我们一起背单词

木耳

37章结尾总结南方战后的情况，跟双城记开头很有一拼：

Bright lights and wine, fiddles and dancing, brocade and broadcloth in the showy big houses and, just around the corners, slow starvation and cold. Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.

冰问

今天看到一个同学发的状态： 

too occupied to love（累觉不爱），too tough to tell（人艰不拆）......

灵儿

          今天第一次看到3K黨的全稱：Ku Klux Klan

          順便查了下黑手黨：Mafia 或 Cosa Nostra

灵儿

差異比較大的一對詞：ginger 姜 gingerly 小心翼翼地（看字面以為是潑辣地）

木耳

38章里几个负能量句子：

 

But, she told herself time and again, she would have to walk easily, gingerly, be meek under insults, yielding to injustices, never giving offense to anyone, black or white, who might do her harm.

　　　　　

Scarlett had little use these days for honesty in herself, but the less she valued it in herself the more she was beginning to value it in others.

　　　　　

“All you’ve done is to be different from other women and you’ve made a little success at it. As I’ve told you before, that is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! Scarlett, the mere fact that you’ve made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn’t succeeded. Remember, a well-bred female’s place is in the home and she should know nothing about this busy, brutal world.”

　　　　　

“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.”

If you are different; you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents’ generation and from your children’s generation too. They’ll never understand you and they’ll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: ‘There’s a chip off the old block,’ and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: ‘What an old rip Grandma must have been!’ and they’ll try to be like you.”

灵儿

       38章Rhett回答Scarlett時，用到一句：The dogs bark but the caravan passes on.

       這便是“走自己的路，讓別人說去吧”的庸俗版英語表達吧。

       那麼，走自己的路，讓別人跟著你走，該咋通俗？The dogs follow when the caravan passes on?

木耳

原帖由 灵儿 于 2013-10-17 12:17 发表        38章Rhett回答Scarlett時，用到一句：The dogs bark but the caravan passes on.       這便是“走自己的路，讓別人說去吧”的庸俗版英語表達吧。    &nb ...

 

这个得请英语达人来解释。

40章里有一句话也很有道理：

Sometimes, words meant in the utmost respect were misconstrued by overstrung relatives of the dead and scarcely were the last shovels of earth mounded above the coffin before trouble began.

[ 本帖最后由 木耳 于 2013-10-17 17:09 编辑 ]

木耳

41章描写皮包骨头的Melanie依然有颗勇敢的心：

　　　　　They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.

冰问

今天看到段歌词，前面几句，算不算中文中的顶针？：）

"All my life I've been searching for something

Something never comes never leads to nothing

Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close

Closer to the prize at the end of the rope

And I'm done, done and I'm on to the next one.“

                          ------ All my life, by Foo Fighters

歌曲链接：http://www.xiami.com/song/play?ids=/song/playlist/id/1769186242/object_name/default/object_id/0

回复102楼：人艰不拆？算是网络热词么......"人生已如此艰难，有些事就不要拆穿"，网上称来自林宥嘉的歌......

[ 本帖最后由 冰问 于 2013-10-20 23:43 编辑 ]

木耳

原帖由 灵儿 于 2013-10-16 15:46 发表 差異比較大的一對詞：ginger 姜 gingerly 小心翼翼地（看字面以為是潑辣地）

 

飘的43章提到了摇椅，rocking chair。感觉rock也是个差异大的词，摇滚乐跟石头怎么是同一个词呢。。。