1 | "Thanks," he said feebly. | |
2 | Dialects are already slowly dying in Singapore. | |
3 | The old man has been ill for half a year and is about to breathe his last. | |
4 | The dying man panted out his last wishes. | |
5 | 只有逼到柳暗花明、穷途末路、气息奄奄的时候才:起来!
Only when coming to the end of resources and having no way out, people would: Rise! | |
6 | 他气息奄奄地目击浩海的疯狂,而这种疯狂已把他置于绝地了。
He witnesses, amid his death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. | |
7 | 死神无法逼你气息奄奄,你将永生于不朽诗篇。只要人能呼吸眼不盲,这诗和你将千秋流芳。
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. | |
8 | 丁勤时先生在他任内,无数次宣布政绩辉煌如日中天,现在市政厅里却似乎是日薄西山气息奄奄了。
Mr. Dinkins has declared high noon so many times in his administration that by now it seems like four o'clock at City Hall. | |
9 | 那是想像力的疯狂的盛筵,在一个垂死的人的头脑里祝酒,垂死者气息奄奄地哭泣着,衰微不去的心脏却仍然狂跳。
It was a mad orgy of imagination, wassailing in the skull of a dying man who half sobbed under his breath and was quick with the wild flutter of fading heart-beats. | |
10 | 我们把我们的出游延迟到下午;八月里一个难得的美好的下午:山上吹来的每一股气息都是如此洋溢着生命,仿佛无论谁吸进了它,即使是气息奄奄的人,也会复活起来。
We deferred our excursion till the afternoon; a golden afternoon of August: every breath from the hills so full of life, that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive. |