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发表于 2002-8-9 11:04


  1.Those second-hand pianos are selling like hot cakes, if you want one, you'd better buy one now before they're all gone.

  sell like hot cakes=sell very well or very quickly

  2.Whenever I have to make a speech I get butterflies in my stomach.

  get butterflies in one's stomach=get nervous

  3 He would do anything for his daughter. She was the apple of his eye.

  be the apple of one's eye=be very precious to sb.

  4 Lend me $30,please, Tom, I'm broke at the moment.

   be broke=doesn't have any money

  5 The accident was caused by a taxi driver jumping the green light.

  jump the green light=doesn't wait for the traffic lights to change to green

   6.You didn't think I was serious, did you, Joe!  It was a joke! I was pulling your leg, that's all.

  pull one's leg=tease someone, 逗某人玩

  7 Because the owner wanted a quick sale, the painting went for a song-only$1000.

  If something "goes for a song", it is sold very cheaply

   8 There was a shortage of food; so you had to pay through the nose for what you could find.

   to "pay through the nose " for something is to pay far more for something than it is really worth

   9 If he finds out what you did with the company's money, he'll hit the roof.

   hit the roof=get very angry

   10 The sky got very dark and soon the rain began to bucket down.

  bucket down = rain very heavily

  11 They all chip in for the benefit of Simpson's widow and little child.

   chip in=contribute money 捐献

   12.He usually buys his clothes off the peg. It's cheaper than going to a dressmaker.

  off the peg clothes =成衣

  13 Now stop beating about the bush and tell me what happened!

  beat about the bush=avoid saying directly what you mean

  14 I really must go and lie down for a while ;I've got a splitting headache.

   splitting headache=painful headache

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发表于 2002-12-29 12:27
能讲解一下吗?
最好是中文对照。

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发表于 2003-1-2 01:16
已经解释得很清楚了,呵呵
虽然我不是玉---树临风,潇---洒倜傥, 但是我有广阔的胸襟加坚强的背----弯。
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