英语释义

• widely known and spoken of;

  "her proverbial lateness"

  "the proverbial absentiminded professor"

  "your proverbial dizzy blonde"

• of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb;

  "he kicked the proverbial bucket"

  "the proverbial grasshopper"

片语

well-known着名的；众所周知的；清楚明白的

The proverbial有口皆碑

proverbial a公认的

proverbial structure谚语结构

proverbial metaphor谚语型隐喻

Proverbial Dialect主要方言

proverbial types谚语类型

Proverbial Reggae唱片名

confessed坦白；承认（confess 的过去式和过去分词）

proverbial information explosion俗话所说的信息爆炸

proverbial bag公认的理论

英汉例句

• i「m the proverbial fly on the wall -- but i」m also someone who has found that conformity, and lack of curiosity, and uninformed assumptions about other cultures can be toxic.

  我是谚语中说的「墻上的苍蝇」——但是我发现了从众、缺乏好奇心、无知臆断地对待另一种文化的有害性。

• that means that the authorities in japan and the us may have something else in common – limited policy traction and the related frustration of pushing on that proverbial string.

  这意味着美国和日本政府可能还有其他共同点——有限的政策牵引力以及推动那根众所周知的绳子时的绝望感。

• sometimes all you need in order to lift yourself out of the proverbial dumps is a plan of attack.

  为了使自己跳出众所周知的沮丧，有时候，所有你需要的是一个主动进攻的计划。

• the park as the proverbial candy shop

  众所周知的糖果店：公园

• but the good side of the rate-raising story is that china and india will have proverbial bullets in the monetary-policy chamber if and when things really go south in europe.

  但加息也有好的一面：如果欧洲形势真的恶化，到时候中国和印度的货币政策弹匣里将有一些众所周知的子弹供它们使用。

• soon they found themselves in a proverbial 「the dog ate my homework」 situation. three days before a presentation was due, mr. de lombaert accidentally deleted the computer code he was tinkering with.

  但是，很快他们发现他们处在了一个非常郁闷的境地，就如那句谚语「狗吃掉了我的作业」所说：在程序规定完成的前三天，delombaert先生在修改代码时意外地删掉了所有的程序。

• so whatever damage this episode does to bp as a company, it will be a drop in the proverbial bucket (or barrel), as opposed to some sort of industry game-changer like three mile island.

  所以无论此次事故对英国石油这样的公司有何种损失，相比起一些业界博弈，如三哩岛巨变，只是谚语中的鸿毛。

• thus 「una obra vale millares de gracias」 (perez, afor. i. 198) has the same proverbial ring.

  因此，「unaobravalemillaresdegracias」（佩雷斯，afor，i.198）具有相同的谚语氛围。

• as a result, a new generation of pancake people have essentially become the proverbial jacks of all trades, but masters of none.

  由此，新一代的「煎饼人」就真的成谚语里说的「门门通，门门松」了。

• i’m too far down the proverbial rabbit hole to be able to turn back, so part of me knows this is a permanent shift of some sort.

  我已经沿着众所周知的路越走越远，直至难以回头，部分自我告诉自己这只是某种程度上的永久性转移。

• it「s folk wisdom that people fidget, touch their noses, stutter, and break eye contact when they lie - the proverbial 「shifty-eyed」 look. but research has shown that just isn」t so.

  民间传说人们说谎时会坐立不安、摸自己的鼻子、说话结巴以及移开眼神接触——即众所周知的目光「躲躲闪闪」，但研究显示并不如此。

• theories about foraging say that animals should stick with the proverbial bird in the hand, especially when it comes to food.

  觅食理论告诉我们，动物会贯彻所谓的「一鸟在手胜于双鸟在林」这种谚语，面对食物时更是坚定不移。

• in this country, we kind of jump from the proverbial fry pan into the fire without thinking about the alternative, ” birnbaum said.

  「在这个国家，我们多少有点像谚语说的那样刚逃出虎口又入狼窝，而不想想其他替代办法，」伯恩鲍姆说道。

• you can easily modify simplenode.dump() to emit the value of m_text for any node that「s stored it during a parse -- i」ll leave that as a proverbial exercise for you.

  可以很容易地修改simplenode.dump() ，以提供任何节点的 m_text值供其在解析期间存储 ―我把这作为一个众所周知的练习留给您来完成。

• before you throw this letter into the proverbial round file, let’s be clear: this is the first time i have ever asked for a bailout from the federal reserve.

  在你们把我这封谚语般的信揉成团儿当垃圾扔之前，请搞清楚一件事：这是我第一次向美联储求援。

• tools should make it easier to follow the process rather than to deviate from it, acting as the proverbial 「carrot」 to encourage compliance, rather than as the 「stick.」

  工具应该令过程的遵守更容易，而不是背离过程，作为谚语的「胡萝卜」鼓励遵守，而不是作为「棍棒」。

• she discovered behavior more worthy of aesop’s grasshopper than the proverbial industrious ants.

  在分析过三百小时蚂蚁活动的录像之后，多恩豪斯博士发现，这些出名勤劳的蚂蚁们行为并不比伊索笔下的草蜢更有价值。

• the old security model was for it to build a big mote around the corporate network and only let trusted, authorized employees come across the well-guarded drawbridge and into the proverbial castle.

  it旧的安全模型是在企业网络周围建立一刻巨大的微尘，只让受信任的、已授权的员工穿越守卫严密的吊桥墻进入众所周知的城堡。

• like the proverbial canary in a coal mine, the nearly 10, 000 known bird species act as 「environmental barometers」 whose populations can appraise the greater well-being of their habitats.

  就如谚语所说煤矿里的金丝雀一样，近10，000种已知的鸟类在自然界中扮演着「晴雨表」的角色，它们的数量可以用来评价其栖息地的健康情况。

• the risk for incumbent firms is that of the proverbial boiling frog. they may not know when to switch from old to new until it is too late.

  相关企业面临的危机，如同谚语沸水煮蛙所述，他们不懂推陈出新，一旦意识到时，却为时已晚。

• over-thinking our situation and comparing ourselves to others becomes our default mode of thinking, we are like the proverbial hamster on a wheel unable to perceive the good we are living.

  对自己的评估和与他人的竞争成为默认的思维方式，我们就像谚语上所说的轮子上的仓鼠，不能发现生活的美好。

• my question is, why do i have to hold a proverbial gun to a company’s head before i get a decent level of service.

  但是，我的问题是，为什么要得到本来应得的一种服务，就非得拿把「枪」顶在他们的脑袋上才行呢？

• don't talk about your part-time business to other employees around the proverbial water-cooler.

  不要在众所周知的水冷却器周围与其他雇员谈论你的兼职。