expressions

The fashionable remarks of today often become the commonplace expressions of tomorrow.

今天时髦往往变成明天陈词滥调。

In this dictionary we often gloss difficult expressions with an explanation in brackets.

在这本词典里我们常常用括号内解释来注解难懂词。

Tommy immediately put on his sucky expression.

汤米立即摆出了那副奴颜婢膝。

He had a somber expression on his face.

面容忧郁。

'To pull a face' is an idiomatic expression.

'To pull a face'──'愁眉苦脸'是一个习惯达法。

Her face had an expression of absolute serenity.

她脸上带着极为平静。

There was a tranquil expression on his face.

脸上有一种安祥自若。

They greeted him with many expressions of pleasure.

们说了许多示欢迎。

He has a passive expression on his face.

脸上有一种漠然。

Belinda's face took on a mulish expression.

贝琳达脸上显露出倔强神。

Modernism was the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity.

现代主义是现代经验典型现。

In our reading we should always be alert for idiomatic expressions.

我们在阅读过程中应经常注意惯用法。

The chastised child looked at her father with a pathetic, doleful expression.

被责骂孩子哀怜地、悲伤地看着她父亲。

The expressions on their faces spoke for themselves—they hated the film.

们脸上不用说也很清楚——们讨厌这部电影。

The primitive form of language is pictograph, a symbolic pictural expression of ideas.

文字最初形态——象形文字是图形。

The vacancy of the boy’s expression made Father doubt if he was listening.

儿子毫无使父亲怀疑是否在专心听。

The cathedral at Chartres is an expression of the religious fervor of the Middle Ages.

在查特雷斯大教堂是中世纪时期宗教热现之一。

"Sayable" is a relatively closed system of expressions, and "unsayable" is a relatively open one.

可说"是相对封闭性系统,"不可说"是相对开放性系统。"

I didn’t trust his shifty expression.

贼眉鼠眼, 我不信任。

She always has a sleepy expression.

她总是一副懒洋洋。