精彩习语汇总（40）

1.ride roughshod over 对 …… 为所欲为

例如：

He rides roughshod over his subordinates.

他肆意欺凌属下。

 

2.Put the screw on somebody对人家施压力，强逼人家做一件事

例如：

As he refused to return the money, we had to put the screws on him.

他不肯还钱，我们只有出手段逼他还了。

 

3.all skin and bones 皮包骨

例如：

There's nothing sadder to see than a picture of children who are all skin and bones because they live someplace where most people don't get enough to eat.

当你看到一张照片，上面全是皮包骨的孩子，因为他们生活的地方大多数人都吃不饱，看到这样的照片比什么都令人感到难过。

 

4.Top-notch 最出众的人或其他东西

例如：

When I'm in New York I always stay in this hotel. Everything here is top-notch: the rooms, the restaurants, the service. And it's close to most of the places I want to go.

我到纽约来的时候总是住在这个旅馆里。这儿的一切都是最高级的，这儿的房间，餐馆，他们的服务都非常好；而且这个旅馆离我要去的大多数地方都很近。

 

5.crash course 速成班

例如：

I'm busy taking a crash course in German because my company is sending me to Berlin next month to open a branch office. It's hard work--four hours a day with my tutor and another four or five hours of study at home listening to tapes.

我正忙于参加一个短期训练班学德文，因为我的公司下个月要派我到柏林去开一个分公司。这么学非常辛苦，每天跟老师学四个小时，然后回到家再听四、五个小时的磁带。

 

6.Free- wheeler 不愿意遵守自己所属公司或机构的规章制度，自己喜欢怎么做就怎么做的人

例如：

Joe got fired from that big company because they thought he was too much of a free-wheeler: he wouldn't fit into the system. Now he's working as a used-car salesman.

乔伊被那家大公司解雇了，因为他们认为他不能按照公司的制度办事，过于自作主张。现在，他在一个卖旧汽车的地方做推销员。

 

7.Green thumb 很会种花种菜的人

例如：

All my friends said that I have a green thumb. They keep on asking me what I do to the plants at home as they look so shining and healthy. To tell you the truth, the only thing I do is watering them once a week.

我的朋友都说我特别会种花。因为我家里的花草看起来油光光，长得很好。他们老是问我究竟用了些什么方法。说实话，我只不过就是一个星期浇一次水。

 

8.Everything but the kitchen sink 几乎所有的一切

例如：

Gee, honey, do you really need all that stuff for a three-day holiday -- it looks like you've brought along everything but the kitchen sink.

哟，亲爱的，就渡三天假，你真需要那么多东西呀？看来你几乎把所有东西都搬来啦!

 

9.everything from soup to nuts 包罗万象

例如：

You ought to go and look around in that big new department store that just opened at the shopping mall. I've never seen so many different things to buy in all my life - they sell everything from soup to nuts.

你得去那个新开的百货公司看看。我一辈子也没见过有那么多不同的东西可买，他们出售的东西真是包罗万象，无奇不有。

 

10.street smarts 是在大学里学不到的，只有在实际的生活经历中逐步得来的

例如：

I learned a lot of street smarts during the years when I had to walk through Times Square to my office everyday. I walked with confidence, was aware of people around me and held on to my purse real tight.

有几年，我每天去办公室都得走过纽约时报广场。在这段时间里，我学到好多关于如何防备坏人的本领。我走起路来总是显得很有信心，注意周围的人，同时紧紧地抓住我的皮包。