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我大学时抄录的英语成语、谚语等(4)
武夷山
1. Stage a triumphant comeback
与“东山再起”有点接近
2. Give one’s eyeteeth for
为了什么可以牺牲一切
3. Handpicked successor
亲手选定的接班人
4. The rug was pulled out.
字面意思:地毯被抽走了,喻意:精神支柱垮了。
5. A good belly laugh
笑破肚子
6. The studies seemed to produce an open-and-shut case.
这些研究产生的结果似乎已成定论。
7. I really shouldn’t break in on you like this.
我本不应该不打招呼就这么突然造访。(一个熟客“闯”进门时可以这么对主人说)
8. Make a slight shiver go up the spine of someone
(某消息)使人毛骨悚然,使人脊梁骨都凉了
9. The book is must reading for …
本书是(什么什么人的)必读书。
10. I have no alternative to (doing something).
除了做这个,我别无选择。
11. Do something by way of celebration
做什么以示庆贺
12. You’ll have to account to me if …
(你若胆敢做什么)我唯你是问。
13. He’d become accustomed to having his meal brought to him.
他已习惯了饭来张口。
14. Boy friend acting up?
男友惹你生气啦?
15. It just didn’t add up.
此事简直就让人摸不着头脑。
16. What your statement adds up is that…
你这番话的意思可以归结为……
17. Admitting to being easily annoyed
承认容易生气着恼
18. His total worldly possession amounts to little more than the clothes he stood up in.
除了身上的衣服,他的全部家当就区区可数了。
19. Without firing a shot
不费一枪一弹
20. I won’t answer for the consequences.
有什么后果我概不负责。
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