" Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, " roughly translated.

大意“小心带礼物来的希腊人”。

Wilson suggested that Americans are sometimes known to be careless in their choice of words.

威尔逊认为，美国人有时在选词上粗心大意出了名的。

The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged.

书的大意说，如果我们当心，白色人种就会… … 就会完全被淹没了。

I think the court should say something to the effect, realization does matter.

我认为法庭应该说点什么，大意，实现确实很重要。

So what’s the drift of the argument?

【drift】那么这一论点的大意什么？

It was thoughtless of me, it was careless of me, an example?

我大意了，我大意了，举个例子？

I hope not so. Imprudence or thoughtlessness in money matters would be unpardonable in me.

“但愿会如此。我要在银钱问题上粗心大意，那可原谅的。”

The letter said something to the effect that she was no longer needed.

【effect】信中表达的大意，再需要她了。

I got through some jargon to the effect that I took the liberty of doubting that.

我理解了一些行话，大意我冒昧地怀疑这一点。

The main idea is that there's authoritative and approachable, but there's also warm and cold on both.

大意既有权威又有平易近人，但也有冷暖之分。

It had a stamped message from the mailman across it to the effect that the addressee was unknown.

上面有邮递员盖章的信息，大意收件人详。

And he tells me something to the effect of, you never know how things are going to work out.

他告诉我一些大意，你知道事情会如何发展。

But Nancy has an answer to make us, to the effect that our past is her present.

但南希有一个答案要告诉我们，大意我们的过去就她的现在。

In terms of craft, there's no excuse for losing readers through sloppy workmanship.

在技艺方面， 因粗心大意而失去读者无可辩解的。

The conversation was to the effect that the strange gentleman who had taken Mount Lodge for the season was seriously ill.

谈话的大意那个在洛奇山度过这个季节的陌生绅士病得很重。

We became particularly hot upon some boorish sneer of Drummle's, to the effect that we were too free with our money.

我们对Drummle的一些粗鲁的嘲笑变得特别热衷，大意我们太自由了。

Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.

科学家们急忙介入，但提出的证据显然站住脚，其大意，如果鸟类能控制昆虫的数量，昆虫便会吞噬我们人类。

Once you understand what the general idea is, then you scan the rest of the paragraph, looking for keywords that support that topic sentence.

一旦你理解了大意什么，你就可以浏览段落的其余部分， 寻找支持该主题句的关键词。

And Joe Jackson had this song which had the lyric, something like, you can't get what you want unless you know what you want.

乔·杰克逊有一首歌， 歌词大意，除非你知道自己想要什么， 否则你就无法得到你想要的东西。

Unfortunately, Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone's significance and merely made a few cautious and uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper.

威斯塔没有完全认识到这根骨头的重要意义，只小心翼翼地讲了几句痛痒的话，大意，它真个庞然大物。