lecture11-13idiomsandproverbs重点.ppt

3. 骨鲠在喉 --- to have an opinion that one cannot suppress To have a bone in one’s throat ---to avoid one’s opinion known 4. 同舟共济 ---to cooperate and help each other in order to ride out a difficulty To be in the same boat ---to be in the same difficult situation or dangers 5. 怒发冲冠 ---to bristle with anger, to fly into a rage, to be in violent danger To make one’s hair stand on end ---to fill one with fright or horror 6. 翻天覆地 ---epoch-making, earth-making To move heaven and earth ---do do one’s best 7. 蜀犬吠日 ---to make a fuss about something that one alone finds strange, un-called for alarm or excitement out of sheer ignorance To bark at the moon ---to make fruitless efforts 8. 洗手不干 --- of a thief, ect. to stop wrong and reform oneself To wash one’s hand of sb. or sth. ---to refuse to take any more responsibility for sb. or sth. 9. 扯后腿 --- to hinder, to be a hindrance to sb. To pull someone’s leg ---to tell someone something untrue as a joke, try to make somebody believe something that is untrue as a joke 练习：下列成语性词语多含有比喻，基本意思相同，但比喻的形象在中文和英文中有区别。在英译文的空线上加上适当的词，以完成该习语的翻译。 1. 缘木求鱼 to seek a hare in a _________s nest 2. 大海捞针 to look for a needle in a ______stack 3. 一箭之遥 at a ________s throw 4. 守口如瓶dumb as an _____ 5. 面如土色as white as a __________ 6. 胆小如鼠as timid as a _________ 7. 一模一样as like as two ______ 8. 蠢得像猪as stupid as a _________ 9. 瓮中之鳖like a rat in a _______ 10. 犟得像牛as stubborn as a _______ 11. 睡得死沉sleep like a _________ 12. 对牛弹琴to cast ________ before _________ 13. 一丘之貉____________of a feather 14. 掌上明珠the _____ of ones eye 15. 像落汤鸡as wet as a drowned ____________ 16. 满腹文章have a __________crammed with knowledge 17. 聋得像石头as deaf as a _______ 18. 像没头苍蝇as blind as a ______ 19. 无风不起浪no _______ without _______ 20. 挂羊头卖狗肉cry up ___________and sell vinegar 1. hen 2. hay 3. stone 4. oyster 5. sheet 6. hare 7. peas 8. goose 9. hole 10. mule 11. log 12. pearls, swine 13. birds 14. apple 15. rat 16. mind 17.