expressions

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

今天的时髦话往往变成明天的陈词滥调。

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的解释来注解难懂的词。

Tommy immediately put on his sucky expression.

汤米立即摆出了他那副奴颜婢膝的表情。

They greeted him with many expressions of pleasure.

他们说了许多表示欢迎他的话。

'To pull a face' is an idiomatic expression.

'To pull a face'──'愁眉苦脸'是一个习惯表达法。

Her face had an expression of absolute serenity.

她脸上着极为平静的表情。

He had a somber expression on his face.

他面容忧郁。

Belinda's face took on a mulish expression.

贝琳达脸上显露出倔强的神情。

He has a passive expression on his face.

他脸上有一种漠然的表情。

There was a tranquil expression on his face.

他脸上有一种安祥自若的表情。

Modernism was the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity.

现代主义是现代经验的典型表现。

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.

被责骂的孩子哀怜、悲着她的父亲。

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

他们脸上的表情不用说也很清楚——他们讨厌这部电影。

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

文字的最初形态——象形文字是图形。

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

儿子毫无表情使父亲怀疑他是否在专心听。

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

可说"是相对封闭性的系统,"不可说"是相对开放性的系统。"

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

在查特雷斯的大教堂是中世纪时期宗教热情的表现之一。

I didn’t trust his shifty expression.

他贼眉鼠眼, 我不信任他。

Oliver assumed an expression of penitence.

奥利弗装出悔罪的样子。