看看这个短语：forty winks”。就是打盹儿、小憩一会儿”的意思。你可千万不要就词论词，把它理解成眨四十次眼睛”，那眼睛一定会累得说我要打个盹儿再眨” Forty winks”最早出现在著名幽默杂志《Punch》1872年的某一期上。...
chips are down”就是事态紧急、形势严峻”的意思。呵呵，是不是有点儿摸不着头脑？Chips are down：薯条生意不景，所以事态严重？别！千万别这样信马由缰瞎猜！这里，chips可不是英国人口中的炸薯条”。 Chips are down&rdquo...
自由，是人人都想要的。可是，单身意义上的自由呢？就不好说了。俚语to be footloose and fancy-free”就是指单身、自由，没有生活的羁绊”。16世纪，fancy”是love (爱情)”的意思，那么，fancy-free&rdquo...
为...操心It means to be ery worried or upset by sth.eg：I know I'm going to get gray hair from his driving.Note:Get gray hair from的意思是为什么事情操心，把头发愁白了例：...
Get a life is an American English idiom usually intended as a taunt. The phrase generally instructs its addressee to go out and make their way in the ...
"I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation and the only explanation I can find Is the love that I've found"传说，陷入爱河的人们...
It means to tease someone by saying something shocking as a joke.eg: She said she saw the plane's wing fall off, but I think she was just pulling ...
出自莎翁笔下的短语lend one's ears”就是注意，听我说几句”的意思。Lend one's ears（亦可说成lend an ear）”源自莎士比亚的历史剧Julius Caesar”（《裘力斯·凯撒》）。剧中，...
A combination of "blog" and "logorrhea", which means cannot stop talking. Blogorrhea means cexessive and/or incoherent talkativene...
认为左撇子‘是怪胎’的迷信说法、毫无根据的传言”叫做old wives' tale”。注意啦，这里的wives”可不是妻子们”的意思，wives”指的是那些生活在古代、迷信的人”。Old wive...