She has got less than a passing grade for quite a few major courses.

她多门主科不及格。

属类：学习英语-修辞篇-含蓄

She has made a major contribution to our country.

她为我们的国家做出了巨大的贡献。

属类：学习英语-教材英语-初三

For them this is a major operation which involves considerable planning.

看戏在他们是件大事，需要精心计划。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第三册

One way to catch a glimpse of the future is to examine some of the major trends in contemporary society.

考察当今社会大的发展趋势可以帮助我们对未来做出窥测。

属类：学习英语-教材英语-高二上

Terrorism continued as a major subject of public concern.

恐怖活动仍然是公众关心的大问题。

属类：学习英语-自考试题-

If you are foolish enough to skip the graphs or tables, you will often miss the major points that the author is trying to make

你如果竟愚蠢到略过那些图表不看，你就往往会把作者所要阐明的主要论点漏掉

属类：学习英语-动词时态句-现在进行时

But people who advocate it, on the other hand, claim that, by taking a major -related part-time job or summer job, students can not only improve their academic studies.

然而赞成者则认为，通过从事一些与专业有关的工作，可以提高学生的学习

属类：学习英语-句型-

Although they were all born in the eighteenth century ,they wrote their major works in the early years of the nineteenth century .

虽然他们都出生在18世纪，但是他们的主要作品都创作于19世纪早期。

属类：学习英语-教材英语-高二上

He said although going to college is one of the major reasons why we are learning English, there is much more to it than just that. He said although he knows that we find learning English very hard, he knows that we will find it useful one day.

他说虽然上大学是我们现在学英文的主要原因之一，但还有比那更多的因素。他说他知道我们觉得学英文很困难，但他同样知道我们将来会发现它很有用。

属类：学习英语-中国人写英语日记-语言即是力量

Paying more attention to phrases and small words as one major shortcoming of Chinese English (especially Chinese oral English)is that Chinese students tend to use big words in their oral language.

特别注意短语(词组)和小词的运用,中国式的英语尤其是口语一个很大的缺点就是中国学生喜欢用大词.

属类：学习英语-学习建议-

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the People’s Republic (1959), the government determined in 1958 that Beijing should undertake ten major building projects and complete them in ten months.

为了庆祝中华人民共和国建国十周年(一九五九年)，一九五八年，中国政府决定十个月内在北京完成十项主要建筑工程。

属类：学习英语-许国璋英语-

I will major in accounting.

我将主修会计。

属类：学习英语-成语例句-

I major in English.

我是英语专业的学生。

属类：学习英语-语法例句-

Newspapers exert such tremendous influence that they can not only bring about major changes to the lives of ordinary people but can even overthrow a government.

新闻具有巨大的威力。它们不仅可以给寻常人家的生活带来重大的变化，甚至还能推翻一个政府。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第三册

Many people seem to overlook the basic fact: the major function of clothing is to keep us warm and comfortable.

许多人似乎忽视了这个基本事实:衣服的基本功能是保持我们舒适和温暖。

属类：学习英语-典型例句-

Major changes will have to be brought about in British industry.

应该对英国工业进行重大的改造。

属类：学习英语-同义词辨析-

Twenty or thirty pages of information handed to any of the major world powers around the year 1925 would have been sufficient to change the course of world history.

在1925年前后只要向任何一个列强提交20或30页的资料就足以改变世界历史的进程。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第四册

This is a major achievement because, in relative terms, planets are very small and do not emit light.

这是一个重要的成就，因为相对来说，行星很小，而且也不发光。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第三册

It is only in the study of man himself that the major social sciences have substituted the study of one local variation, that of Western civilization.

只是在研究人类本身时,主要社会科学才取代对一种地区性变化(例如西方文明)的研究。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第四册

After the major agreement, we had to hammer out the details.

主要契约通过后我们必须苦思出细节。

属类：学习英语-成语例句-

[...]111:Computer technology has become a major part of people’s lives. This technology has its own special words. One example is the word mouse.2:A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings and open fields.3:It is a small device that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer. The mouse moves the pointer, or cursor, on the computer screen.

[...]111:计算机技术已经成为人们生活的重要组成部分，它有一些术语，例如鼠标（mouse）。2:电脑鼠标可不是那种生活在建筑物或室外的小动物。3:它是一种在电脑前的桌面上移动的小装置，鼠标用于操作计算机屏幕上的指针或光标。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：计算机术语

Stormy weather can cause people to cancel their plans. It can cause major events to be postponed. And severe stormy weather can be dangerous to people, property and animals.

暴风雨天气可能会导致人们取消他们的计划。它会导致重大活动被推迟。而恶劣的暴风雨天气对人员、财产和动物来说都可能有危险。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：风暴

Here’s another piece of advice: do not change horses in midstream. You would not want to make major changes to something you’ve already started. In the past, this expression was used as an argument to re-elect a president, especially during a time when the country was at war.

以下是另一句忠告：不要临阵换将（do not change horses in midstream）。你肯定不希望对你已经开始做的事情做出重大改变。在过去，这句话常被用做论据来辩论重选总统，特别是国家处于战争期间重选总统。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：说马

The opposite of toeing the party line is reaching across the aisle. In the U.S., the two major parties are the Democrats and the Republicans. In this expression, the "aisle" refers to the actual physical walkway that divides the legislative halls. Members of the two parties sit on opposite sides.

与不顺从该党派路线相反的是跨越两党分歧（reach across the aisle）。美国两个主要政党是民主党和共和党。在这句表达中，aisle是指划分立法厅的实际物理通道，两党成员各坐一边。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-美国大选相关词汇

A famous one is MIT. That is short for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Another major university is UCLA. Almost no one ever says its real name, the University of California at Los Angeles. That takes way too long!

最著名的就是MIT，它是麻省理工学院的简称。另一所重要大学是UCLA。几乎没人会提到它的全名加州大学洛杉矶分校。这太费口舌了。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：常用缩写形式