煞費心計 的英文怎麼說
中文拼音 [shābìxīnjì]
煞費心計
英文
beat [cudgel; puzzle; rack] one's brains-
In the next place, i had no hops to make it keep, no yeast to make it work, no copper or kettle to make it boil ; and yet all these things, notwithstanding, i verily believe, had not these things interven d, i mean the frights and terrors i was in about the savages, i had undertaken it, and perhaps brought it to pass too ; for i seldom gave any thing over without accomplishing it, when i once had it in my head enough to begin it
可是,我總感到,由於受到那些野蠻的食人生番的驚嚇,因而時時為自己的安全而擔驚受怕。以往,為使自己的生活過得舒服,我充分發揮了創造發明的才能,但現在就無法充分發揮了。我本來有一個煞費苦心的計劃,想試驗一下能否把大麥製成麥芽,再用麥芽來釀起酒。
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