查询词典 herrings

" Eventually, one of the oldest of the herrings swam up to him and said,"Listen, if you don't spawn with us, some herrings eggs will go unfertilized and will not turn into healthy young herrings.

" 最后，一条年长的青鱼游到他面前，说："听着，如果你不和我们一起产卵的话，有些青鱼卵就不能受精，就不能孵出健康的小青鱼。

There was no response forthcoming to the suggestion however, such as it was, Stephen's mind's eye being too busily engaged in repicturing his family hearth the last time he saw it with his sister Dilly sitting by the ingle, her hair hanging down, waiting for some weak Trinidad shell cocoa that was in the sootcoated kettle to be done so that she and he could drink it with the oatmealwater for milk after the Friday herrings they had eaten at two a penny with an egg apiece for Maggy, Boody and Katey, the cat meanwhile under the mangle devouring a mess of eggshells and charred fish heads and bones on a square of brown paper, in accordance with the third precept of the church to fast and abstain on the days commanded, it being quarter tense or if not, ember days or something like that.

33然而，他这建议并没有得到回应。这是由于斯蒂芬正忙于在心目中重温他最后一次与家人团聚的景象。披长发的迪丽坐在炉边等候着巴满煤烟的壶里那稀薄的特立尼达可可豆煮沸，好和代替牛奶的燕麦水一道喝。那是星期五，他们刚吃完一便士两条的鲱鱼，另外让玛吉、布律和凯蒂每人都各吃了一个鸡蛋。那天正赶上四季大斋或是什么日子，根据教会在指定的日子守斋并节制的第三戒律，猫儿也正在轧液机底下吞食着一方块褐色纸上的那簇蛋壳和鱼头鱼骨。

DH is known for throwing red herrings, what good mystery doesn't have them?

DH很善于转移观众的注意力，有什么样人是神秘的呢？

The hoy went to London every week, loaded with mackerel and herrings, and returned loaded with company.

大货驳每周都满载着鲭鱼鲱鱼前往伦敦，又带着一船客人回来。

You see how I am to politics. Wheat and meat are the red herrings across the track.

你知道我对政治是多么外行，小麦和肉类问题引开了我的注意力。

But threatening to scupper a climate deal on the question of government-to-government aid is making red lines out of red herrings.

但是，以政府对政府援助的问题为由，发出阻碍气候协定的威胁，就有点借题发挥，把谈判引上歧途了。

During the day, after a gale of lightning and thunders, it was actually raining herrings in a port called Great Yarmouth in eastern England.

那天，一阵电闪雷鸣之后，英格兰东部的大雅茅斯渔港竟然下起了鲱鱼。

It's hard to find agreement on the origin of these terms, but there's a description comes from Robert Claiborne's Loose Cannons and Red Herrings—A Book of Lost Metaphors.

关于这两个术语的来源还没有统一的说法，但是罗伯特·克莱伯恩德的《不精确的大炮和熏青鱼：失传比喻之书》一书中有比较不错的说法。

Type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings .

鲱科的一个模式属；典型鲱。

And one time he led him the rounds of Dublin and, by the holy farmer, he never cried crack till he brought him home as drunk as a boiled owl and he said he did it to teach him the evils of alcohol and by herrings, if the three women didn't near roast him, it's a queer story, the old one, Bloom's wife and Mrs O'Dowd that kept the hotel.

凭着神圣的乡巴佬发誓，布卢姆连一句也没唠叨，直到那家伙醉得像一只炖熟的猫头鹰，这才把他带回来。他说他这么做是为了教给那个侄子酗酒的害处。那个老太婆、布卢姆的老婆和旅店老板娘奥多德太太这三位妇人居然没差点儿把他整个儿烤了，也够不寻常的了。

I want to be a big fish in a small pond.

我要做一条在小池塘里的大鱼。

While the software functioned well, we did not feel the same about their customer support!

虽然该软件运行良好，我们没有同样的感觉他们的客户支持！