" Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, " roughly translated.

大意是“小心带礼物来的希腊人”。

Wilson suggested that Americans are sometimes known to be careless in their choice of words.

威尔逊认为，美国人有时在选词上粗心大意是出了名的。

The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged.

书的大意是说，如果我们不当心，白色人种就会… … 就会完全被淹没了。

So what’s the drift of the argument?

【drift】那么这一论点的大意是什么？

It was thoughtless of me, it was careless of me, an example?

是我大意了，是我大意了，举个例子？

The letter said something to the effect that she was no longer needed.

【effect】信中表达的大意是，不再需要她了。

I got through some jargon to the effect that I took the liberty of doubting that.

我理解了一，大意是我冒昧地怀疑这一点。

I hope not so. Imprudence or thoughtlessness in money matters would be unpardonable in me.

“但不会如此。我要是在银钱问题上粗心大意，那是不的。”

The main idea is that there's authoritative and approachable, but there's also warm and cold on both.

大意是既有权威又有平易近人，但也有冷暖之分。

It had a stamped message from the mailman across it to the effect that the addressee was unknown.

上面有邮递员盖章的信息，大意是收件人不详。

And he tells me something to the effect of, you never know how things are going to work out.

他告诉我一大意是，你永远不知道事情会如何发展。

The conversation was to the effect that the strange gentleman who had taken Mount Lodge for the season was seriously ill.

谈的大意是那个在洛奇山度过这个季节的陌生绅士病得很重。

We became particularly hot upon some boorish sneer of Drummle's, to the effect that we were too free with our money.

我们对Drummle的一粗鲁的嘲笑变得特别热衷，大意是我们太自由了。

Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.

科学家们急忙介入，但提出的证据显然站不住脚，其大意是，如果鸟类不能控制昆虫的数量，昆虫便会吞噬我们人类。

Once you understand what the general idea is, then you scan the rest of the paragraph, looking for keywords that support that topic sentence.

一旦你理解了大意是什么，你就以浏览段落的其余部分， 寻找支持该主题句的关键词。

Unfortunately, Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone's significance and merely made a few cautious and uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper.

威斯塔没有完全认识到这根骨头的重要意义，只是小心翼翼地讲了几句不痛不痒的，大意是，它真是个庞然大物。

Here I would say views and changes, because we already know that museums are part of the general idea, so no need to underline museums.

这一个我要说看法和改变，因为我们已经知道博物馆是主旨大意的一部分，所以没必要标记博物馆。

This inquiry he accompanied by a warning to the effect that the United States could not permit any European power to contest its mastery in this hemisphere.

他在询问的同时发出警告，大意是美国不能允许任何欧洲强国争夺其在该半球的控制权。

During the debate on the subject an extreme view had been presented, to the effect that Congress had no constitutional warrant for abolishing slavery in the territories.

在关于该主题的辩论中， 出现了一种极端观点，大意是国会没有宪法授权废除领土内的奴隶制。

Mrs. Penniman had given her a message from Morris Townsend, to the effect that he would come and welcome her home on the day after her arrival.

彭尼曼夫人给她带来了莫里斯汤森的口信， 大意是他会在她抵达后的第二天来欢迎她回家。