Madame DE Genlis was superstitious and a Latinist.
让利斯夫人有些迷信而且还是个拉丁语学者。
There are many superstitious about itching. For example, an itchy nose means you're going to have a quarrel with someone.
对于身上某个部位发痒,人们有很多迷信说法。比如,鼻子发痒意味着你将会和某人吵架。
It is a well-established fact that people who experience social exclusion have a tendency to slide toward superstitious and conspiratorial thinking.
感觉被社会排斥的人往往会投入迷信和阴谋论怀抱,这是一个得到供认的事实。
Chilean miners are famously superstitious and, for the families waiting on the surface, it seemed like a good omen that it had taken exactly 33 days to dig the shaft.
智利矿工以迷信著称,而挖掘工作正好进行了33天,这对等在地面上的家属来说是个吉兆。
Since Cantonese take to fortunes in an almost superstitious attitude, attaching a lucky implication to everything, red and green, and auspicious patterns are widely used.
因为广东话中采取的财富几乎迷信的态度,将幸运影响的一切,红色和绿色,吉祥图案广泛使用。
The reason such a spooked horse was called boggled was because people were superstitious and they thought what might be spooking the horse might be a ghost or supernatural spirit.
这样受惊的马之所以被称为boggled是因为那时的人们迷信,他们认为惊吓到马的可能是鬼或者某种超自然的神灵。
A wave of superstitious fear spread among the townspeople.
一股迷信的恐惧浪潮在城里人中蔓延。
A report from India last winter shows just how far people will go in following superstitious beliefs.
去年冬天,印度的一则新闻说明人们究竟可以迷信到何种程度。
And in a world already drained of confidence, one doesn't have to be superstitious to think that talking about contingency plans makes them more likely to be needed.
在这样一个信心被逐渐耗尽的世界,人们不再迷信的认为谈论未雨绸缪的计划会让他们成为炙手可热的焦点。
In the grocery store, listening to the same talk over and over, I began to feel a superstitious fear, the presentiment that in these endless discussions something awful was being hatched.
在杂货店里一遍一遍听着同样的话题,我开始产生了一种迷信的恐惧,人们没完没了地聊着这件可怕的事情,并且预感到有种阴谋正在酝酿着的味道。
For the superstitious Chinese, the fire is likely to be seen as a bad omen.
对于一些迷信的中国人而言,这场大火可能会被视为一个不吉利的预兆。
Not normally superstitious, Chloe and I seized upon a host of details, however trivial, as confirmation of what intuitively we already felt: that we had been destined for one another.
这不是所谓的迷信,克洛艾和我找到诸多的细节,尽管都是一些琐事,来证实我们直觉的感受:我们命中注定为彼此而生。
A common sailor might be forgiven for his superstitious prejudice but compare the contrasting beliefs of the educated classes of the time.
人们或许可以原谅粗俗水手的迷信与偏见,不过,再请看一下当时受教育阶层的信仰吧。
Superstition associated a heavily bearded man with old age and death, in addition to the superstitious belief of spirits which entered the body through hairs on the head.
有重胡须的男人老得快要死了。另外还有人迷信说邪气会顺着头发进入人体。
Consider coal with a superstitious eye, and foul air might seem a curse suffered for disinterring preancient life.
如果用一双迷信的眼睛去看待煤炭,燃烧时出现的黑烟似乎就是对挖掘前世生活的一种诅咒。
Are you superstitious? I guess I am a fatalist.
你迷信吗?我猜我是个宿命论者。
We humans are a superstitious lot, believing that Friday the 13th is bad luck and finding a penny is good luck.
我们人类是非常迷信的生物,相信13号的星期五代表厄运,而捡到一分钱则代表将有好运。
But this theory is extended by superstitious minds to make those milk-stealing butterflies actually witches who have taken a more attractive form to achieve their thievery.
但这个理论被迷信思想带跑了!这些偷牛奶的蝴蝶其实是巫婆,蝴蝶的外表是她们为了更容易偷到东西而套上的漂亮马甲。
"I said, wondering why someone more practical than superstitious would be fussing over such a thing."
我边回答边想着为什么一个现实远大于迷信的人会被这么点小事困扰。
In his search for good luck, Sina, like thousands of his compatriots, has turned back to the superstitious traditions that largely disappeared but which have now made a come-back.
为了寻求好运,和成千上万的阿尔巴尼亚人一样,伊扎特投身于迷信里。这种曾经几近消失的传统如今正在主导人们的生活。
A In America, thirteen is considered to be a superstitious number.
在美国,十三被认为是个迷信数字。
So do you think we're a bunch of superstitious natives or what?
那么,你会觉得我们是一群迷信的土著还是别的什么吗?
By superstitious behavior, we mean that a person continues to do something in a certain way that does not correlate with necessity — just because it worked that way before.
10通过迷信的行为,我们的意思是一个人继续以不与必要相联系的特定方式做事情——只是因为以前那样做。
I'm not usually superstitious, but yesterday was a VERY unlucky day.
我通常并不迷信,但昨天实在运气太不好了。
In spite of that, few people could get rid of number superstition. Once a superstitious belief is widely spread, it will become a formidable force of habit.
尽管如此,很少有人能摆脱数字迷信。一种迷信一旦流行,就会成为一种可怕的习惯势力。
Inman did not consider himself to be a superstitious person, but he did believe that there is a world invisible to us.
英曼并不认为自己是个迷信的人,但他相信确实存在着人们肉眼无法触及的世界。
Inman did not consider himself to be a superstitious person, but he did believe that there is a world invisible to us.
英曼并不认为自己是个迷信的人,但他相信确实存在着人们肉眼无法触及的世界。
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