Zephaniah 西番雅书02
1Gather together, gather together, O shameful 1 nation,
2before the appointed time arrives and that day sweeps on like chaff 2, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes upon you, before the day of the Lord 's wrath 3 comes upon you.
3Seek the Lord , all you humble 4 of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility 5; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord 's anger.
4Gaza will be abandoned and Ashkelon left in ruins. At midday Ashdod will be emptied and Ekron uprooted 6.
5Woe to you who live by the sea, O Kerethite people; the word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines 7. "I will destroy you, and none will be left."
6The land by the sea, where the Kerethites dwell, will be a place for shepherds and sheep pens.
7It will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The Lord their God will care for them; he will restore their fortunes.
8"I have heard the insults of Moab and the taunts 9 of the Ammonites, who insulted my people and made threats against their land.
9Therefore, as surely as I live," declares the Lord Almighty 10, the God of Israel, "surely Moab will become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah- a place of weeds and salt pits, a wasteland forever. The remnant of my people will plunder 11 them; the survivors 12 of my nation will inherit their land."
10This is what they will get in return for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the Lord Almighty.
11The Lord will be awesome 13 to them when he destroys all the gods of the land. The nations on every shore will worship him, every one in its own land.
12"You too, O Cushites, will be slain 14 by my sword."
13He will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly 15 desolate 16 and dry as the desert.
14Flocks and herds 8 will lie down there, creatures of every kind. The desert owl 17 and the screech 18 owl will roost on her columns. Their calls will echo through the windows, rubble 19 will be in the doorways 20, the beams of cedar 21 will be exposed.
15This is the carefree city that lived in safety. She said to herself, "I am, and there is none besides me." What a ruin she has become, a lair 22 for wild beasts! All who pass by her scoff 23 and shake their fists.
- It is very shameful of him to show off.他向人炫耀自己，真不害臊。
- We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.我们一定要向报社揭露这一无耻行径。
- I didn't mind their chaff.我不在乎他们的玩笑。
- Old birds are not caught with chaff.谷糠难诱老雀。
- His silence marked his wrath. 他的沉默表明了他的愤怒。
- The wrath of the people is now aroused. 人们被激怒了。
- In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见，他将在选举中获胜。
- Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。
- Humility often gains more than pride.谦逊往往比骄傲收益更多。
- His voice was still soft and filled with specious humility.他的声音还是那么温和，甚至有点谦卑。
- Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着，树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He accused those who criticized his work of being philistines. 他指责那些批评他的作品的人是对艺术一窍不通。 来自辞典例句
- As an intellectual Goebbels looked down on the crude philistines of the leading group in Munich. 戈培尔是个知识分子，看不起慕尼黑领导层不学无术的市侩庸人。 来自辞典例句
- Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
- There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。
- He had to endure the racist taunts of the crowd. 他不得不忍受那群人种族歧视的奚落。
- He had to endure the taunts of his successful rival. 他不得不忍受成功了的对手的讥笑。
- Those rebels did not really challenge Gods almighty power.这些叛徒没有对上帝的全能力量表示怀疑。
- It's almighty cold outside.外面冷得要命。
- The thieves hid their plunder in the cave.贼把赃物藏在山洞里。
- Trade should not serve as a means of economic plunder.贸易不应当成为经济掠夺的手段。
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
- That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
- The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
- His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。
- Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
- I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
- The city was burned into a desolate waste.那座城市被烧成一片废墟。
- We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.她走后，我们都觉得万分孤寂。
- Her new glasses make her look like an owl.她的新眼镜让她看上去像只猫头鹰。
- I'm a night owl and seldom go to bed until after midnight.我睡得很晚，经常半夜后才睡觉。
- He heard a screech of brakes and then fell down. 他听到汽车刹车发出的尖锐的声音,然后就摔倒了。
- The screech of jet planes violated the peace of the afternoon. 喷射机的尖啸声侵犯了下午的平静。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children. 从各家茅屋里涌出一堆一堆的人群，从门口蹦出一群一群小孩。 来自辞典例句
- He rambled under the walls and doorways. 他就顺着墙根和门楼遛跶。 来自辞典例句
- The cedar was about five feet high and very shapely.那棵雪松约有五尺高,风姿优美。
- She struck the snow from the branches of an old cedar with gray lichen.她把长有灰色地衣的老雪松树枝上的雪打了下来。