查询词典 one's cup of tea

Over a cup of tea or after a meal -- at one's leisure; in leisure moments; at one's sparetime

明·汤显祖《牡丹亭·训女》："从今后茶余饭饱破工夫，玉镜台前插架书。"

Palm monkey brace up in appearing in billow to the word of mortals, in the morning 6: 00 begin to lead child people drill to the tree; 7: 00 ate juice of pineapple of a kilogram of banana, two dock-glass as breakfast. 8: 00 run a newspaper to monkey, this assists Ma Wen's part was done old, already was do something one knows well, on the make tea one cup of Dragon Well tea, a faint scent waves before sending bazoo, carrying cup desire drink, phone 0 your work, monkey king miff: People not of the same clan covets our natural environment, reave me female monkey a certain number of names, spirit away my fruit a certain number of kilogram, you handle affairs adverse, need make amends for one's fault by good deeds, atone for one's crimes by doing, fast fast do!

棕猴抖擞精神出现在滚滚红尘中，早晨6：00开始率领孩儿们到树上操练；7：00吃了一公斤香蕉、两大杯菠萝汁做为早餐。8：00到猴办报到，这个弼马温的角色做了多年，已是轻车熟路，沏上一杯龙井，一股清香飘致鼻前，正端杯欲饮，电话零声大作，猴王微怒：外族觊觎我方水土，抢走我雌猴若干名，偷走我水果若干公斤，你办事不利，需将功补过，戴罪立功，速速办来！

The expression came into use between the First and Second World Wars. In the Victorian age the consumption of tea by all classes had not yet, especially among men, become common. A more likely metaphor then, derived from food or drink for something not to one's taste, would have been, say,'not my pot of beer', or among the well-to-do classes 'not my glass of wine'.

究竟何意？那位仁兄一边打着哈欠一边给我讲英语中 one's cup of tea 表示"the sort of thing one likes"，我又追问这种表达方法是否可以追溯点什么，结果那位仁兄在一种半睡眠的状态中告诉我记住one's cup of tea的意思就行了，不用管什么怎么来的。

His notion of a day's work was to ask a passer-by for tuppence for a cup of tea and, having got the money, produce Thermos, milk and sugar for the astonished benefactor and inquire whether they wanted one lump, or two.

在罗斯的概念里，日常工作就是以买茶为由向路人讨点小钱，得逞之后突然拿出热水瓶、奶和糖，询问一惊一乍的好心人要一块糖还是两块糖。

That's another cup of tea.6. One's cup of tea.

那是另外一回事。

One's cup of tea

某人喜欢的事情。

This one brews a better cup of tea than the last but that's the most you can say.

这一个助手泡的茶比上一个更好，但仅此而已。

It is a state of mindstanding to one's own resolution in such a fickle world so that we can be the master of our destiny, i.e.,"Contenting with a cup of plain tea while others indulging in the best wine".

定&是一种境界，是居于多变之中的不动摇。只有达到这一境界，才能掌握自己的方向，才能做到：&他饮他的花酒，我喝我的清茶。

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

一个人一生能否保持适当的冷静、高度的和谐，可能恰恰取决于他能否在不寻常的时刻喝上一杯茶。

Getting a five minute shot of pure oxygen from the concierge followed by a steaming cup of tea made from leaves of the infamous coca plant is not the ordinary routine for hotel guests coming down for breakfast – but then peru's ancient incan capital of cusco, one of the world's highest cities at over 11 000 ft above sea level, is hardly an ordinary place.

在喝完一杯用劣质可可植物的叶子炮制的热茶后，我快速呼吸着看门人带来的五分钟新鲜氧气，这可不是旅馆客人下来吃早餐的常规——但作为世界上高于海平面1万1千英尺的城市之一，秘鲁古老的印加首都库斯科绝对非比寻常。

I use an example quoted by Hu Jiaqi:"It is reported that America separates the DNA of a kind of virus by making use of genetic technology and combines it with another kind of DNA. Finally, they get a kind of virulent biological agent called a "pyrotoxin". Someone discloses in private that 20 grams of such a kind of biological agent could result in the global death of 6 billion people due to infection."

我在这里例举胡家奇所引用过的例子："据报道，美国利用转基因技术，将一种病毒的DNA分离出来，与另外一种DNA进行结合，拼结成一种剧毒的"热毒素"生物战剂，且私下有人透露，这种生物战剂只需20克，就可以导致全球60亿人全部感染死亡。"

Waiting, for the queers and the coons and the Reds and the Jews.

等待着疯子和黑人还有红色共产主义者还有犹太人