中国人最常说的话其实英语该这么说
1. 不妙something is to pay
经理感到事情有点不妙。
The manager had a hunch that something was to pay.
1．眼中钉a thorn in someone’s flesh.
不知为什么我成了他们的眼中钉了。我可从未错待过他们。
I wonder why I become a thorn in their flesh. I’ve never harmed them.
3.馋得流口水make someone’s mouth wate r
桌上的美味佳肴馋得他直流口水。
The delicacies on the table make him mouth water.
4.胡说八道shooting from the hip
他说我迷恋上了莉莉?这简直是胡说八道。
He thinks I’ve got the hots for lily? It’s shooting from the hip!
5.各奔东西drift apart
毕业后我们班的同学就各奔东西了。
After graduation my classmates drifted apart.
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6.呕吐shoot the cat
他刚吃完饭就吐了. He shoot the cat right after the meal.无氟冰箱
7.打嗝make a belch
孩子打嗝了，让他喝口水吧。
The kid is making a belch. Give him a drink.
8.久等cool one’s heels
我在你家门外足足等了两个小时。
I was left cooling my heels outside your home for two hours.
9.各有利弊cut both ways队长英语
在国营企业或合资企业工作各有利弊：在国营企业工作比较安定，但工资较少。在合资企业工作挣钱多一些，可是又不稳定。
tundraIt cuts both ways to work in a state-run enterpri or a joint venture: the pay from a state-run enterpri is relatively lower but you feel more stable while in
a joint venture you feel unassured, through the pay is relatively higher.
10.吃闭门羹to a locked door
我昨天去他家看他，不想吃了闭门羹。
I went to e him yesterday, but unfortunately I was to a locked door.
11.哪儿都找了look high and low
我哪都找了，可还是没有找到那把钥匙。
I looked high and low for the key, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
12.抽筋have a charley hor
别碰我，我大腿抽筋了。
Don’t touch me; I’ve got a charley hor on the leg.
13.烫伤to scald
炸丸子时他把手给烫伤了，现在手上全是泡。
He had his hand scalded when frying meatballs and now the scalds come up in blisters all over his hand.
14.被叮get stung by
在割草时，他被黄蜂叮了一下，现在脸都肿了。
He got stung by a wasp while cutting grass and his face is swollen now.
15.不一会儿in a jiffy
别离开，他们不一会就到了。
Don’t go away. They’ll arrive in jiffy.
16.碰某人一指头lay a finger on…
如果你再敢碰我妹妹一指头，我就杀了你。桃花源记翻译
I’ll kill you if you so much as lay a finger on my sister again.
17.让我…… lemme…
让我试试吧。Lemme have a try.
yyz(lemme 是let me音变形式。)
18.我不骗你I kid you not
真的，我不骗你。他确实是那样说的。
Really. I kid you. He indeed said so.
19.千篇一律be in a rut
他们的生活只是老一套，不是上班，就是回家做饭或看电视。
Their life is always in a rut. They would either go to work or do cooking and watch TV after work.
20．经常出没于某地haunt about a place
有人向警方报告说那个嫌疑犯经常和一个戴眼镜的女孩出没于西山角下的大饭店。
Some reported to the police that the suspect often haunted about the grand hotel at the foot of the western hill with a four-eyed girl.
21.拿手be right up someone’s alley
你可以让老张做那条鱼，那是他的拿手好戏。
abstentionYou may ask Lao Zhang to cook the fish, it is right up his alley.
22.拜倒某人脚下worship the ground sb. treads on
他的才华使得很多学者都拜倒在他脚下了
His talents have made many scholars worship the ground that he treads on.
23.例假that time of the month
医生说女人来例假时不应干过重的活。
The doctor says that women at that time of the month should avoid doing heavy work.
24.坐月子be in confinement
中国有这样一个说法，女人坐月子时是不能被看望的。
There’s a Chine saying that goes “a woman in confinement should not be visited。”
25．闲聊chew the rag
我特别讨厌和他们那帮人在那里山南海北的闲聊。
I got fed up sitting there and chewing the rag with the gang like theirs.
26.从小看大the child is father of the man
从小看大，他现在不好好学习，将来也不会有什么出息。
The child is father of the man. From the way he loathes studied you know that he’s not the one among tho that will make the mark.
27.坐牢be caged
insane
他因犯强奸罪而做了三年的牢
He had been caged for three years for committing rape.
28.满城风雨be the talk of the town
那个电影明星和市长订婚弄得满城风雨的。
The film star’s engagement with the mayor became the talk of the town.
29.零零碎碎的东西odds and ends
请你把桌上那些零零碎碎的东西都收拾起来吧。
Will you plea tidy up all the odds and ends on the table.
30.生米做成了熟饭the die is cast
如今生米做成了熟饭，你再反对又有什么用？
What’s the point of standing against it? The die is already cast.
31.听到风声get wind of something
如果他们听到风声，知道我们在搞什么，我们就很被动了。
枇杷的英文
If they get wind of what we are doing, we’ll then be in a very passive position.
32.苗头a straw in the wind
他有被晋升的苗头。
lineupThere’s a straw in the wind: he’ll be promoted.
33．卡壳儿get stuck
前面的5道题他都作对了，最后一道题却卡了壳。
He got all the five questions right, but got stuck in the last one.
34．哪里哪里shucks
你真是太勇敢了。You were so brave.
哪里哪里，这算不了什么。Shucks, it wasn’t anything.
35.乱七八糟be at sixes and vens
她的房间总是乱七八糟的，连个下脚的地方都没有。
Her room is always at sixes and vens, even without room to swing a cat in.
36.受……支配be at the mercy of
如果你不想受人家支配，你就必须单干，经营你自己的一摊儿。
If you don’t want to be at the mercy of others m you’ll have to start a business of your own.
