新东方TOEFL复习笔记(第一部分:听力)5c
5. 小菜一碟的说法: nothing to it there is nothing to it none to speak of no big deal a piece of cake 6. 表达理所当然的说话: Is ice cold?常做为回答 Is sky blue? Does a bird fly? Does a fish swim? by all means = in any event 7. 一些短语(一) at sixes and sevens 乱七八糟 cost sb an arm and a leg 巨贵无比,买东西大出血,非常贵 feel under weather 天气不好 get up from the wrong side of bed 心情不好 don’t let the cat of bag 不要泄露秘密,不要告诉别人 apple of my eye 我的掌上明珠,珍贵之物 apple-polisher 马屁精 One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.一个和尚担水 喝,两个和尚抬水喝,三个和尚没水喝 care for = like = be attached to = get high on sth care to = whould you like to… care about = conceined 关心,在意 take care of 处理,负责 I’ll take care of it. 我会处理的。 be enthusiastic about 热衷于 be hooked on sth/sb 迷恋… be into sth表喜欢 be onto sth 想到…,有主意 rave about 沉醉于,迷恋于(程度很深) do sth to one’s heart’s content尽兴… be addicted to…对…上瘾(并不完全是不好的,比如非常喜欢juzz) adore喜欢(喜欢小的人、东西) adorable = cute 8. 偶遇某人: come across run into bump into encounter happen to meet 9. 不友好的表达: be hostile to sb be critical of sb be cynical to sb confront sb with sth找某人争执… 10.管用/不管用: it works (out) it helps it does the trick肯定+否定 it does some good 以上多以否定形式出现 11.一些短语(二) as cool as a cucumber as fit as fiddle 身体健康 as healthy as a horse as strong as an ox as stupid as a donkey as stubborn as a mule 形容某人太倔了 as poor as a churche mouse as merry as a cricket 形容某人太快乐了 as proud as a pencock形容某人太骄傲 as changeable as a moon形容多变 as like as two peas 形容长的像 as easy as ABC as simple as one two three 12.健忘: slip one’s mind slip one’s memory have a short memory everything gets in one ear and out the other absent-minded 13.代替某人: take over for sb fill in for sb take the place of take one’s place |