Netflix announced a whopper of a price increase to all of its customers in July of2011. 2011年7月,网飞向所有用户宣布了一项大幅提价计划。
And at stake is one whopper of a payday. 当然,一切都是钱闹的。
Burger King, an American fast-food chain, published a full-page advertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the "Left-Handed Whopper," specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. 1998年愚人节当天,美国汉堡王快餐连锁店在《今日美国》上发布了一则长达一页的广告,介绍一款专为美国3200万个左撇子设计的左撇子汉堡。
In 1998, Burger King tricked its customers by releasing the left-handed Whopper. 1998年,汉堡王宣布推出左撇子巨无霸汉堡,结果是和顾客开的玩笑。
But whopper kept playing his game. 但是华勃仍继续玩他的游戏。
When whopper went near the people, they looked at him. 当华勃走近时,每个人都看着他。
Whopper did not answer, but his eyes were shining with excitement. 华勃没有回话,但是他的眼里闪着兴奋的光芒。
Everybody in the yard stopped talking and listened to whopper. 院子里的每个人都停下话来听华勃说话。
Whopper wanted to change his story again, but he thought of George and decided to tell the truth. 华勃又想改变他的说法,但是想起了乔治,所以他还是决定说实话。
The surface of the spaceship was glowing red when it came back into the earth's atmosphere. Whopper did not answer, but his eyes were shining with excitement. 飞回大气层时,我看到飞船表面红光闪烁。华勃没有回话,但是他的眼里闪着兴奋的光芒。
Whopper kept running all the way to the drugstore. 华勃一路跑到那家杂货店。
Then came the whopper: on July 18, Bear Stearns admitted it could not figure out how much money it had lost. 噩耗随之传来:7月18日,贝尔斯登承认,它搞不清亏损究竟有多大。
Whopper,@ she asked,@ where is my little boy now? 她问道:华勃,我的小宝贝在哪里?
He told a real whopper to excuse his lateness. 他撒了个大谎为自己的迟到辩解。
At first Whopper was very pleased. 起先华勃非常高兴。
People called him whopper because@ a whopper@ is a big lie. 大家就称他为小骗子华勃。因为“华勃”就是大谎言的意思。
One day whopper had two cents in his pocket. 有一天华勃的口袋里有两分钱。
If she had said that, she told a real whopper. 要是她那麽说的,她就是说了个大瞎话。
What a whopper! That must be the biggest one we've seen this year. 好大啊!那肯定是我们今年看到的最大的一个了。
The pharmacist says "wait just a moment", and goes back into the storeroom and brings back a whopper of a pill and plunks it on the counter. 药剂师说:“稍等。”他从储藏室搬出一个巨型药片,砰的一声把药片砸在柜台上。
She also told a big old whopper of a lie. 她也撒了个弥天大谎。
My heart bangs in my chest as I prepare to tell my sister-in-law a whopper. 在准备向小姑子扯这个弥天大谎的时候我紧张得心直跳。
After a few days, Whopper was playing with his marbles on the street near his house. 几天后,华勃在他家附近街上玩弹珠。
The fisherman had caught a whopper. 那个打鱼的捕到一条特大的鱼。
But a few minutes later, whopper remembered his promise to george. 但是过了几分钟后,华勃想起对乔治的承诺。
Whopper jumped in surprise. 华勃吃惊地跳了起来。
Whopper lowered his voice but he was still excited. 华勃降低音量,但还是很激动的样子。
As usual he told them a whopper and everyone believed it. 像往常一样,他对他们撒了一个弥天大谎,而每个人都相信了。
But whopper was afraid of it because he was a coward. 但是华勃因为胆子小,因此很怕它。