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词汇积累 | 'creep in', 悄悄地....

• 2021 年 06 月 01 日 • 翻译·译事随笔

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音标:/'rek(ə)nɪŋ/

英英释义:

①Some-one's reckoning is a calculation they make about something, especially a calculation that is not very exact.【n.(尤指并不十分准确的)预计,估计,估算】

②If you say that you will have a reckoning with someone, you mean that you will face them at some time in the future and punish them for something they have done.【n.报应;清算】

例句:

①By my reckoning we were seven or eight kilometres from Borj Mechaab.

据我估计我们离梅卡巴堡有七八公里远。

②She knew their truce would not last. There would be a reckoning . There would be another fight.

她早知道他们之间的休战持续不了多长时间。他们之间的账迟早要清算。还将会有一场争斗。

《新闻周刊》一篇题为 Arab Spring Reckoning 也出现了这个表达:

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creep in/into/ back

不知不觉地发生[/scode]

英英释义:

If something creeps in or creeps back, it begins to occur or becomes part of something without people realizing or without them wanting it.

例句:

①Insecurity might creep in.

可能会不知不觉地产生不安全感。

②An increasing ratio of mistakes, perhaps induced by tiredness, crept into her game.

可能是由于体力不支,她在比赛中的失误越来越多。

注:creep的过去时是“crept”哦~

Romain Gary的小说 Promise at dawn 也出现了这个表达:

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