old saw的例句大全

The old saw "clothes maketh the man" is as much of a truism as ever.

“人靠衣装”这句老话仍然是条真理。

An old saw can have a kernel of truth in it.

一句谚语可有一个基本真理的存在.

as the old saw has it, faint heart never won fair lady.

正如古谚所说, 软弱的心无法赢得美人.

If there's any truth in the old saw that London's streets are paved with gold, it's probably because they've been gilded by cash stripped from the pockets of tourists.

据美国有线电视新闻（CNN）报道，古谚语中说伦敦路上铺满黄金，如果这句话有点真实性的话，那就是游客兜里的钱镀上的。

Young and old saw in him an implacable opponent of apartheid.

无论老少都看出他是种族隔离制度的坚决反对者。

But the subtext of that old saw, that beauty is arbitrary, is wrong.

但是, 那句古老谚语的言外之意“美是武断的”是不对的.

that always excites contrarians, who cling to the old saw that stock markets climb walls of worry.

这种状况一直令反向投资者感到兴奋，他们仍然相信股市会攀过担忧的经验之谈。

I had saw your mather before my fourteen years old.

我十四岁以前，就曾见过你的母亲。

When crossing a stretch of forest, they saw a hunchbacked old man standing2 under a tree, catching3 cicadas with a bamboo stick. With each stroke he caught one cicada, just as easily as picking it up at will.

穿过一片树林的时候，他们看到一位驼背老人站在树下，手拿竹竿捕蝉，一粘一只，就像随手拾来一样容易。

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.

当我还只有六岁的时候，在一本描写原始森林的名叫《真实的故事》的书中，看到了一副精彩的插画，画的是一条蟒蛇正在吞食一只大野兽。

One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the uninhabited compartments of the hovel.

有一天早晨，这个蓄意窥探的老婆子看见冉阿让走进这座破屋的一间没有人住的房里去了，觉得他的神气有些特别。

I was12 years old when I last saw baskets of fruits being packed to be sent to Rawalpindi.

我最后一次看见一筐筐水果被装运去拉瓦尔品第是我12岁那年。

I once saw an old white bear attacked by a younger black bear.

我曾经看到一只年轻的黑熊袭击一只老白熊。

like most fathers would be, chris "burr" martin was taken aback when he saw that comment posted in response to one of his 19-year-old daughter cassie's sexy selfies on her instagram account.

和很多父亲一样，当看到自己年方19岁的女儿凯西，在社交网站Instagram所发“性感”自拍照下面的评论时，克里斯·马丁大吃一惊……

4: I know it wasn't polite but I had to laugh when I saw that old geezer with his false teeth eating corn on the cob.

他说：我知道这样不礼貌，但是我看到那老家伙用假牙啃玉米棒子的样子就忍不住要笑。

i closed my eyes and saw my mother, ten years old on the family farm in minnesota, working like a hired hand, raising her younger brothers, wearing the clothes of her older sister, saving dimes to get herself out of there...

我闭上眼睛，看见的我母亲十岁的时候待在明尼苏达的家族农场，如雇佣似的劳动，养育她的弟弟们，穿她姐姐的旧衣裳，存钱让自己离开那里……

Now that the job had been thrust on him he did not propose to relinquish it; and, to guard against the possibility, he saw that he must reassure the unimaginative old man who was the legal conscience of the Mingotts.

既然任务已经交给了他，他就不打算放弃它了，而且，为了防止那种可能，他明白必须让这位代表明戈特一家法律信仰的缺乏想像力的老人放下心来。

It's a magical time for entomologist Dr Jessica Weir, whose 16-year-old daughter wasn't even alive the last time she saw these insects.

对昆虫学家杰西卡·威尔博士来说，这是一个奇妙的时刻，在她上次看到这些昆虫时，她现年16岁的女儿甚至还没出生。

When I arrived, I saw a 2-to 3-week-old owl ．

当我到达时,我看到一只2到3周大的猫头鹰。

I turned around and saw an old beggar.

我转过身,看见一个老乞丐。