短语

Possessing an attractive appearance, the ship should have the minimum net register tonnage,the factor on which harbour and oyher dues are based.

Possessing an attractive appearance现在分词短语，用作表示条件的状语，意译成&船舶除有一个漂亮的外形……&。

The Latin of the best of the Scholastics may be lacking in elegance and distinction; but no one will deny the merits of its rigorous severity of phrase and its logical soundness of construction.

拉丁美洲的最好的scholastics可能缺乏在优雅和区别，但没有人会否认的优点，其严格的严重性，短语和其逻辑的稳健性建设。

An old superstition says that if you cross your fingers (usually two fingers of the same hand) it will bring good luck.

它是非常常用的1个短语。古时西方有个说法：如果同1只手交叠2根手指，就能带来好运。这个和俺们东方人合掌念菩萨保佑似乎异曲同工呢

"It is a matter of waft rather than word-choice," he tells us, with a characteristically musical turn of phrase.

他告诉我们，带着一种表示特性的短语的音乐变化，&那只关乎虚无，而不是单词选择&。

If you promise to keep quiet about something you say mum's the word.

&mum's the word &这个短语来自于莎士比亚的《亨利六世》。

Nobody is sure where and when the expression apple pie order began.

没有人确切知道何时何地短语& apple pie order&兴起。

Today we tell about the expression,"apple pie order." It means in perfect order, very well organized.

今天我们讲短语& apple pie order&意思是排列有序，组织合理。

It is defined as a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them; broadly: figurative language.

这是一种语法，以一个字或短语在文字上指示一个物体或概念，是用于代替和表示两者的相像性或类似性；广义来说：是比喻性语言。

But when the uncountable noun is modified by and adjective or a prepositional phrase, it becomes countable and therefore can be modified by the indefinite article to refer to an individual or a specific type.

英语的不可数名词不能冠以不定冠词，但当不可数名词受到形容词或介词短语的修饰或限定时却变成可数名词，因而可以受到不定冠词的修饰，表示某种个别的或特殊的情况。

The uncountable noun should not be preceded by the indefinite article. But when the uncountable noun is modified by and adjective or a prepositional phrase, it becomes countable and therefore can be modified by the indefinite article to refer to an individual or a specific type.

英语的不可数名词不能冠以不定冠词，但当不可数名词受到形容词或介词短语的修饰或限定时却变成可数名词，因而可以受到不定冠词的修饰，表示某种个别的或特殊的情况。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。