在英语里,存在着大量的俚语短语,这些俚语短语相当于我们中国的民间俗语。下面,小编就为大家盘点一下老外聊天必备英语俚语短语有哪些。
· get hot under the collar发怒,怒气冲天
make someone hot under the collar
he got hot under the collar when he found his bicycle was missing.
· come through with flying colors干得出色,大获成功
in the 13th asian games, chinese athletic team came through with flying colors
· show (reveal) one’s true colors原形毕露
he always appears polite and gentle. but his quarrelling with others in dirty words show his true colors.
· one’s brain child某人的主意,某人想出来的
等同于one’s original idea
one’ brain children(复数)
the new ways of teaching which have been proved very effective are brain children of all teaching staff of our department.
· have a chip on one’s shoulder叫阵,叫板
he is not popular among his peers. he always seems to have a chip on his shoulder.
此外该语还有“不满”,“对抗”的意思
mary has got a chip on her shoulder about not having obtained the scholarship.
· clam up守口如瓶,拒不开口,沉默不语
i don’t understand why my students are quite talkative during the break but all clam up in class.
· take someone to the cleaners使人囊中如洗,一贫如洗
don’t ask me to play in a crap game. i don’t want to be the cleaners.
· a cliff-hanger扣人心玄的事情
peter was nearly involved in a car accident. he called it a narrow escape. but it was really a cliff-hanger.
· fight the clock争分夺秒,与时间赛跑
等同于work against the clock
if you don’t fight the clock to enrich yourself, you will surely be lagged behind soon.
· a clotheshorse讲究穿戴的人
princess diana was a real clotheshorse. it’s hard to imagine how much she had spent on clothes.
记发音时,重音、单词中元音的'发音、偏离发音规律的怪音是记忆的重点,可将之简化为“重、元、怪”。
比如editorial这个词,需要在字母t上标一下重音,否则容易读错。再如,我读错好几年的fundamental,da中的这个a,应该读[ə],不是[i],大家可以把这个元音标记一下。
同时提醒大家不要把每个单词的音标都照抄一遍,那样很耽误时间,容易忽略重点。