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From the sad reality of losing a cherished object down a sink or bathtub drain comes this idiom, meaning to do or attempt to do something that ultimately will be lost forever.

这个习语的就源于这样一个可悲的现实：一件心爱的东西掉到水槽或浴缸里被冲走了，无论如何都找不回来了。

He also told her that when the enormous body, as big as a ceiba tree, collapsed into the underbrush it emitted a wordless sob,"like a wet kitten."

他还告诉她说，当对手木棉树般庞大的身躯轰然倒在草丛里时，它发出了一声无语的呜咽，"像只淋湿了的小猫。"

In most cases we have sufficient translators to get them to platoon level, not lower, both French and Creole

在大多数情况下，我们有足够的翻译人员，法语和克里奥尔语的翻译人员，让他们维遲在不低於一个排的人数。

Nothing is less to be desired7 than the fate of a young man who, as the Scotch proverb says, in "trying to make a spoon spoils a horn," 8and becomes a mere hanger-on in literature and in science, when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of Society in other occupations.

天下最不足取的事情，莫过于一个年轻人如同苏格兰语所说的那样，"匙子没做成，倒毁了羊角，"成为在文学或科学领域里滥竽充数的食客；要是去从事其他工作的话，他或许会成为社会上有用和有价值的一员。

Any member of the Creek Confederacy of Muskhogean peoples especially the Muskogee formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma .

从前居住在乔冶亚州和阿拉巴马州但现在主要居住在俄克拉荷马州的马斯科基语的克里克的印第安人。

The orangutan (which means "person of the forest" in Malay) spends most of its life in the forest canopy.

猩猩（马来西亚语的意思是森里的人）一生大部分时间都生活在森林的顶部。

Priscillian, dc 385, was a Spanish ascetic who founded the movement called Priscillianism, which was condemned as heretical by the church.

普里西利安，直流385 ，这是一个西班牙语的禁欲谁创立了所谓的运动priscillianism ，这是谴责为异端邪说，由教会。

While Vladimir spent most of his time staring blankly into space (though when disturbed he might release a stream of profanities or hurl a chamberpot), Goldberg found that he could sometimes engage him with "a casually profane, locker-room-style banter…and a friendship of sorts developed between a brain-damaged student and a student of brain damage."

维拉德米尔大部分的时间都是盯著天花板看(假如你去打搅他，他可能会发出一连串咒骂的话，甚或祭出尿壶)，高德伯发现有时也可以诱导他说话，不过言谈中充满了鄙俗咒骂之语，或是在男生更衣间里说的嘲弄粗野笑话。。。。。。

Hobson-Jobson", written in 1886, lists over 2,000 Anglo-Indian expressions."

可以肯定地说，&Shampoo&和&bungalow&已经在英语词典里拥有它们自己的位置了，但是印度语的&dam&又如何呢？

Today, one province of Canada is French-speaking. The TV and radio programmes there are in French.

今天，加拿大有一个说发语的省，电视和收音机里节目都是用法语播放的。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失