Don't ask me to speak French! I'm out of practice.

可别让我讲法语！我已经生疏了。

《牛津词典》

After a few more climbs, once to the top of the domed reservoir, my fear seemed to evaporate in the warm midnight air—I had simply been out of practice.

爬过几次后，只要爬到半球形蓄水池顶，我的恐惧似乎就在午夜温暖的空气中蒸发了——原来，只是我久不练习而已。

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We're out of practice.

我们缺乏练习。

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I don't know who came up with this statistic but I love it: nearly three out of every five lines in Paradise Lost are enjambed - they embrace the practice of enjambment. The meaning or the sense of a verse paragraph is diffused throughout a series of lines.

不知道是谁得出这个数字，但我很喜欢：,《失乐园》中将近五分之三的诗句是连结的,-它们全都连结在一起，一段诗的意思或感觉,贯穿在这段诗的一系列诗句当中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Its "tax cuts for 95% of the American people" are the tax-rebate equivalent of the ancient machine-politics practice of handing out free turkeys at holiday time--nice gesture, but it does nothing to increase incentives for productive work, risk- taking and success, good things achieved by cuts in tax rates.

FORBES: Magazine Article

While it is technically an opt-out system - where consent is presumed - in practice it operates on more of an opt-in model, where consent is sought from the family of the deceased person.

BBC: BMA calls for fresh debate on rate of organ donation

The public will come to understand that repeal is not a necessary corrective to an irrational matter of discrimination (like the long-repudiated practice of keeping African-Americans out of the armed forces).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama vs. the all-volunteer military