大学英语泛读4 课后idioms整理.docVIP

1. burn the midnight oil: 开夜车 hit the books: 用功读书; 准备功课 do back-breaking work: 干很重的体力活 work like a dog: 拼命干活; 努力工作 fall down on the job: 做不好某事 work one’s fingers to the bone: 非常努力地工作 2. be a breeze: 易做之事（毫不费力）informal something, such as a task, that is easy to do【非正式用语】 have a green thumb: 天才；有天赋（园艺技能）an extraordinary ability to make plants grow well be easy as pie: 极容易【非正式用语】capable of being accomplished or done with no difficulty have a golden touch: （在优越的条件下）做任何想做的事 have two left feet: 对某事不在行（极其笨拙） have a nose for something: 探查/发现某事（物）/善于探听 the ability to detect, sense, or discover as if by smell感觉能力 3. down to earth: 现实的 think one is God’s gift to mankind: 认为某人很了不起 show off: 炫耀 put someone in someone’s place: 挫某人之锐气；给下马威 put on airs: 装腔作势；自以为了不起 blow one’s own horn: 自吹自擂；自夸 4. bury the hatchet: 和解；停战 button one’s lips: 保密 flow with the tide: hold one’s tongue: 保持沉默 let sleeping dogs lie: 不要惹事生非 mind one’s own business: 别管闲事 rock the boat: 无事找事 see eye to eye: 完全同意 5. face up to something: 勇于正视；勇于承担 point one’ finger at someone: 指责某人；责怪 leave someone high and dry: 做错事情时老是责怪别人 shoulder the responsibility: 承担责任 pass the buck: [口]推卸责任, 把为难的事推给别人the buck stops here: 【俚语】责任止于此 worm out of something: 逃脱责任 6. all or nothing: not allowing for qualification or compromise; either fully or not at all要么是全部，要么一点儿也不要；没有折衷的办法 meet someone halfway: if you meet someone halfway, you accept some of their ideas make concessions give-and-take: the practice of dealing by compromise or mutual concession; cooperation middle-of-the road: stick to one’s guns: hold fast to a statement, opinion, or course of action, as in The witness stuck to her guns about the exact time she was there. This expression, originally put as stand to ones guns, alluded to a gunner remaining by his post. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1800s. 8. be a copycat: One that closely imitates or mimics another 模仿者, 死板地模仿或仿效他人的人; 无主见的家伙 cut the apron strings: Usually used in the plural with tied to ind