现代英语词汇学概论10-English-Idioms.ppt

9.3.1 Stylistic Features We should never have let the arrangements to Smithers. He screwed the whole thing up from start to finish. (mess up, mishandle) slang 9.3.1 Stylistic Features With an impatient exclamation Peter screwed up the second draft of his letter to the bank and threw it into the wastepaper basket. (make into a tight ball in the hands) neutral 9.3.1 Stylistic Features Some idioms are only confined to certain varieties. beat sb hollow (BrE) 彻底打败 chilled to the marrow (BrE) 刺骨的冷 talk a blue streak (AmE) 滔滔不绝 on your own hook (AmE) 独立自主 9.3.2 Rhetorical Features 1.Phonetic manipulation 　(1) Alliteration 　chop and change (keep changing one‘s opinion) 反复无常 toss and turn (keep turning from side to side) 碾转翻覆 neither fish, flesh, nor fowl (difficult to classify) 不伦不类  9.3.2 Rhetorical Features (2) Rhyme toil and moil (work hard and long; strive laboriously) 辛辛苦苦 by hook and by crook (by all means good and foul) 不择手段 There ‘s many a slip between the cup and the lip. 茶到嘴边还有失。 9.3.2 Rhetorical Features (3) Reiteration (duplication of synonyms) pick and choose (select with much care or in a fussy way) 挑挑拣拣 odds and ends (remnants or things of little value) 零零碎碎 9.3.2 Rhetorical Features (4) Repetition out and out 地地道道 all in all 总而言之 word for word 逐字逐句 shoulder to shoulder 肩并肩 9.3.2 Rhetorical Features (5) Juxtaposition (of antonyms) move heaven and earth (do anything possible) 上天入地 back and forth 来来往往 hit or miss 中也好不中也罢 from start to finish 自始至终 9.3.2 Rhetorical Features (6) Simile as graceful as a swan 美如天鹅 like a rat in a hole 如瓮中之鳖 (7) Metaphor black sheep 败家子 flat tire 扫兴的人 fall from grace 堕落 9.3.2 Rhetorical Features (8) Metonymy in the cradle 孩提时代 live by one‘s pen 靠写作为生 (9) Synecdoche fall into good hands 落入好人之手 two heads are better than one 人多智广 9.3.2 Rhetorical Features (10) Personification Failure is the mother of success. Actio