片语

A Grain of WheatA Grain of Wheat is a novel by Kenyan novelist Ng?g? wa Thiong' The novel weaves several stories together during the state of emergency in Kenya's struggle for independence (1952–1959), focusing on the quiet Mugo, whose life is ruled by a dark secret.

a grain of rice一粒米

a grain of seed一颗种子

a grain of sense稍有点意思

A Grain Of Meteor一粒流星

a single grain of mineral单颗粒矿物

a grain of folly有点愚蠢

A grain of dust一粒尘埃

a grain of sand一粒沙子

英汉例句

• This is why you should take the advice of one person with a grain of salt.

  这就是为什么你要带着怀疑的态度去接受一个人的意见的原因。

• Tiny glass tubes, about half the width of a grain of rice, are carefully placed in the deep brain of an anaesthetized mouse.

  很多极微小的玻璃管，大概是一粒米宽度的一半，被小心翼翼的置入一个被麻醉小鼠的大脑深部。

• 「Sometimes more than a thousand, 」 he wrote, 「in anamount of material the size of a grain of sand.」

  他写道，「有时一粒沙子大小的样本中就有超过一千的微生物。」

• These Numbers must be taken with a grain of salt, because they only represent the time the process spent on the CPU, not the real time it took to execute (also known as the wall clock time).

  但是不能完全相信这些数值，因为它们仅表示进程耗费在CPU上的时间，而不是其真正的执行时间(也称为时钟时间)。

• The old joke that there is nothing so permanent as a temporary migrant has more than a grain of truth in it.

  有一个老笑话说「没有什么比这些临时工人更永久的了」，现在这已经不止是一个笑话了。

• Of course, we have to take this study with a grain of salt. No doubt the researchers were simply listing some of the contributing factors to what they see as a disturbing uptick in rickets diagnoses.

  当然，我们还得辩证的看待这一研究结果，因为那些研究者们只是将一些可能导致软骨病发病率上升的因素列出来罢了。

• We also do not take for granted the optimization of code by design and we take it with a grain of salt every time somebody tells us how good JVMs are now at optimization and garbage collection.

  我们并不认为仅仅通过设计就能得到优化的代码，每当有人说起现在的JVM在优化和垃圾收集方面有多么棒时，我们都对其持保留态度。

• Much of the criticism we get in our life is meant to either help us or keep us safe; take 「bad」 or angry critiques with a grain of salt and do your best to integrate their Suggestions.

  很多批评的存在只是为了帮助我们或者让我们安全。就建设性地听取那些逆耳的、生气的批评，尽自己最大努力整合他们的建议吧。

• What about taking things with a grain of salt?

  那么takethingswitha grain ofsalt又是怎么来的？

• Other academics are less dismissive, but agree that the findings should be taken with a grain of salt.

  其他学者则没有如此轻视，虽然他们也同意对其发现应抱有怀疑态度。

• A vet can inject an RFID, or radio frequency identification, tag about the size of a grain of rice into an animal in seconds.

  兽医可以在几秒钟之内把一个米粒大小的无线射频识别标签(RFID)注入到动物体内。

• Cultured pearls don’t have at their core a grain of sand, but instead arelittle plastic or glass beads or something that pearl farmers stick into theoyster for a year or so.

  对于人工养殖的珍珠而言，它们的核心并不是沙粒，而是像小塑料珠或小玻璃珠之类的物体。珍珠养殖者把这些小东西塞到牡蛎中，然后等上一年左右的时间。

• Batteries that are the size of a grain of salt — or smaller — could power sensors that detect viruses, chemicals and more, said Philip Collins, a scientists at the University of California, Irvine.

  加州大学欧文分校的的科学家菲利普·科林斯说，尺寸如盐颗粒大小的电池能够给传感器提供动力，为那些用于检测病毒和化学物质等传感器提供动力。

• By the time a grain of sand washes up on a beach in Florida, it has been battered by waves for a long time.

  当一粒沙子被沖刷到福罗里达州的沙滩上的时候，她已经被海浪沖刷了很长时间。

• It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth.

  好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小。

• The old wives「 tale that a woman loses one tooth for every child she delivers may, in fact, contain a grain of truth.

  女人每生一个孩子就掉一颗牙这种无稽之谈事实上可能包含一点点真理。

• But there are at least two reasons to take sanguine assessments of the consequences of climate change with a grain of salt.

  但是至少有两个原因使我们对乐观看待气候变化的后果持保留态度。

• On my last holiday in the Bahamas, as I walked along the beach feeling the gentle waves wash over my feet, I felt part of the universe, even if only a minuscule one, like a grain of sand on the beach.

  在巴哈马最后一次度假的时候，当我沿着海滩散步的时候，温柔的海水拂过我的脚时，我感觉到我与宇宙融为了一体。尽管只是如海滩上的一粒沙子那样渺小的一部分。

• Some comments are so 「interesting」 it’s best to say nothing at all; we trust savvy travelers will take them with a grain of salt.

  有些评论太「有趣」，所以最好什么都不说；我们相信精明的旅行者对这一类评论都是持保留态度的。

• And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

  主说，你们若有信心像一粒芥菜种，就是对这棵桑树说，你要拔起根来栽在海里，他也必听从你们。

• Given that there is no universal standard for how to measure these statistics, any of these Numbers from any service have to be taken with a grain of salt.

  由于没有统一的标準来衡量评估这些统计数字，来自任何服务商的这些数字都不能不加分析轻易相信。

• As with all Apple rumors, take this with a grain of salt until the company itself announces something concrete.

  与对所有有关苹果的谣言一样，在该公司自己发布实质性的新闻之前，我们只能持保留态度。

• Too many questions. Perhaps the report is correct, but take it with a grain of salt.

  疑问太多了，也许上面的报道有几分可信，但我们现在还是持点怀疑态度为好。

• The prototype works thanks to a camera the size of a grain of rice which is put into the glasses frame and connected via a wire to a small computer which can be attached to the user」s body.

  眼镜镜框上装有一个米粒般大小的摄像机，由电线连接至配戴者随身携带的小型计算机。

• Such extreme cases must probably be taken with a grain of salt, but they do underline the general principle that the relationship between elephant and mahout is the key to successful training.

  这种极端的事例虽不可全信，但强调了一项基本原则，象和驯象员之间的关系是驯象成功与否的关健。

• As these rise, they latch on to dust in the air and become particulates, a quarter the size of a grain of sand.

  上升过程中，这些元素附着在空气中的尘埃上，变成微粒，大小相当于一粒砂子的四分之一。

• Sometimes it「s just someone having a bad day, but many times there」s at least a grain of truth in the criticism.

  有时候，批判可能仅仅是因为有些人那天过得不顺，但很多时候，在批判中总是存在一些事实。