扫兴

That killjoy ruined the fun by take our beer away.

那个扫兴的家伙把啤酒拿走了。

In spite of early promise, Selden goes on to be more a killjoy than a saint.

尽管他早就保证过，塞尔登还是与其说是在装圣人，不如说是在扫兴。

In the past, when I've written about the health risks of grilling, readers have told me I'm a killjoy.

以前，我写些有关烧烤的健康隐患的文章时，读者们都说我那是在令人扫兴。

Killjoy.- Are you guys always like this?

扫兴男 -你们几个一直都这样？

Accessing this refreshment in your meditation gives you immediate, visceral proof that the Buddha was no killjoy.

在你的冥想当中进入这种心旷神怡的状态，会给你直接的立即的、深刻的证明，证明佛陀不是令人扫兴的。

After you taste the food, you feel such a letdown.

但是，当你真正去了以后，却感到失望和扫兴。

All of them are half life-size; they are also, it sadly turns out, replicas.

它们有半人高，而且扫兴的是，人们发现这些都是仿制品。

It is neither he nor I who rained on your parade.

使你扫兴的，既不是他也不是我。

The sudden downpour put a chill into the picnicker s.

突然落下的倾盆大雨使野餐的人感到扫兴。

The bad weather c**pire with some other unpleasant cause to ruin our picnic.

坏天气加上其他一些不愉快原因使我们的野餐令**为扫兴。

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。