习语词汇

1．Serve right 活该

2．With flying colors 完全或显著的成功

3．Beat around the bush 转弯抹角，旁敲侧击

4．Burn/make a hole in one's pocket 钱烧口袋漏，一有就不留。

5．As fit as a fiddle 身体健康，精神很好 as poor as a church mouse 一贫如洗

as cool as a cucumber 泰然自若，极为冷静 as dry as a bone 枯燥无味的

as cold as charity 冷酷无情的 as good as gold (小孩等)表现很好；高质量的，可靠的

as green as grass 缺乏经验的，幼稚无知的 as keen as a hawk 目光犀利，眼睛尖

as proud as a peacock 非常骄傲，神气活现 as strong as a horse 非常强壮

*sleep like a dead pig R: sleep like a log 熟睡*red tea R: black tea 红茶

*black eye R: dark brown eye 黑眼珠

6．Rush one's fences in wrong circumstances 鲁莽行事，急于求成

Achilles' heel 唯一致命的弱点

7．Apple of one's eye 宠物，珍爱物 one's cup of tea 合胃口的东西，所喜爱的人或物

8．Burn night oil 熬夜，工作到深夜 stay up

9. live a cat and dog life 经常吵架 as sick as a cat 直想呕吐 as weak as a cat 身体非常虚弱

Has the cat got your tongue? 为什么不吭声？ It rains cats and dogs. 下倾盆大雨。

Cat-and mouse 折磨的，虐待的

You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (An old dog will learn no new tricks.)

[谚老狗学不了新把戏; 老年人很难适应新事物。

英语中有许多与狗有关的成语和典故，如：

A good dog deserves a good bone. [谚好狗应啃好骨头, 有功者受赏。

A living dog is better than a dead lion. [谚死狮不如活狗。

A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with. [谚欲加之罪, 何患无辞。

Barking dogs seldom bite. [谚爱叫的狗不咬人; 咬人的狗不露齿。

be (old) dog at (a thing) 对...有经验; 对...很内行

Every dog has his day. [谚凡人皆有得意日。

Give a dog a bad/ill name. [谚一旦给人加一个坏名声, 他就永远洗刷不掉; 人言可畏。

10．Off the top of one's head 不假思索的，以即兴方式的

off one's head/out of one's head 精神错乱的，疯狂的
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