獅子大開口 的英文怎麼說
中文拼音 [shīzidàkāikǒu]
獅子大開口
英文
open one's mouth wide; demand an exorbitant price-
Albert had already made seven or eight similar excursions to the colosseum, while his less favored companion trod for the first time in his life the classic ground forming the monument of flavius vespasian ; and, to his credit be it spoken, his mind, even amid the glib loquacity of the guides, was duly and deeply touched with awe and enthusiastic admiration of all he saw ; and certainly no adequate notion of these stupendous ruins can be formed save by such as have visited them, and more especially by moonlight, at which time the vast proportions of the building appear twice as large when viewed by the mysterious beams of a southern moonlit sky, whose rays are sufficiently clear and vivid to light the horizon with a glow equal to the soft twilight of an eastern clime
弗蘭茲已經到斗獸場來夜遊過十多次了,而他的同伴卻是第一次光顧維斯派森大帝的這個古跡,平心而論,雖然那兩個向導口若懸河地在他的耳邊喋喋不休,他的腦子里還是留下了很強烈的印象。事實上,要不是親眼目睹,誰都想象不到一個廢墟竟會這樣莊嚴宏偉,歐洲南部的月光和東方的落日余輝有著異曲同工之妙,在這種神秘的月光之下,廢墟的各部分看來似乎都擴大了一倍。弗蘭茲在廢墟的內廊底下走了一百步左右,懷古之情便油然而生,於是他離開了阿爾貝,反正那兩個向導總會照他們的老規矩,領他去看關獅子的洞,斗猩力士的休息室和凱撒大帝的包廂的。Fancy their asking 5000 for a small house like that ! it ' s daylight robbery
想想看,像那樣一幢小房子他們竟要價5000英鎊,簡直是獅子大開口!A generous attitude by one country to requests for antidumping action triggers a similar attitude in countries that become subject to new duties
如果一個國家在反傾銷方面獅子大開口,那麼被它認定具有傾銷行為的國家也會以其人之道還之。
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