Jim: oh no, nothing like that. I borrowed my dad's car yesterday to go to a barbecue and hit a gatepost when I parked it at my friend's place.

The Chinese paste spring couplets on the gateposts when celebrating Spring Festival. Spring scrolls, also known as spring posts, are poems written on red rice paper to celebrate the New Year.

中国人在庆祝春节的时候会在门柱上贴春联。春联，也叫春贴，是人为庆祝春节在红色纸上写下的诗句。

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There was a dog pissing on our gatepost.

有一条狗在我们的门柱上撒尿。

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There is a sharp bend in the road here. She turned too sharply and rammed the car into a gatepost.

这段路上有一处急转弯。她转弯太急使汽车撞到一根门柱上。

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The gatepost against which the gate closes.

门柱得以关闭的东西。

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He cut himself on the gatepost.

他碰在门柱上割伤了自己。

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Here the boundary jogs south. She turned too sharply and rammed the car into a gatepost.

边境线在这里向南急转弯她转弯太急使汽车撞到一根门柱上。

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The Spring Festival is coming, so I glued a pair of gatepost couplets on my door.

春节将至，我在自家的门上贴了一幅门对。

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The gatepost against which the gate closes. Unlike a computer, your brain has no off switch.

不同于电脑，你的大脑没有关闭的开关。

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He accidentally nudge the gatepost with the front of the car.

他一不留神汽车的头部碰上了门柱。

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I ran into the gatepost and hurt my knee.

我撞到门柱上，伤了膝盖。

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They already put out the new year's gatepost couplet? Is not it too early?

他们已经贴出新年门联了，不是太早了一点吗？

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We turned between two big gateposts into what looked like an extensive park.

我们从两根大门柱子中间拐进了一个看上去像是一座很大的公园的地方。

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Before leaving the premises, the Captain, somewhat to the astonishment of the clerks, looked round from a central point of view, and took a general survey of the officers part and parcel of a project in which his young friend was nearly interested.

船长离开办公楼之前，从一个中心点环顾四周，对公司办公室进行了全面观察；他认为这个办公室是他年轻的朋友密切关心的事业的一个不可分割的部分；他这样做，使得公司的职员们多少感到有些惊奇。

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Some general counsels and compliance officers do provide ethical guidance.

确实有一些银行的法律总顾问和合规主管在提供道德指引。

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Li: In general, admission officers are looking fro two important things in one's personal statement. Zhang: What exactly are they? Li: First, evidence of your achievements that are not reflected in other parts of your application.

一般来说，招生负责人在你的个人陈述中要看两点重要的东西，一是在你的申请中的其他材料中没有反映出来的成绩和优点的证明。

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Method has the ultimate authority, ordinary people, general officers and Kings are to get legal constraints, and control, common officials and monarch also achieves the strict law enforcement, in accordance with the law.

法具有至高无上的权威性，普通百姓、一般官吏和君主都要受法律的约束和控制，一般官吏和君主还要做到严格执法，依法办事。

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Ring-tailed lemurs had fun scaring their friends with ghoulish Frankenstein and vampire masks.Meanwhile a brave Patas monkey proves he's not scared of monsters by eagerly tucking into this sorrowful jack-o-lantern pumpkin.

环尾狐猴以带着恐怖的弗兰肯斯坦和吸血鬼面具吓唬同伴为乐。另外，一直勇敢的赤猴为了证明自己并不害怕怪兽，急切地吃起这个看起来很悲伤的南瓜灯。

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Carved pumpkins are traditionally known as "Jack-o-lanterns." Traditionally, the jack-o-lantern was carved from a turnip, potato, or beet and lit with a burning candle.

众人皆知的杰克南瓜灯是刻在南瓜上，但人们一开始是在萝卜，马铃薯或甜菜上刻灯笼，然后挖空并点燃蜡烛在里面，形成灯笼。

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To scare these souls away on Halloween, the Irish people carved scary faces out of turnips, beets or potatoes representing "Jack of the Lantern," or Jack-o-lantern.

人们为了在万圣节前夜吓走这些游魂，便用芜菁、甜菜或马铃薯雕刻成可怕的面孔来代表提着灯笼的杰克，这就是南瓜灯（Jack-o'-lantern）的由来。

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He tucked his head into a sad-looking jack-o-lantern pumpkin.

它将一个哭丧着脸的空心南瓜灯套在头上。

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