显身手 meaning in English
display one's talent or skill 短语和例子
Examples
- He's going there tomorrow to show his paces .
他明天要去那里显显身手。 - It was a thousand pities that so clever a fellow should be shut out from a career .
这么聪明的一个人不能在事业上一显身手，实在太可惜了。 - Here was a chance to take on really prickly job, show his stuff, and earn brilliant advancement .
现在有个机会可以担负起一件真正棘手的任务，一显身手，赢得破格的升迁。 - For years he had made a practice of riding unmanageable horses, and he never heard of a vicious brute without wishing to try it .
多年来，他一直骑未驯服的烈性马，每当他听说有匹马难于驾驭，他总要去一显身手。 - Balzac's is a dense and actual world; cooper's, by contrast, is a mythological place, where in earlier times the knight-errant might have performed .
巴尔扎克描写的是实实在在的世界，而库珀的只是神话中的世界，从前的骑士倒可以在那里一显身手。