a phrase with a double meaning
例句
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Because of the housing shortage, many couples had to double up in one tiny apartment.
由于住房紧张, 许多对夫妻只好挤在一栋公寓里。
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We shall have to double up the sheets to get them in the drawer.
我们得把这些被单折叠起来才能放进抽屉里。
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After he double-crossed his best friend, everyone gave him the cold shoulder.
在他出卖了最好的朋友后,每个人待他十分冷淡。
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The company is caught in a double bind. If it doesn’t modernize it won’t make money, but if it does modernize they’ll have to make people redundant because they won’t need them any more.
这家公司进退两难。不实行现代化就无法盈利,要实行现代化就会有冗员,因为公司将不再需要他们。
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I picked out the meaning of the passage.
我领会了这段文章的含义。
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The poem is so complicated that I cannot make out its meaning.
这首诗太复杂, 我理解不了它的意思。
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I spoke slowly but I can't get my meaning across.
尽管我说得很慢, 但我的意思仍不被人理解。
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He spoke for a long time but his meaning did not come across.
他讲了很久, 但没把意思讲明白。
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At (long) last he knew the meaning of life.
终于, 他知道了生命的意义。
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Double rhythms, resounding through the lyric depiction and connecting with each other, indicate the thespian place of mankind and the cognition of the writer to this thespian place.
这双重旋律互为表里,表明了人类的某种悲剧性处境以及作家对这种悲剧性处境的感受和认识。