一、明喻【Simile】
1、 用like表示
The Great Wall of China, the longest wall in the world, runs across north China like a huge dragon.    Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.  【John Ruskin】
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen for him to crow.  【George Eliot】
Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out.  【P. M. Quitard】
They will never be able to save money to buy a new house---they both spend money like water.
2、 用as表示
    Every tree and every branch was encrusted with bright and delicate hoarfrost, white and pure, as snow, delicate and defined as carved ivory.    His face was as grey as ashes.
    As the lion is king of beasts, so is the eagle king of birds.
3、 用what表示
    What light is to the eye knowledge is to the mind.   Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.   Judicious praise is to the children what the sun is to flowers.
4、 用the way表示    I should smell it the way a cat smells a mouse.
5、 用might (may) as well…(as)表示
You might as well expect the sun to rise in the west as hope to move me.
You might as well teach a cat to swim as teach him to learn English.
6、 用 (no) more…than / not…any more than表示
A home without love is no more than a body without a soul.
Nations are not to be judged by their size any more than individuals.
7、 用of短语表示
Who might he be, that black pillar of a man?  Her son is shy of persons; he is a girl of a boy.
8、 用as if (though)表示
The first time I read an excellent book, it was to me as if I had gained a new friend.
9、 用and表示   Truth and rose have thorns about them.  Love and a cough cannot be hid.
二、暗喻【Metaphor】
1、 S＋be＋R
Life is a journey.  Experience is the mother of wisdom.  The boy is only skin and bone.
2、 S＋be＋not＋R
Praise is not pudding.  Knowledge is not always a water that washes away vice.
3、 S---R   America---the Melting Pot?  Proverbs in conversation---torches in darkness.
4、 S＋R; /,/  /and/ S＋R
Politeness is required in man; scent is required in a flower.
A mirror is of no use to a blind man, nor knowledge to a man without discernment.
A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk.
5、 No S, no R    No bees, no honey; no work, no money.  No pains, no gains.
6、 只出现R，不出现S
A silver plate is rising up in the sky.  The backbone of the team is over there.
7、 名词1＋of＋名词2   Poor Joe lives in that match-box of a house.
He is young, broad of back, full of vigor, ---really a giant of man.
8、 用动词表示    Waves thundered against the rocks.  水浪猛烈地拍击着岩岸。
三、拟人法【Personification】
1、 把适应于“人”的动词、形容词来叙述、描写“物”
And the sun looked over the mountain’s rim.   Life has cheated her. 
Inflation has robbed him of his savings.
2、 把抽象的概念当作“人”写    He is the flavored child of Fortune. 
Rest, Good Cheer, and Moderate Diet are the three best doctors.
The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare. Outside the rattling windows there was a restless whispering wind. The room grew light and dark, and wondrous light again, as the moon played hide-and seek through the clouds.
3、 把无形的“物”当作“人”写
One day the sun and the wind had a quarrel.  The wind sighed in the treetops.
Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.  【B. Franklin】
Liquor talks mighty loud when it gets loose from the jug.
A lie can travel half away around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. 【Twain】
The twentieth century is only the nineteenth speaking with a slightly American accent.
4、 把有生“物”当作“人”写
The bear said, “Don’t trust those who leave their friends the moment they get into difficulty.”
5、 把适用于“人”的称谓用于“物”，并用人称代词来指代它
China will always do what she has promised to do.
The “Victory” is due in tomorrow, isn’t she?
四、夸张【Hyperbole】
1、 使用数词
She is sitting here, but her mind is a hundred miles away.   I beg you a thousand pardons.
Today’s life is one thousand times better than that of pre-liberation days.
He will leave a bad name for ten thousand years.  We enjoy every minute of the play.
2、 使用形容词和副词的最高级形式
“I’m the happiest man in the world,” he whispered to himself.  It is a most touching story.
3、 使用表示否定意义的词
The confusion was indescribable.  Guilin’s beauty is beyond praise. 
That’s an unlimited expanse of ocean.  We will never parley; we will never negotiate.
4、 使用名词或名词重复
He was confronted with a difficulty of difficulties.   He committed the sin of sins.
5、 使用形容词
The cost mounted to astronomical figures.  He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of China.
6、 使用动词   Blood streams down from his forehead.   Tanks thundered down the road.
7、 使用短语
She shed a flood of tears.  There is a world of differences between these two cities.
8、 借助其他修辞方式的夸张    The news came like a bolt from the blue.
五、曲言【Litotes or Understatement】
1、 轻描淡写 ( 用rather, quite, pretty, almost, a bit代替very )
She’s rather good-looking.  He has written quite a number of novels.  My friend was a bit upset by his son’s death.  She was a little annoyed when she found her valuable vase broken.
2、 用反说代替正说 ( 常用含蓄的否定的方式，常使用no, not, never, none, little, hardly等)
The man is no fool.  He has no small chance of success.  I couldn’t be happier.
His teacher said he wasn’t very bright and that he wasn’t worth teaching.
He conducted the experiment with no little enthusiasm.  Similar mistakes are not uncommon.
3、 弦外之音 ( 婉转说法，用于代替直言不讳)
The beauty of Guilin is more than I can describe.  You should have been here earlier.
六、委婉语【Euphemism】
使用对方比较容易接受的词语或语句，来表达作者或说者真实的认识、态度和感情。
    He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in an armchair, peacefully gone to sleep---but forever.   The girl is hard of hearing. 
She is in the family way.  She is expecting.  Thank you for not picking the flowers.
    And, it being low water, he went out with the tide.  【Charles Dickens】
    If you will allow me, I will call your marriage for you.  【Oscar Wilde】
    The boy used to take things without permission [偷窃] and has just been out of the rehabilitation home [康复中心 (教养所)] in the country.
    I’m afraid she can’t act that part--- she is a little on the plump side. [有些发福]
    He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe, failed in his health and prophesied the speedy ruin of the empire.  【Thackeray: Vanity Fair】
    We have come here to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who have gave their lives that that nation might live. 【Lincoln:  Gettysburg Address】
    ** disabled; handicapped; inconvenienced; auditory-impaired; sight-deprived; feel one’s age.
七、借代【Metonymy】
1、 可以突出事物的特征，增强语言的形象性 
The river is crowded with masts. 河中帆樯林立。
2、 可以使文章简洁明快
Then the surgeon cut me open and took out the appendix.   He is meeting the press now.
3、 可以使语言生动有变化，不死板
Wall Street;  the White House;  Downing Street;  the Pentagon
4、 可以充分抒发作者的感情，鲜明表现作者的立场
Please drink a cup or two.  There is a mixture of the tiger and the ape in the character of a Frenchman.   The kettle is boiling.  The pen is mightier than the sword.  Have you read Dickens and Scott?   Were it not for your help, I should have met my Waterloo.
八、双关【Pun】[谐音双关、语义双关]
1、 利用一词多义现象
--- Why may carpenters reasonably believe there is no such thing as stone?
--- Because they never saw one.
--- Why is a river always rich?  --- Because it always has two banks.
2、 借助成语
--- Why is crow the bravest bird in the world?  --- Because it never shows the white feather.
--- What weather do mice most dislike?  --- When it’s raining cats and dogs.
3、 借助上下文，进行各种联想
A little boy came to his mother. “Ma,” he said, “I have something to tell you. My teacher kissed me.”   “Well, were you a good boy and did you kiss her back?”
“Of course not!” he denied indignantly. “I kissed her face.”
九、轭式搭配法【Zeugma】
是用一个词 (通常V, Adj, Prep) 同时支配或修饰两个或两个以上的名词，但其中只有一个搭配是合乎逻辑的，而另一个搭配是牵强附会，不合逻辑的。
1、 一个动词支配两个名词
At noon Mrs. Turpin got out of bed and humor, put on Kimono, airs, and the water to boil for coffee.  …起床了,也不太高兴；穿上和服，装出气派，放上水壶烧水冲咖啡。
Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave. She possessed two false teeth and a sympathetic heart.
2、 一个形容词修饰两个名词
It is better to have a patched jacket than to have a patched character.
Yesterday he had a blue heart and coat.  They have gone with weeping eyes and hearts.
3、 一个介词与两个名词连用
Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.  She was dressed in a maid’s cap, a pinafore, and a bright smile.
十、反语【Irony】
用一种相反的话来表达自己的意思。常含讥讽、厌恶、不满、责难、威胁等感情色彩
1、 注意整个语言环境的烘托和上下文呼应
“You’re telling stories! But what’s the central point?” said he ironically.
Daniel said, “I told Tom not to do such a silly thing, but he turned a deaf ear to my advice.”
---“Humph! Let him do it!”
2、 所说明的事物必须是大家所熟悉的
Robbing a widow of her savings was certainly a noble act.
“I don’t care about it,” said Tom. “But much I care!” Mary sneered.
The public is wonderfully tolerant--- it forgives everything except genius. 【Wilde】
His designs were strictly honorable; that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Chivalry: going about releasing beautiful maidens from other men’s castle, and taking them to your own castle.   He was such a marvelous teacher that whenever he recognized a spark of genius you could be sure he’d water it. 
3、 可用反诘【rhetorical question】来表示反语
Who can care for her?  Why are you driving so fast? Don’t you know the traffic regulations?
4、 口头上常用特殊的语调表示反语，书面上常用斜体字，黑体字或词语下面加横线表明。
“Do I love him? Who wouldn’t love a cheat, a liar, and a scoundrel?”
十一、递升法【Climax】
运用这种修辞手法，能够使要表达的思想加深，感情逐步强化，因而能够增强语言的说服力和感染力
1、 以程度的深浅，语意的轻重的顺序来排列语句
I am sorry, I am so very sorry, I am so extremely sorry.   I admire her, I love her, I need her.
When we heard the good news, we clapped their hands, sang and danced and jumped for joy.
2、 以范围的大小顺序来排列语句
He wanted to educate his children, serve this country, and satisfy his God.
He gazed upon the pretty houses, green hills and the broad Pacific.
3、 以时间的先后顺序来排列语句   They came, they played, they conquered. 
The prisoner was first questioned, then tortured, and finally shot.
【递降法 Anticlimax】
He lost his empire, his family and his fountain pen.
A woman who could face the very devil…or a mouse--- lose his grip and goes all to piece in front of flash of lightning.  [Mark Twain]
十二、矛盾法【Oxymoron】
1、 形容词＋名词
It is an open secret that the scientist and the nurse are already of one mind.
He is a clever fool.   He lived a life of active idleness.
The mother is undergoing the joyful pain, and the painful joy of childbirth.
2、 形容词＋形容词
They are poor rich guys.  I like sweet-sour pork.  That was one of his bitter-sweet memories.
3、 副词＋形容词
What he said is falsely true.  She looked tall and splendid alone.
“Have you shot the goat and frightened the tiger to death,” said Miss Mebbin, with her disagreeably pleasant laugh.
4、 动词＋副词
At last they hastened slowly. 他们慢慢地快起来。The moon shone darkly. 暗淡地发光。
5、 名词＋名词    They had a love-hate relationship.   That’s a life-and-death struggle. 
【反论 Paradox】
More haste, less speed.  No news is good news.  Once a man and twice a child.
I love him so much that I hate him when he looks at another woman.
十三、设问【Rhetorical Question】
是一种无疑而问，或胸中早有主见而故意设问
1、 激问
**If this belief from Heaven be sent,   如果这个信仰是上天赐予的，
If such be Nature’s only plan,       如果自然界的神圣计划就是如此，
Have I not reason to lament        难道我没有理由悲叹
What man has made of man?       人把人变成了什么啊？  【Wordsworth】
** There are no speeches; for who can speak at such a moment?
What would have happened if she had never lost those jewels? Who knows? 【Maupassant】
2、 设问
What business is it of yours?  You mind your own affairs.  【B. Shaw】
Where has it gone?  It has been turned into water by heat.
十四、移位法【Transferred Epithet】
将描写甲事物性状的词语移来描写乙事物的性状
1、 形容词由人转移到指物，即从具有某种特性的人转到与这种特性相关的物
The enemy fled in a blind haste.  Roosevelt listened with bright-eyed, smiling attention.
** a happy day; sleepy language; drunken prophecies; a smiling reply; a wise choice; cold facts; trembling terror; blood money; angry brow [怒容]; a fiery temper; nervous hours
2、 形容词由指物转移到指人
He is a straightforward person.  My father is a solemn scholar of physics.
十五、排比【Parallelism】
1、单词平行
Civilized man arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers and the Bible.
An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.  【O’ Malley】
2、短语平行
   Studies serve for delight, for ornament, for ability.  【Francis Bacon】
   We can gain knowledge, by reading, by reflection, by observation or by practice.
   Read not to contradict and confuse; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.  【Francis Bacon】
   Their powers of conversation were considerable. They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humor, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.
3、 从句平行
They vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and failure and a foolishness; where they left no sign that they had existed.
4、句子平行
   We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity.
   A woman’s whole life is a history of affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. 【Washington Irving】
   We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air.
   The world listens. The world watches. The world waits to see what we will do.
   I am very fond of the company of ladies: I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.   【S. Johnson】
   No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.  【Herbert Spencer】
十六、平行对照 [对偶]【Antithesis】
1、 单词   Knowledge make humble, ignorance make proud.
2、 短语   One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
3、 从句   The world will little now note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
4、 句子
Money is a good servant but a bad master.   Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.  
Short accounts make long friends.  The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
*An optimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; a pessimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Ask not what your country can do for you---ask what you can do for your country.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
If the economy stays down, can conservatives stay up?
*We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling raucous discord on earth.
*If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
*I take thee to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish, till death do we part, according to God’s holy ordinance, and thereto I plight thee my troth.
十七、对照【Contrast】
   Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. 【J. F. Kennedy】
   They are wonderful when they are good, he thought. There is no people like them when they are good and when they go bad there is on people that is worse.  【E. Hemingway】
   To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 【Washington】
   Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.  【Oscar Wilde】
   Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seems to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?  【William M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair】
   A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain.  【Robert Frost】
   The church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. 【Ingersoll】
十八、反复【Repetition】
1、 连续反复
There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later, namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.  【Thomas Hood】
Scrooge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over again.
*Arise, arise, arise!                          起来，起来啊！起来！
 There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread;  不为你们生产粮食的土地出现了鲜血；
 Be ye wounds like eyes,                     让你们的伤口都化为眼睛，
 To weep for the dead, the dead, the dead.        哭泣那些死去的，死去的，死去的。
2、 间隔反复
【首语重复 Anaphora】
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.  【Malcolm X】
*Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow!
 Farewell to the straths and green valleys below!
 Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods!   【Robert Burns:】
 Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods!    【My Heart’s in the Highlands】
No great general ever arose out of a nation of cowards; no great statesman or philosopher out of a nation of fools; no great artist out of a nation of materialists; no great dramatist except when the drama was the passion of the people. 【James A. Froude: the History of England】
   【尾语重复 Epistrophe】
And will you, will you, I will marry you.  【W. Shakespeare】
O youth! The strength of it! The faith of it, the imagination of it!  【Joseph Conrad】
   【首尾反复＋首尾反复】
Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong.
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, confusion worse confounded.
Nothing can come of nothing.   Blood must atone for blood.
   【逆转反复 Antistophe】
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky  Lay a load on my weary eye.
It was the same everywhere, crime and betrayal, betrayal and crime.  【Jack London】
When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
The soldier faces the powder while the beauty powders the face.
十九、仿拟【Parody】
这是一种巧妙、机智、而有趣的修辞格。它有意仿照人们熟知的现成的语言材料，根据表达的需要临时创造出新的语、句、篇来，以使语言生动活泼，或讽刺嘲弄，或幽默诙谐，妙趣昂然。在运用时所仿拟的一般是人们所熟知的语言材料，如成语、谚语、明言、警句。
1、I had no outlook, but an uplook rather. My place in society was at the bottom.
                                   【Jack London: What Life Means to Me】
2、Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. 【Oscar Wilde】  [the survival of the fittest]  
现代的新闻工作，以“最庸俗者生存”的伟大的达尔文式的原则来为自己的存在辩护。
3、Where there is a will, there is a lawsuit.  有遗嘱必有官司。
4、Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! 小小蝙蝠眨眼睛， 
How I wonder what you’re at! 你在干嘛我说不清，  
Up above the world you fly! 高高在上把翅展，  
Like a teatray in the sky! 好似空中一茶盘。
5、To eat is human; to digest, divine. 【Mark Twain】[To err is human; to forgive, divine]
6、One nonlinguistic explanation of failure at school is that you can take a child to Euclid but you can’t make him think.    7、Red Star Over Hongkong.  【Times, July14, 1997】
8、Let us have faith that right makes might and dare to do our duty as we understand it.
   【Abraham Lincoln】 让我们相信公理即强权，明白职责就要敢于尽职。
9、To Lie Or Not To Lie--- The Doctor’s Dilemma
【To be, or not to be: that is the question.  Hamlet】
10、“I won’t have Ralph upset. After all,” she grinned, “a husband in hand is worth two in bush.”  [A bird in hand is worth two in bush.]
11、A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
12、Socialism places the human being at the center of things, not the machine, not the Almighty Dollars, not the maximum profits of billionaires.  [the Almighty God]
13、He intended to take an opportunity this afternoon of speaking to Irene. A word in time saves nine…【John Galsworthy】 [A stitch in time saves nine.]
14、Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today. 【Josh Billings】
15、---“I was brought up rich.”  ---“Yeah,” I said, “You were born with a Cadillac in your mouth.”     [to be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth]
20、引喻【Allusion】
适当运用它可做到事出有典，言之有据，使表达简洁、凝练、精辟、生动。
1、What will it be when the increase of yearly production is brought to a complete stop? Here is the vulnerable place, the heel of Achilles, for a capitalistic production. [致命的弱点]
2、Book is a vehicle of learning and enlightenment, an open sesame to countless joys and sorrow.  [《天方夜谈》秘诀、关键]
3、Research, from being the Cinderella of industry, would become its favored child.
4、Their new constitution was a fig leaf to conceal their betrayal of the masses. [无花果叶]
5、The ignorant simply preached that Negroes were not human and not the “child of God.”
6、“You want your pound of flesh, don’t you?”  [Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English]
7、The candidate met his waterloo in the national elections. 
8、Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.  谁能做自己灵魂的哥伦布，谁就是幸福。
21、拟声法【Onomatopoeia】
1、 模拟人声
murmur (咕哝),  whisper (耳语声),  giggle (咯咯笑声),  hum (哼),  ouch (哎呀),  hush (嘘),  chuckle (抿着嘴轻声地笑),  mutter (轻声低语),  en (嗯),  hi (喂),  chatter (唠叨),  whoop (喘气声),  babble (胡言乱语, 含糊不清地说)
2、 模拟家禽与飞鸟声
cock---crow,  hen—cackle,  chicken---cheep,  duck---quack,  goose---cackle,  dove---coo,  magpie---chatter,  parrot---squawk,  nightingale---jug.
3、 模拟兽类声
ass---bray,  pig---grunt,  sheep---baa,  horse---neigh,  lion---roar,  cow---moo,  dog---bark,  fox---yelp,  monkey---jabber,  mouse---peep,  tiger---growl,  cat---mew,  elephant---trumpet,  wolf---bowl
4、 模拟昆虫及其他动物声音
bee---buzz,  mosquito---hum,  cicada---chirp,  snake---hiss,  cricket---chirp,  frog---croak
5、 模拟机器、器具声音
click 喀嚓 (剪刀, 门, 按钮),  clack 铿锵 (刀叉, 碗碟, 机器),  clink 叮叮 (金属, 玻璃), 
clank 叮当 (铁链, 刀枪),  clang 发出铿锵声 (叮当声),  rumble 轰隆声 (雷, 风, 炮, 车), 
toot 嘟嘟 (火车, 汽车, 轮船),  ticktack 嘀嗒 (钟表) 
   On the way through the mountains to school, we can see the babbling water in the brook, hear the frogs croaking, cuckoo cuckooing, birds singing, sparrows chirping in the forest. All are lovely.    My heart is banging in my ears.  在我耳中响着砰砰的心跳声。
   When Miss Martha was reaching for bread there was a great tooting, a clanging, and a fire engine came rumbling past.    The angry husband shut the door with a bang.
   The drunken driver drove bang into the store window.  醉醺醺的司机开车砰地撞近商店的橱窗。
   “Bang! Bang!” shouted the boys in imitation of gunfire.
   Presently Ben Rogers came in sight. He was eating an apple, giving a long melodious whoop at intervals, followed by a deep-toned [低沉的] ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. 
   The ticking of the clock was the only sound that greeted him, for not a soul remained.【Hardy】
   The metal tool clanged when it hit the wall.    During his fever he babbled without stopping.
   He babbled the secret out to his friends. 他向朋友们胡乱说话，泄漏了秘密。
   He burbled on/ away (talked) for hours.   The baby babbled (away/ on) for hours.
22、头韵【Alliteration】
    它指的是在一组词、一句话或一行诗里，有意反复使用起首字母或首声韵相同的词。
1、 用于诗歌
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,  和风吹荡、水花飞溅，
The furrow followed free;               船儿破浪前进，
We were the first that ever burst          闯入那沉寂的海洋领域，
Into that silent sea.                    我们是第一群人。【S. T. Coleridge】
2、 用于散文
Next to health, heart, home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the automobile.
对于好动的美国人来说，幸福不仅取决于健康、爱情、舒适和温暖的家，还取决于汽车。
The world believes in the wonder worker, not the words of wisdom.  【Richard Jefferson】
The flaks were falling thick and hard now, pouring past the window, a waterfall of mystery.
3、 用于谚语或习语
Money makes the mare go.   A fair face may hide a foul heart.  Dumb dogs are dangerous.
Willful waste makes woeful want.  肆意挥霍，家徒四壁。  safe and sound
tit for tat 针锋相对   with might and main 尽全力   neither fish, flesh, nor fowl 不伦不类
4、 用于各类广告    Vitamins for Vim and Vigor  摄取活力和精力的各种维生素
Cut Costs without Cutting Corners  减少花费而不必节省 [cut corners 抄近路；以经济的方式做事]
Sea, sun, sand, seclusion---and Spain  海滨、阳光、沙滩、幽静――更有西班牙风情
5、 用于书名或报刊文章标题
Pride and Prejudice;  Sense and Sensibility;  The Wind of War
Pei’s Pyramids Puzzle Paris (Time)  贝氏的金字塔使巴黎困惑
Jazzy in Jeans, Sassy in Sweater (Life)  穿上牛仔裤，活泼利索；套上羊毛衫，潇洒俊俏
Starlight on Skyline, Galaxy of Glamour (National Geographic)
  高楼摩天，星光灿烂；火树银花，瑰丽绝伦
6、 绕口令 [tongue twister]
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.