英语口语每日一练

　　1.go to the dogs 堕落

英语口语每日一练

　　The poor man went to the dogs after he lost his job.

　　那可怜的人失业之后就堕落了。

　　2.make a pig of oneself 猛吃猛喝

　　He always makes a pig of himself.

　　他总是暴饮暴食。

　　3.smell a rat 感到不妙(rat老鼠)

　　When he saw the policemen walking to him，he smelt arat.

　　当他看到警察朝他走来时，就感到不妙。

　　4.hold one’s horses 耐心

　　Hold your horses，we still have some time left.

　　耐心点，我们仍然有时间。

　　5.get one’s goat 令某人生气/发火

　　The students got his goat because they didn’t do theirhomework.学生们因为没有做家庭作业使他很生气。

　　6.do the donkeywork 做呆板的例行工作(donkey驴)

　　He had to do the donkeywork.

　　他不得不做那些呆板的工作。

　　7.put one’s monkey up 使某人生气

　　Your last word put his monkey up.

　　你最后一句话使他很生气。

　　8.kill two birds with one stone 一举两得

　　He killed two birds with one stone by shopping and seeing thefilm.

　　他既买了东西又看了电影，真是一举两得。

　　9.rise up with the lark 早起(lark云雀)

　　Every day my mother rises up with the lark.

　　我母亲每天都早起。

　　10.have a bee in one’s head 神经不正常、胡思乱想

　　It seems that the woman has a bee in her head.

　　那妇女看起来神经有点不正常。

　　11.have other fish to fry 有要紧的事要干

　　i have no time now.I have other fish to fry.

　　我现在没有时间，我有要紧的事要干。

　　12.like a duck to water 轻而易举

　　He worked out the problem like a duck to water.

　　他轻而易举地做出了这道题。

　　地道口语:“吃豆腐”怎么说？

　　come on to 轻薄某人，吃某人的豆腐

　　He kept trying to come on to me all night, until finally I just had to leave.

　　他整晚都想和我亲近，直到最后我不得不离开。

　　take advantage of 占便宜，吃豆腐

　　Men take advantage of women when kissing.

　　男人在接吻时占女人的便宜。

　　flirt with 调情

　　I had not expected that this shameful woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.

　　我没料到这个无耻的女人居然同她好友的丈夫调情。

　　chat up 搭讪

　　The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries.

　　这些家伙老是与新来“的”秘书搭讪。

　　地道口语:为朋友打气的英文励志口号

　　1. Stopping acting like a baby! Pull yourself together!

　　别耍孩子气了，振作起来。

　　Pull oneself together 常用在口语中，意思就是重新振作起来，镇静下来。

　　2. Chin up! Only two exams left.

　　别垂头丧气的!只剩两门考试了。

　　Chin up或者keep your chin up 就是别灰心，别气馁。当别人处境困难时，可以用这句话鼓励。

　　3. Be prepared for a rough time. And hang in there.

　　准备吃苦，坚持下去。

　　Hang in there 别泄气，坚持下去。当朋友想要放弃的时候，说这句话，让他们咬牙坚持下去。

　　4. I'm sure it'll work out.

　　别担心总会有办法的。

　　Work out(某种事情)有效的，切实可行，成功。比如：The plan worked out badly. 计划实行得很不成功。

　　5. You can do anything if you really want to. That's the spirit!

　　只要你想做，你就一定能做得到。那才是好样的!

　　That’s the spirit! 用于鼓励他人的勇气、决心，意思是那样才对，那才算好样的。

　　最后复习一下：

　　pull oneself together 振作起来

　　chin up 别灰心，别气馁

　　hang in there 坚持住

　　It'll work out. 总会有办法的

　　That’s the spirit! 那样才对，那才算好样的

　　“走投无路”用英语怎么说？

　　对话：

　　A: What did he say?

　　他说什么呢?

　　B:He said he would tell us the secret of becoming a successful man.

　　他说会告诉我们成为成功人士的秘诀。

　　A:It’s too good to be true! If I were there, I would ask him if he himself was a successful man.

　　哪有这样的好事啊!如果我在场，我会问他自己不是成功人士。

　　B:Nobody woulddrive him up to a wallby asking him such a question, you know.

　　要知道没有人会问这样的问题把他逼得无可话说。

　　解词释义：

　　up to a wall是指“到了墙边，已经没路可走了”，比喻人“走投无路”。短语“drive sb up to a wall”则指“把某人逼上绝路”，亦可做“push sb to a wall”。

　　支持范例：

　　Thatguyin the next apartment has been playing histrumpetfor four solid hours now and it's driving me up the wall! I' about ready to go next door and tell him to stop all the noise.

　　隔壁那套房间里的.人吹喇叭已经吹了整整四个小时了。这简直快把我逼疯了。我真是要跑到他那里去，叫他不要再吹。

　　Mary and I have been friends more than ten years.She's very nice and I like her a lot. But she likes tocriticizeme whenever I wear a new suit. Itdrivesme up the wallevery time she does it.

　　口语:英语“找到舌头”是什么意思？

　　对话：

　　A:Mother shouted at me just now. I was to scared to find my tongue.

　　我妈妈对外大嚷，我吓得说不出话来。

　　B:Why? I think she is always kind to you. You must have done somethingwrong. What did you do?

　　怎么啦?我觉得她对你总是很和蔼的，一定是做错了什么事情了。你做什么啦?

　　A:I only lost her favorite CD.

　　我只是弄丢了她最喜欢的CD光盘。

　　find one’s tongue

　　释义：

　　togue作为名词，有“语言”的意思，如mother tongue中的tongue;find作为动词，意为：找到，找回，寻求，寻得。所以，findone’s tongue字面意思是“找回某人的语言”，引申为“终于能够开口说话，终于说得出来”。

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