湖南茶陵三中必修一unit 2 growing pains period 6 word power课程件.ppt

① We kids probably make a lot of noise when we are playing, but we are all ears when Irma sits down and begins to read to us. 我们这些孩子去玩耍时也许是吵吵嚷嚷的，可一当爱玛坐下来开始给我们讲故事时，我们就聚精会神地专心倾听。 ② “I couldn’t sleep a wink last night,” Andy said. “I was all ears listening to the sounds outside my tent in Country Park.”“昨晚我一点儿也没睡着，”安迪说，“我专心听着帐篷外郊野公园的动静。 4. to pull one’s leg 逗别人，开别人玩笑 e.g. My roommate said this girl had told him she wouldn’t mind going out with me. But when I invited her to a movie, I learned he was just pulling my leg. 我的室友说，那个女孩愿意和我一起出去玩。可是，当我请她去看电影的时候，我才发现我那同学是逗我，开我的玩笑。 Hey, stop pulling my leg, will you? I don’t believe that girl really said she likes me and would like me to take her out. 喂，你别逗我行不行！我才不信那个女 孩真的说了她喜欢我，还要我邀她出去 玩。 Read the sentences and express what the colloquialisms under-lined mean. 1. Though you are busy, could you just lend me an ear for a moment? lend me an ear : to listen and pay attention to 倾听；注意；仔细地听 2. If Huston rockets can win this basketball game by twenty points, I will eat my hat. eat my hat: You are 100 percent certain that something will happen. 拓展：eat (one’s) words: to retract something that one has said. 食言：对自己说的话又反悔 3. I have never expected Lily to act as cool as a cucumber in the traffic accident. as cool as a cucumber: very calm and controlled in difficult situations. 像黄瓜一样凉爽 就是当一个人碰到困难和麻烦时很冷 静、很放松。 4. All the family members come to persuade Jim to change his idea, but he is as stubborn as a mule. as stubborn as a mule: refusing to change one’s opinion 倔得像头骡子 5. As a green hand, Robert nearly drove into the grocery on roadside. green hand : one who is new in a