查询词典 wives

I'm too smart to believe in that kind of old wives' tale.

我才不会傻到相信那种老妈子的鬼话。

David: I've heard about vitamin C, but I think the zinc suggestion is an old wives' tale .

大卫： 我听说过维他命 C 有效，但我认为服用锌的建议是无稽之谈。

Not believing it, I replied,"Grandmaaaa, that's just an old wives' tale!"

我可不信这个，回答到："奶奶，那只老主妇们讲出来的故事"！

26Quot;That's an old wives' tale.

26quot；这一观点不过是老妇人的老生常谈而已。

An old wives' tale suggests that swallowed gum sits in your stomach for seven years before it can be digested.

传说有一位老夫人，被她吞下的口香糖在她的胃内呆了7年才被消化。

As for what she has told you about a rich Aunt who will leave her a fortune, it's an old wives ' tale simply because she has no Aunt.

至于她对你说有一位姑母留给她一笔财产，那是无稽之谈，因为她根本就没有姑母。

The saying "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place" is a dangerous old wives' tale that has brought death to many people.

"雷永远不会在同一地方打第二次"这一谚语是很危险的迷信，曾经使许多人丧生。

One old wives \' tale that has endured is that if a woman carries her unborn baby low, then it will be a boy.

根据一则流传至今的老妇人的故事，如果孕妇腹中胎儿的位置较低，那么就会是个男孩。

You do not want to believe the old wives' tale that a red sunset indicates good weather; the weather forecast predicts that it will pour with rain all day tomorrow.

你不要相信迷信，说什么红日落就表明有好天气，气象预报说明天将整天有大雨。

An old wives ' tale (4) says that when you break a mirror you will have seven years of bad luck.

有这样一种无稽之谈，称打碎一面镜子意味着7年的厄运。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。