the dog days
常見例句
- THE bombshell burst this week, in the dog days of summer, when fewer Japanese were likely to be bothered.
三伏之夏,在沒有任何一個(gè)日本人愿意被打擾的日子里,本周卻發(fā)生了一件令人震驚的事件。 - And despite the fact that we are fast approaching the dog days of summer, for most men, it seems, there is still only one answer.
盡管眼下依然炎熱,但對(duì)于大多數(shù)男性而言,這個(gè)問題的答案似乎還是只有一個(gè)。 - And the reward for seeing all this out is mere survival; a leader who can barely command his cabinet cannot put in place any big new policies in the dog days of his tenure.
即使過了這么多考驗(yàn)也僅僅只是“幸存”;幾乎無權(quán)命令內(nèi)閣的首相無法在任期的最后實(shí)施任何重要決策。 - The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year.
- So you watch the dog die over days or weeks.
然后看著狗在幾天甚至幾周里慢慢死去。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選 - This year, the dog days of summer proved to be more greyhound than basset hound.
FORBES: Connect - It's not quite the dog days of summer yet, but we do have a canine question this week for our ethicist, Randy Cohen.
NPR: The Ethicist: Weighing a Canine Conundrum - And the dog days of summer are not a guarantee of tranquility.
FORBES: Leveraged loans return 1.16% in July, trailing other asset clases; 5.75% YTD 返回 the dog days