英语释义

• as much as a thimble will hold

片语

farthing(Farthing)人名；(英)法辛

英汉例句

• meteor crater, 40 miles east of flagstaff, is an out-of-this-world site for those with a thimbleful of imagination.

  陨石坑在flagstaff东40公里，对于那些没有太多想象力的人来说是一个世外桃源。

• everyone complained, above all, about the food: french dishes 「stewed in grease」 and breakfasts consisting of nothing more 「than a thimbleful of coffee or chocolate and a morsel of bread.

  几乎人人都抱怨食物----油腻腻的法国炖菜和早餐时少的可怜的一点儿咖啡面包巧克力。

• you don「t catch me tasting rum so much, but just a thimbleful for luck, of course, the first chance i have.

  你可别引诱我喝太多的郎姆酒，不过可以为了祝好运而喝那么一点点，当然，要是有机会的话。

• san diego — here in a laboratory perched on the edge of the continent, researchers are trying to construct life as we don」t know it in a thimbleful of liquid.

  圣迭戈— 坐落在这里一个大陆岬角上的一间实验室里，研究人员正在试图制造“我们所不了解的以一点儿液体形态存在的生命」 * 。

• a small thimbleful of ashes can be made into 0.25 car at diamond, for which lifegem would charge $4,000.

  做一颗0.25克拉的鉆石只需要很少量的骨灰，生命珍宝公司将为此收费4千美元。

• just a thimbleful of sherry, please.

  劳驾，来一点点雪利酒。 %。

• everyone complained, above all, about the food: french dishes 「stewed in grease」 and breakfasts consisting of nothing more 「than a thimbleful of coffee or chocolate and a morsel of bread.」

  亨利?詹姆斯就觉得威尼斯除了「破旧的西洋景和乱七八糟的集市」以外什么都没有；几乎人人都抱怨食物----油腻腻的法国炖菜和早餐时少的可怜的一点儿咖啡面包巧克力。