Your son's a lovely boy , so strong and good-natured.

You were lucky to have a narrow escape.

你能够虎口余生,真是幸运.

The three-month advance has been exhilarating, the expected response following the survival of a near-death experience.

这轮为期三个月的上涨一直是振奋人心, 这是虎口余生后的预期反应.

But the plant falls prey to more than 20 pests and diseases.

不过木薯也并不是完美无缺,有20多种病虫害都对它虎视眈眈.

Happiness will avoid to be appear once sadness stay at our heart like one sentitive dog.

当抑郁像一只虎视眈眈的恶犬,蹲伏在我们的心室时,快乐自然退避三舍了.

It's only a hair off a bull's back to them.

这对他们来说,不过九牛一毛.

The new tax cuts are a drop in the ocean.

新减税额只是九牛一毛.

For him the loss was only a drop in the ocean.

这点损失对他来说,只不过是九牛一毛.

The new tax cuts a drop in the ocean . I'd like to see bigger ones.

新减税额只是九牛一毛. 偶诚望有更大幅度的削减.

Their hints about his behaviour were water off a duck's back.

他们示意他举止不当,如同对牛弹琴.

She read him Byron's poems, and it was casting pearls before swine.

她为他朗诵拜伦的诗, 简直是对牛弹琴.

Never cast your pearls before swine.

不要把珍贵之物送给不识货的人;勿明珠暗投;勿对牛弹琴.

Do not cast your pearls before swine.

不要对牛弹琴.

Cast not your pearls before swine.

莫要对牛弹琴.

Jokes are lost on him.

对他讲笑话是对牛弹琴.

Let poisonous weeds sprout and ghosts and monsters appear. Why be afraid of them?

让那些毒草长嘛,让那些牛鬼蛇神出台嘛,你怕他干什么 呢 ?

Chicken Little could, understandably, claim that the sky is about to fall on our heads.

胆小如鼠的小鸡心理会自然地高呼:天要坍塌下来了.

As a result, he had become the soul of caution.

结果, 他就变得胆小如鼠.

He is a cautious man, indeed a timid one.

他是个谨慎的人, 简直是个胆小如鼠的人.

She despised him for his cowardice.

她因他胆小如鼠而鄙视他.

Sen, in contrast, argues that such conceptions of development are far too narrow.

相反, 森却大声疾呼道:“此一关于发展之概念,实乃鼠目寸光“.