Words And Their Stories: Hold Your Hors
“别摆架子”(get off her high hor)。
“耐心一点”(hold your hors),
“别闹了”(stop horsing around)，
乡村小镇”(one-hor town)
(wild hors could not drag me away)。任何事情都休想阻止我做自己想做的事。
“从可靠的方面获得信息”(straight from the hor's mouth)。
“最可靠的消息。”(straight from the hor's mouth)
师父引进门，修行在个人(You can lead a hor to water, but you cannot make him drink.)。
白费口舌(就好象beating a dead hor)。
在政治界，(dark-hor candidate)指的是不为公众所熟知的候选人
临阵别换将(do not change hors in midstream,别在河流中央换马)。
1. High hor 傲慢无礼，目中无人的态度
例如：The minute Max starts arguing, he gets on his high hor.
只要一开始争论，Max就会摆出一副高高在上的模样。
由此引申出的短语还有 ride one's high hor，根据high hor的意思就很容易理解该短语的意思，就是“骑着高头大马，耀武扬威，横得不行的样子”。
If you keep riding your high hor, you will lo your best friends.
如果你老是一副盛气凌人的样子，就会失去你最好的朋友的。
2. hor around 嬉闹
例如：Stop horsing around and get to work for Pete's sake! 别玩了，拜托干活去吧。
A: Look, there are two men fighting there.
看，有两个人正在那边打架呢。
B: Don't worry, they are just horsing around.
别担心，他们只是闹着玩的。
另外，hor around 还有 play around 的意思，所以如果有人问你：Do you want to hor around? 可别以为是邀请你去骑马，那可要闹笑话的哦。
3. beat/flog a dead hor重提早已解决了的问题；炒冷饭; 白费口舌; 浪费精力
这个短语也十分的形象，打一头死了的马当然是徒劳无功喽，再怎么着它也不会爬起来撒开蹄子飞奔了。
例如：
A: I'd like to talk with you again about what happened.
我想再跟你谈谈所发生的事情。
B: Oh, Come on. Let's not beat a dead hor.
算了，别再白费口舌了。
If you want to complain about the unfair result, fine. Just remember you are beating a dead hor.如果你喜欢抱怨不公平的结果，随便你。不过，你要记住，你这样做是徒劳无益的。
其他的关于马的习语还有很多，如 dark hor 一般引申为出乎意料的人或事，hold one's hor 表示控制某人的行为，一般用在劝人三思而行，不要冲动的场合。
1. Talk hor.吹牛。（hor译为“牛”） 陈大福
2. Ass in a lion's skin.狐假虎威。（ass译为“狐”，lion译为“虎”）
3. Black sheep.害群之马。（sheep译为“马”）
4. Lock the stable door after the hor is stolen.亡羊补牢。（hor译为“羊”）
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5. Cast pearls before swine.对牛弹琴。（swine译为“牛”）
6. When the cat is away, the mice will play.山中无老虎，猴子称大王。（cat译为“老虎”，mice译为“猴子”）
7. As hungry as a bear.饿得像狼。（bear译为“狼”）
8. Kill the goo that lays the golden eggs.杀鸡取卵。（goo译为“鸡”）
9. As timid as a hare.胆小如鼠。（hare充为“鼠”）
10.Neither fish, flesh nor fowl.非驴非马。（fish, flesh译为“驴”owl译为“马”）
11.Break a fly upon the wheel.杀鸡用牛刀。（fly译为“鸡”）
On Words and Their Stories: Fireworks: What Is All the Noi About?
1.defen n.防卫, 防卫物
例句：In his defen he alleged temporary insanity.
在答辩中，他提出短暂的精神错乱为借口。
2.explode v.爆炸, 爆发, 激增
例句：When they were landing, a mine explode across the field.
他们登陆时，一颗水雷在附近区域爆炸了。
3.He tells them, “I want no more of the fireworks in my courtroom.”
no more 不再
例句：No more bandits and victims.
没有什么匪徒和受害人了。
Words And Their Stories: Numbers, Part 1-The Number One
一方面(On the one hand)，
最好的(number one
谋求自身的利益又是九月九歌词(looking out for number),
为自己的利益打算(taking care of number one).似乎他们是地球上唯一的人(one and only)。
试图欺骗(pull a fast one)
百万中挑一的人(one in a million)。
真正的玩友(one of the boys)。
干一杯(quick one)。
喝多了(one too many)。
最后一杯(one for the road)天启大爆炸。
一个个(One by one)
曾经(at one time)
将来总有一天(One of the days)
一方面(For one thing)
命中注定的事(one of tho things)。
她离开他了(the one that got away)。
善有善报(one good turn derves another)。
节数就要尽了(number would have been up)，
回到原点(back to square one)，
put two and two together 根据事实推理
兔子可以吃馒头吗Two heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮。
There are no two ways about it. 别无选择；毫无疑问的
be of two minds 三心二意
in two shakes of a lamb’s tail (as quickly as possible) 马上；很快
kill two birds with one stone 一石二鸟；一箭双雕
Two wrongs don’t make a right. “错错不得对” 不能利用别人的错误来掩饰自己的错误
Two’s company, three’s a crowd. 两人成伴，三人不欢。
give three cheers for (为...)欢呼三声(Hip, hip, hurrah!); (为...)三呼万岁
six of one, half a dozen the other 半斤八两
in venth heaven 暗喻心情极为快乐、满足
on cloud nine 高兴得飘飘然
dress to the nines 穿着非常时髦华丽
a hundred to one shot 彩虹谷百分之一的可能；表示可能性很小
forty winks 大巧若拙的意思打盹
at the eleventh hour 最后一刻
Words and Their Stories: America's Fifty States, What's In a Nickname?
By Ted Landphair
2009-8-1
Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories.
A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.
America's fifty states have some of the most historically interesting nicknames.
Alabama is known as the "Heart of Dixie" becau it is in the very middle of a group of states in the Deep South. "Dixie" itlf is a nickname for the American South. It started when Louisiana printed notes with the French word for "ten" on them. "Deece," or "D-I-X," led to "Dixie."
Way up north, Alaska is called the "Last Frontier" for understandable reasons. Near the Arctic Circle, it was the final part of the nation to be explored and ttled.
汉代官职Arizona is "The Grand Canyon State" becau of the famous winding canyon carved by the Colorado River. The southern state of Arkansas is the "Land of Opportunity." The state legislature cho this nickname. Arkansas is rich in natural resources and has become a favorite place for older people to retire.
In a popular Spanish book, a fictional island called "California" was filled with gold. Sure enough, plenty of it was discovered in the real California, in eighteen forty-eight. This started a gold rush unlike any other in American history in the "Golden State."
You would think Colorado would be known as the Rocky Mountain State. But its nickname is the "Centennial State." That is becau it became a state in eighteen vent
y-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.
Connecticut is called "The Nutmeg State" after a spice. Connecticut Yankees, as people in this northeast state are called, are known to be smart in business. So smart that it was said they could ll wooden, meaning fal, nutmegs to strangers.
Little Delaware is called "The First State" becau it was the first state -- the first to approve the new United States Constitution. The Southern state of Florida likes to tell about its sunny days and fine beaches. So Florida is "The Sunshine State." Florida's neighbor to the north grows some of the sweetest fruit in America. So Georgia is "The Peach State."
Hawaii, far out in the Pacific Ocean, is the "Aloha State." That is the friendly greeting that means both "hello" and "goodbye" in the native Hawaiian language. So, aloha for now. Next week we will tell you about the nicknames of more American states.
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