这些英语常用语老外天天都在用
作 者: 懒人外语教研组
出版时间:2013
内容简介
本书主要围绕三个小动物和主人公苏珊,以他们在美国的所见所闻为线索来展开。内容生动有趣,对话通俗易懂,贴近生活,为读者展现出了原汁原味的英语常用语表达。每个对话前面都配有情景介绍,并以幽默的漫画故事展开,对话为中英文对照。常用语和单词的引申丰富了读者的词汇量,起到举一反三的效果。本书更为读者编写了“美国通”,把美国的文化和生活呈现给读者,拓宽美国的知识面。
目录
日常生活
I'm really bummed that I have to go to bed so late.
I would like to burn the midnight oil.
He is an early bird.
We're all out!
I'm tied up now.
Do you want to wear the pants?
Let's ride out the storm.
I blew it!
I am just a little under the weather today.
情感表达
I always get butterflies in my stomach before the interview.
I feel like a million dollar.
You look blue today.
Hold your horses.
You hit the ceiling.
It's just a pain in the neck.
Stop picking on me!
You need to keep cool.
It really drives me up the wall.
You are getting in my hair.
It really let me down.
You knock my socks off.
Don't get worked up over it.
You are hard headed.
社会交往
How are you doing?
Break a leg!
Your friend is in hot water now.
Don't push your luck.
Give me a buzz on when you get home.
Beats me!
What do you do?
It was really a close call.
What's the deal with you?
Don't beat about the bush.
It's a piece of cake.
You should tell him to take a hike.
Is somebody sitting here?
I'm really broke today.
I'm all ears.
But he blew me off.
I caught him red—handed.
You look pretty with this pair of shades.
You look like a million dollars.
The Christmas party is really a trip.
It's really once in a blue moon.
Now I hardly ever get snail mail any more.
I don't see eye to eye with you.
He just kissed up to you.
休闲娱乐
This game is in the bag.
I like to chill out at weekend.
You are such a couch potato.
I am into soap operas.
That song is a hit with young people.
My vacation will go up in smoke.
I'm full of beans.
Let's make a day of it.
Let's get it together.
lust lighten up.
It is just eye candy.
Could you please hook me up with two tickts?
Just give it a shot.
lust hang in there.
餐饮&购物
A hot dog would hit the spot.
What's the damage?
Please hang out for a moment.
The beefsteak is money.
May 1 have a doggy bag?
You have a sweet tooth.
You are eating like a horse.
You will pig out during the Thanksgiving Day.
Nature calls.
The ATM is out of whack.
That does it.
Just follow your nose.
You always blow all of your money like that.
闲聊杂谈
You have such a big mouth.
He is really yellow—livered.
She is really a black sheep.
He really looks like a big gun.
Love me, love my dog.
He is very sharp.
He played hooky today.
The blue comer is on the rope now.
She is a dead ringer for you.
You are such a brown—noser.
You are jumping the gun.
You've gone too far.
You're just burning your time.
She kicked the bucket last month.
She gets paid peanuts for doing that job.
It's a white elephant.
He won't get chewed out.
It's a fat chance.
It only happens when pigs fly.
l just took a shot in the dark.
He messed up my MP3.
It sounds like you are really in a bind.
rm a dead meat.
I'm almost going to pot now.
His leg was shot.
He quarterbacked the meeting at the class.