【正文】 s out of the question!216。 They were only crying crocodile tears at the old man39。 It is unpleasant to hear him speak on national topics, for he is a bird of ill 叫他談?wù)搰?guó)事是不愉快的，因?yàn)樗３霾患浴?I had only recently seen John in a news of his death came as a bolt from the blue 216。, 39。216。 No way/There is no way!216。 Never/Never ever ever!216。 I39。 216。 216。216。s geese： 引狼人室Yes, I went there the night before last, but she was quite on the high ropes about something, and was so grand and mysterious that I couldn’t make anything of ，前天晚上我到那兒去過，也不知道她為何異常得意洋洋，又威風(fēng) 又神秘，弄得我莫名其妙 be on the high ropes：興高采烈, 得意 The Squire broke in, “Don’t think that I’ll have any humble pie eaten to that fellow Bellew!“ 鄉(xiāng)紳插嘴道：“別以為我會(huì)向貝魯這種人低聲下氣。在英國(guó)古代的傳說中，人們認(rèn)為妖魔常變成黑色的動(dòng)物，尤其是黑貓，還有人說黑貓就是巫婆變的。 It‘s difficult to get a man to bell the cat（敢于在危險(xiǎn)中挺身而出的人不容易找到）216。 他決定不了究竟是上大學(xué)還是去找工作，可事實(shí)上他只能干一件，兩者不能兼得。 216。 216。（eat one’s cake and have it too or simply have one’s cake and eat it）”you can39。她說：“他雖然矮一點(diǎn), 但他不但仁慈而且精力充沛，工作又勤奮。 216。 216。the less trouble the better。 216。 216。 216。John, a timid middleaged mickey mouse who was afraid of crowds，people，一個(gè)膽小的微不足道的中年人，他怕人多，怕同人接觸，什么都怕If the mountain will not e to Mahomet，Mahomet must go to the mountain.(諺語〉事不將就人，人就得將就事。s If you do it, it means that you are setting the tortoise to catch the ，這意味著你在做不可能做到的事He has an old head on young shoulders ； at one moment he is a scampish boy, and at another a resolute ：一會(huì)兒是個(gè)淘氣的小孩，一會(huì)兒是剛毅果斷的男子漢He talks about nothing but money —— It39。他們給孩子們太多的錢，太多的自由，這樣很容易導(dǎo)致少年犯罪。 216。 216。 216。 216。 216。 Guards knew when blue devils had seized the inmates of these cages, they couldn39。re very 。It was no use crying over spilt use building castles in the was needed was a planlots of plansserious, practical, sensible plans for the new ，徒悔無益。 216。 216。 216。 216。s brought 他在傾盆大雨中走了兩英里，到我們家時(shí)渾身沾滿泥漿，一副精疲力盡 的樣子。we couldn’t tell which members had paid their dues, and the rent wasn39?！盿 dispirited and resigned expression on her face“。 216。 216。216。 You should give John a raise in salary if you expect him to be happy at his work。 216。 216。 216。 216。 216。t scramble for power and profit and intrigue against ：be a bully with the backing of a powerful person 爭(zhēng)權(quán)奪利:to scramble for power and wealth 勾心斗角:intrigue against each other 兩雄相遇，必有一搏。t know what he is at may know a person39。s business is nobody39。t wish for speed； don39。 makes the mare can secure your ends with one hundred ，用100英鎊你就能達(dá)到目的。s pletely without ；在家和藹可親，可在生意場(chǎng)上，他卻完全不講道義。What you lose on the swings you get back on the at sunrise and gain at sunset我覺得一些看上去很健康的女孩子施以濃妝，實(shí)在是多此一舉。The Origins Jekyll and Hyde Jekyll and 《化身博士》（Doctor Jekyll and ),該作品所描寫的是一個(gè)具有雙重對(duì)立人格的人：一是善良的Dr Jekyll，一是邪惡的Mr Hyde?，F(xiàn)借用來比喻“不留后路，下定決心干到底”?！痹醋杂?guó)《觀察家》雜 志H12年第509期。go on a bat 縱酒取樂，酗酒胡鬧 go out on a bat 酗酒胡鬧go to bat [美國(guó)俚語]被判入獄，判刑on one39。Rabbit可以翻譯為?家兔?，但有的也叫hare，因?yàn)殚L(zhǎng)相接近，但實(shí)際上還是rabbit，如Belgian Hare.“兔”在中國(guó)人心中可謂形象復(fù)雜，有好的一面，如“形如脫兔”（比喻動(dòng)作快捷）；也有差的一面，如“狡兔三窟、兔子尾巴長(zhǎng)不了”。 ancient times if a man?s eye was put out by his enemy, he might get his revenge by paying him backing his own ，他一定要挖出敵人的眼睛作為報(bào)復(fù)。apple of love 愛情的蘋果這個(gè)習(xí)語源于殖民時(shí)期的南美洲。如今，這一短語可喻指“愛情的信物”。為了說明蘋果派是美國(guó)生活方式的一個(gè)特點(diǎn)，人們常說：as American as apple pie。In that country, many people found racial segregation a hot potato in the early 39。d drop that client like a hot potato?！癏e is a small potato.”也常被學(xué)生作為口頭禪，拿來互相取笑。）隨著電腦的普及，近來一個(gè)與potato有關(guān)的新短語流行開來，即mouse potato（這里的mouse不是“老鼠”，而是“鼠標(biāo)”），專門指“整天坐在電腦前的電腦迷”。要讀的時(shí)候，我總是寧可選擇過去的佳作，而不要當(dāng)代的次品。It gets me goat the way some people push onto a train before the passengers on board can get off When someone says the phrase “something or other really gets my goat,” they mean that they are extremely wide variety of things could contribute to irritation, ranging from someone else39。s fault but our cooked our own goose by trying to bite off more than we could one’s goose: ruin your chances。l?d?i](family tree).But mules boast much that their ancestors were horses。源自《圣經(jīng)■馬太福音》。據(jù)科學(xué)家們分析，此種罕見景觀的微塵可能 來自火山爆發(fā)，或沙漠揚(yáng)塵，甚至森林大火。其中與他同宗的魏戊被派到梗陽縣任該職。見菜上了一半時(shí)，咱們責(zé)備6己道：?難道將軍請(qǐng)?jiān)蹅兂燥垥?huì)不夠吃？?因而再次嘆氣。上黨 有城池17座，希望大王來管轄”。to fall short of the best, but be better than the A slow sparrow should make an early white night not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personnal losses spare no effort。be an eyeopener The country flourishes and people live in peace going too far is as bad as not going far enough。s dear ones far is on the festival occasions when one misses his dear The planning lies with man, the oute with proposes, God be too smart by half。too much is as bad as too little Everything es to him who once on shore, one prays no more Good news never goes beyond the gate, while bad news spread far and Harmony brings One is never too old to let bygones be bygones Gold can39。do one39。趙豹答曰： “圣人視無緣無故而得到為大禍害。s own fault at sb else?s door ③put one39。對(duì)是，涉案一方暗中送魏舒一個(gè)女樂人，他欲將其收下。s own mean measure t 或譯為 try to estimate what39。因?yàn)槟銈冊(cè)鯓釉u(píng)判人，也必然會(huì)被人怎樣評(píng)判。s value derives from what he does, not from what one of his ancestors might have been ，小康之家逐漸多了起來。d better be careful when speaking to her, you don39。The purpose of our pany^ trial employment period is to separate the wheat(the sheep)from the chaff(the goats).separate the sheep from the goats(British, American amp。t read much and when I do I choose the dead lion in preference to the living living dog is better than a dead lion．(下賤而活著比高貴而死了的強(qiáng)。筆者相信，今后還會(huì)有更多“新土豆”的出現(xiàn)。）短語the clean potato指“最正確、最適當(dāng)?shù)氖挛铩保部梢灾浮罢傻娜恕?、“?guī)矩的好人”。s always suing somebody for something, but he usually loses and he doesn39。下面我們要介紹的一個(gè)俗語是hot potato。例句：Japanese sushi and Vietnamese spring rolls have bee as American as apple 5.“Why didn39。t touch that 39。這種水果色澤光亮、鮮艷，形狀和蘋果十分相似。pay sb back in his own coin eye for eye tooth for tooth went on throwing open doors, and peeping was in apple pie order, ready for immediate ：一切井井有條，馬上就可住進(jìn)去。a rabbit意為a person who plays a game badly（蹩腳的運(yùn)動(dòng)員———尤指網(wǎng)球運(yùn)動(dòng)員）；在俚語中，hare指坐車不買票的人。究竟是哪一種態(tài)度？ Hare也叫jackrabbit或jack rabbit，不打洞（burrow/warren），而是在地面坑（depression）里或窩（form）。按規(guī)定驛站都 向顧客出租馬匹，他因喜歡自己的馬匹而堅(jiān)持按固定的順序輪流將馬出租。Homer sometimes “智者千慮，必有一失”。漢譯時(shí)，譯著“兩面派，具有善惡雙重人格的人” Sword of Damocles Sword of Damocles出自古代希臘的一則歷史故事。我在那兒碰這撞那，反而礙事。Ask for the moon: to want