windows, much green and peaceful landscape; many fire-lit parlors; good people laughing, drinking , and making love as they did before the Flood or the Errant Revolution; and the old shepherd telling his tale under the hawthorn.

那些阴暗的幽灵，已逝的世代，尖声叫喊的博士，轰轰烈烈的战争，都匆匆过去，永远消失。然而，我们从望楼的窗口中，透过这一切还看到了一片青葱的和平景象，看到灯火辉煌的客厅；看到象在洪水到来之前或是法国革命前夕那样善良的人们在欢笑、在饮酒、在求爱；也看到了牧羊老人在山楂树下讲述着他自己的故事。

Outside, where the garden was yesterday, there is now a white and glistening level, and the village beyond is no longer your own familiar cluster of roofs but a village in an old German fairy-tale. You would not be surprised to learn that all the people there, the speetacled postmistress, the cobbler, the retired school master, and the rest, had suffered a change too and had become queer elvish beings, purveyors of invisible caps and magic shoes.

那里所有的人：戴眼镜的女邮政局长、补鞋工人、退休的小学校长以及其他的人也经历了一场变化，变成了奇怪的精灵般的人为你提供隐形帽和魔力鞋。

In the back-and-forth between Clinton and Gingrich, and in the elections of 2000 and 2004, I sometimes felt as if I were watching the psychodrama of the Baby Boom generation—a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago—played out on the national stage.

在克林顿和 Gingrich 你来我往和2000与2004年的大选都使我感觉自己好象是在看一部婴儿潮时期的心理剧（种很久以前流行于一小部分大学校园中关于吝啬与复仇的故事）在国家政治的舞台上上演。

In the back-and-forth between Clinton and Gingrich, and in the elections of 2000 and 2004, I sometimes felt as if I were watching the psychodrama of the Baby Boom generation-a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago-played out on the national stage.

在克林顿和金里奇之间你来我往的争斗中，在2000年和2004年的选举中，我有时感觉自己是在观看生育高峰的一代人在国家政治舞台上喧泻情感，出演心理剧（一种可使患者的感情得以发泄从而达到心理治疗效果的戏剧），讲述一个在很久以前，一群大学生在上学时就构思策划好的包含怨恨和复仇的故事。

As Obama once said about the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, contested by candidates from a much earlier cohort of that postwar generation,"I sometimes felt as if I were watching the psychodrama of the baby boom generation — a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago — played out on the national stage."

诚如奥巴马在谈到由一批战后早期出生的候选人参选的2000年和2004年总统选举时所说，"有时，我觉得好像在观看婴儿潮那一代人的心理剧──一个在全国舞台上演出的源于很久以前在少数大学校园中策划的积怨和报复阴谋的故事。"

"That is a pretty gruesome tale, old chap," he said in a quavering voice,"but allow me to relate the story of the man whose wife gave birth to an apparition."

"哥们，这故事真是可怕。"他颤着声说："但请听我讲讲另外一个人的事，他老婆生了个鬼怪。"

You can buy sweetened beverages, if that suits you.

你若喜欢的话，可以买些含有糖精的混合饮料。

As many of you are probably aware, Nick and Vanessa were recently faced with an embarrasing sex scandal after naked pictures of the two getting jiggy with it in a hot tub surfaced the net.

正如很多你可能知道，尼克和 Vanessa 最近面临一个尴尬的绯闻事件后，赤裸裸的图片两个越来越jiggy与它在浴缸中的一个热点浮现净。