现代英语口语表示法 (1/115)

等同于one’s original idea<o:p></o:p>

one’s brain children（复数）<o:p></o:p>

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The new ways of teaching which have been proved very effective are brain children of all teaching staff of our department.<o:p></o:p>

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• Have a chip on one’s shoulder叫阵，叫板<o:p></o:p>

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He is not popular among his peers. He always seems ti have a chip on his shoulder.<o:p></o:p>

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此外该语还有“不满”，“对抗”的意思<o:p></o:p>

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Mary has got a chip on her shoulder about not having obtained the scholarship.<o:p></o:p>

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• Clam up守口如瓶，拒不开口，沉默不语I don’t understand why my students are quite talkative during the break but all clam up in class.<o:p></o:p>

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• Take someone to the cleaners使人囊中如洗，一贫如洗<o:p></o:p>

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Don’t ask me to play in a crap game. I don’t want to be the cleaners.<o:p></o:p>

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• A cliff-hanger扣人心玄的事情<o:p></o:p>

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Peter was nearly involved in a car accident. He called it a narrow escape. But it was really a cliff-hanger.<o:p></o:p>

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• Fight the clock争分夺秒，与时间赛跑<o:p></o:p>

等同于work against the clock<o:p></o:p>

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If you don’t fight the clock to enrich yourself, you will surely be lagged behind soon.<o:p></o:p>

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• A clotheshorse讲究穿戴的人<o:p></o:p>

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Princess Diana was a real clotheshorse. It’s hard to imagine how much she had spent on clothes.<o:p></o:p>

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Get hot under the collar发怒，怒气冲天<o:p></o:p>

Make someone hot under the collar<o:p></o:p>

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He got hot under the collar when he found his bicycle was missing.<o:p></o:p>

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• Come through with flying colors干得出色，大获成功<o:p></o:p>

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In the 13^th Asian Games, Chinese athletic team came through with flying colors<o:p></o:p>

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• Show (reveal) one’s true colors原形毕露<o:p></o:p>

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He always appears polite and gentle. But his quarrelling with others in dirty words show his true colors.<o:p></o:p>

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• Come up with找出，想出，弄出，提出<o:p></o:p>

等同于to produce, to find out, to think out<o:p></o:p>

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After three days’ of deep thinking, the manager came up with an idea of promoting the products.<o:p></o:p>

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• Jump to conclusions仓促的下结论<o:p></o:p>

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Being a teacher, he shouldn’t jump to conclusions that a student is not worth teaching simply because he fails one exam.<o:p></o:p>

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• To one’s heart’s content心满意足<o:p></o:p>

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Today is weekend. The lights won’t go off after 11 o’clock. We can chat to our heart’s content.<o:p></o:p>

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