Those good-luck chants or someone simply caring enough to ask about my health-they might seem like small gestures but they are some of my fondest memories.

People across the country have been scammed, with swindlers encouraging them to buy good-luck tokens at sky-high prices or to give away their savings.

全国各地都有人被骗，骗子怂恿他们以天价购买好运令牌或放弃他们的积蓄。

That's the Mandarin word for gourd, and a famous good-luck symbol in Asian culture roughly equivalent to the horseshoe in the West.

葫芦是亚洲文化中有名的吉祥物，基本等同于西方的马蹄铁。

Will you for Nigeria and Slovenia or leave it as it is as a good-luck term.

你要重新定位尼日利亚和斯洛文尼亚还是希望他们好运？

Gatorade, a drinks-maker, tweets good-luck messages to star athletes.

饮料生产商佳得乐公司向明星运动员发送祝愿好运的信息。

Taking the opportunity when she went to the kitchen for chilli oil, I put the good-luck dumpling into her bowl.

我趁妻子上厨房去拿辣椒油的工夫，偷偷把大钱饺子拨在她的碗里。

Murakami is now preparing another package for the candidate that will include a good-luck charm from the local Obama Shrine.

村上市长目前正在为奥巴马准备另一份大礼&从小浜神庙求来的好运护身符。

Culturally they were expected to ward off evil spirits or act as good-luck charms for Chinese marriages.

在中国传统文化中，中国结可以用于避邪或者在中国的婚礼上作为吉祥物。

For example, there is no middle-finger hand signal. Or the good-luck signal of fingers crossed.

比如里面没有竖中指的手势。也没有两指交叉的好运手势。

I don't need a good-luck charm.

我不需要带护符了

It had been given to her by a friend as a good-luck gift.

是一位好友送给她，希望为她带来好运。

M: Well, good-luck with banking.

男士：祝你在银行业里工作顺利。

In short, his good-luck charms seem to be working.

简而言之，他的幸运护身符看来起作用了。

Ganley said he'd seen no evidence of widespread fraud

甘利说他没有看见诈骗泛滥的证据。

He was jailed for two years for fraud and deception

他因为诈骗和欺诈入狱服刑两年。

Fraud is an entirely different matter

欺诈完全是另外一回事。

This is a clear case of fraud.

这无疑是一桩诈骗案。

He abused the Admiral in the grossest terms

他用不堪入耳的话辱骂那位海军上将。

I think it would be a gross distortion of reality to say that they were motivated by self-interest

我认为说他们是受自身利益的驱使是对事实的严重歪曲。

I'm a factory worker who grossed £ 12,900 last year

我是个工厂工人，去年的总收入为12,900英镑。

This is a gross oversimplification of the facts.

这显然把事实过分简单化了。