expressions

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

今天时髦话往往变成明天陈词滥调。

In this dictionary we often gloss difficult expressions with an explanation in brackets.

在这本词典里我常常用括号内解释来注解难懂词。

Tommy immediately put on his sucky expression.

汤米立即摆出了那副奴颜婢膝表。

He had a somber expression on his face.

面容忧郁。

'To pull a face' is an idiomatic expression.

'To pull a face'──'愁眉苦脸'习惯表达法。

Her face had an expression of absolute serenity.

她脸上带着极为平静表。

There was a tranquil expression on his face.

脸上有种安祥自若表。

They greeted him with many expressions of pleasure.

说了许多表示欢迎话。

He has a passive expression on his face.

脸上有种漠然表。

Belinda's face took on a mulish expression.

贝琳达脸上显露出倔强神。

Modernism was the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity.

现代主义现代经验典型表现。

In our reading we should always be alert for idiomatic expressions.

我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.

被责骂孩子哀怜地、悲伤地看着她父亲。

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

脸上表不用说也很清楚——讨厌这部电影。

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

文字最初形态——象形文字图形。

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

儿子毫无表使父亲怀疑否在专心听。

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

在查特雷斯大教堂中世纪时期宗教热表现之。

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

可说"相对封闭性系统,"不可说"相对开放性系统。"

I didn’t trust his shifty expression.

贼眉鼠眼, 我不信任。

She always has a sleepy expression.

她总副懒洋洋表。