English Idioms Chinese Common Expressions Famous Sayings 0921

English Idioms / Chinese Common Expressions/ Famous Sayings

0921 - Idioms 1. Add insult to injury To make a bad situation worse; to hurt the feelings of a person who has already been hurt First, the basement flooded, and then, to add insult to injury, a pipe burst in the kitchen. My car barely started this morning, and to add insult to injury, I got a flat tire in the driveway. n

0921 - Idioms 2. As a duck takes to water easily and naturally She enjoys singing, as a duck takes to water. n

0921 - Idioms 3. Ask for the moon to ask for too much; to make great demands; to ask for something that is difficult or impossible to obtain When you are trying to get a job, it seems unwise to ask for the moon. n

0921 - Idioms n 4. At sea about something When it comes to higher math, Peter is totally at sea.

0921 - Chinese Common Expressions n 1. 愛理不理 n 2. 礙手礙腳 n 3. 礙眼 n 4. 擺架子

0921 - Famous Sayings 1. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ” --- Mahatma Gandhi n

0921 - Famous Sayings 1. A home run yesterday doesn’t guarantee your win today. ---Babe Ruths n

0928 English Idioms 1. At the eleventh hour At the last possible moment She always turned her papers in at the eleventh hour, so her teacher always punishes her. The workers were about to go on strike, but at the eleventh hour they reached an agreement with the company. n

0928 English Idioms 2. Babe in the woods A naive or innocent person; an inexperienced person Bill is a babe in the woods when it comes to dealing with plumbers. As a painter, Mary is fine but she is a babe in the woods as a musician. n

0928 English Idioms 3. Bag and baggage with one’s luggage; with all one’s possessions After having a ferocious quarrel with her husband, Shelly showed up at our door bag and baggage late on Sunday night All right, if you won’t pay the rent, out with you, bad and baggage. n

0928 English Idioms 4. Be a copycat To be a person who copies or mimics what someone else does Sally wore a pink dress just like Mary’s. Mary called Sally a copycat. n

0928 English Idioms 5. Beggars can’t be choosers a proverb meaning that a person should not criticize something he gets for free. I don’t like the old hat that you gave me, but beggars can’t be choosers. n

0928 English Idioms 6. Be poles apart to be very different George and Mary finish their relationship ten years after their marriage, because they are poles apart in terms of personality. n

0928 English Idioms 7. can’t carry a tune Unable to sing a single melody Singing lessons are always a pain in the neck for Peter because he really can’t carry a tune. n

0928 Famous saying 觸動心靈的美 不見得華麗 Beauty is only skin deep. What counts lies in how you are touched by it. 作家 劉墉 n 品質比數量重要 一支全壘達遠勝兩支二壘安打 A great home run in time is more trustworthy than two base hits in a row. 蘋果電腦公司執行長 史帝夫賈伯斯 http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=v 7 D 9 t-zu. VMo n

0928 Famous saying n 登山容易 下山難 江秀珍

1005 English Idioms 1. bite the dust to fall to defeat; to die The team won several games before biting the dust in the final competition n

1005 English Idioms 2. boggle someone’s mind n to overwhelm someone; to mix up someone’s thinking; to astound someone The size of the room boggles my mind. I never expect such large space. n

1005 English Idioms 3. cash-and-carry having to do with a sales of goods or a way of selling that requires that the buyers par for the goods and take them at the same time I am sorry. We don’t deliver. It’s strictly cashand-carry. n

1005 English Idioms 4. cross a bridge before one comes to it to worry excessively about something before it happens She’s always crossing the bridge before coming to them. She needs to learn to relax. n

1005 English Idioms 5. a diamond in the rough a valuable or potentially excellent person or thing hidden by an unpolished or rough exterior Jenny looks quiet and unsociable, but she is a fine person—a real diamond in the rough. n

1005 English Idioms 6. doubting Thomas someone who will not easily believe something without strong proof or evidence This school is full of doubting Thomas; they don’t believe any theory in the books until a fine proof is given by their teachers. n

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11/25 短句- Warfare n North Korea shells South Korea's border island, prompting Seoul to return fire in one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

11/25 短句-Climate n Monitoring our ailing oceans. O cean scientists are urging governments to invest billions of dollars by 2015 in a new system to monitor the seas and give alerts of everything from tsunamis to acidification linked to climate change.

11/25 短句-Science n British scientists have developed a new way of joining and rebuilding molecules and used it to refine the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox in an effort to improve its use for Parkinson's, cerebral palsy and chronic migraine.

11/25 俚語 Birds of a feather flock together Bob and Tom are alike. They like each other’s company because birds of a feather flock together. n

11/25 俚語 Black and blue My knee is black and blue because I bumped into the side of my desk yesterday and hurt it. n

11/25 俚語 Black sheep of the family Mary is the black sheep of the family. She is always in trouble with the police. n

11/25 俚語 A bull in a China shop Bob is a regular bull in a china shop. He turnovers the milk and spill it on the guest’s suit. n

11/25 俚語 Blow the whistle The gangs are getting very bad. It’s time to blow the whistle on their misbehavior. n

12/02俚語 Bite one’s tongue I sat through that whole conversation biting my tongue n

12/02俚語 Bite the hands that feed you I am your mother! How can you bite the hands that feed you? n

12/02俚語 Burn the midnight oil If you burn the midnight oil every day, you will probably become ill. n

12/02俚語 Can’t carry a tune Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry a tune. n

12/02俚語 Can’t carry a tune Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry a tune. n

12/02俚語 Slow and steady wins the race Never give in. Slow and steady wins the race. You will make it finally. n

12/02俚語 Under the table The mayor had been paying money to the construction company under the table n

12/02俚語 Daylight robbery It’s daylight robbery to charge that amount of money for a hotel room n

12/02俚語 Take the bull by the horns If we are going to solve this problem, someone is going to have to take the bull by the horn. n