中英對(duì)白
Mr Bates, what's the matter?
貝茨先生 你怎么了
Nothing. Not a thing. I'm fine.
沒(méi)事 我很好
Let me help you.
我來(lái)幫你拿吧
I'm perfectly all right, thank you, Mrs Hughes.
我真的沒(méi)事 謝謝你 休斯太太
Are you sure?
真的嗎
You're as white as a sheet.
你臉色蒼白得很
That's my wonderful complexion,
我天生就這么白
inherited from my Irish mother.
隨我那愛(ài)爾蘭裔的母親
詞匯精講
Complexion
【雙語(yǔ)釋義】natural color and appearance of the skin of the face
C.N.(天生的)面色, 臉色, 面貌
【典型范例】The lawyer was a worried-looking young man with a bad complexion and thickglasses.
律師是一個(gè)年輕人,一臉疑云,氣色不佳,戴著深度眼鏡。
【聯(lián)想記憶】a good complexion:臉色好 a dark complexion:臉色黑
a fair complexion:臉色白 a sallow complexion 臉色黃
a pale complexion:蒼白的臉色 a bad complexion:病態(tài)的臉色
Inherit
【雙語(yǔ)釋義】derive (qualities, etc) from an ancestor
因遺傳而獲(特性等)
【典型范例】She inherited her mother's good looks and her father's bad temper.
她生來(lái)就有母親的美貌和父親的壞脾氣。