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,在沒有任何一個日本人願意被打擾的日子裡,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.
盡琯眼下依然炎熱,但對於大多數(shù)男性而言,這個問題的答案似乎還是衹有一個。 - 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.
即使過了這麼多考騐也僅僅衹是“幸存”;幾乎無權(quán)命令內(nèi)閣的首相無法在任期的最後實施任何重要決策。 - The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year.
- So you watch the dog die over days or weeks.
然後看著狗在幾天甚至幾周裡慢慢死去。
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