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与身体各部位有关的美语俚语
从头到脚：与身体各部位有关的美语俚语
1
ARM
臂
The car cost
him an arm and a leg.
买这辆车他可花了血本。
She
’
s
my right arm.
她是我的得力助手。
He was strong-
armed into doing it.
他被迫这么做的。
No
one
’
s twisting your arm to
do it!
没人强迫你这么做！
They always walk arm in arm
down the street.
他们常常手挽手地沿街
走
BACK
背
Get off my back!
别再来烦我了！
I
don
’
t like her. She always
gets my back up.
我不喜欢她。她总是惹我
生气。
(
此用语原指动物，常用于描述猫发怒。
)
She
’
ll give the
shirt of her back for her friends.
她帮助朋友不遗余力。
She turned her back on me
when I needed her.
我需要她帮助时，她拒
绝了我。
This time,
I
’
ll give you the work for
free. You scratch my back,
I
’
ll scratch
yours.
这一次我把这个作品赠送给你，你帮助我，我也帮助你。
BONE
骨
We
’
d better go to
the market because we
’
re
down to the bare bone
essentials.
我们只剩下一些生活必需品了，最好去市场上买点东西。
Let
’
s get down to
the bare bone essentials.
我们来讨论一下正经事吧。
I have a bone to pick with
you.
我对你有点意见。
I need to bone up on my
English.
我得好好学英语。
This work is
bone-breaking!
这项工作很辛苦！
She
’
s a real
bonehead.
她真是个大傻瓜。
Wake up, lazy
bones!
醒醒吧，懒骨头！
She made no bones about
telling him to leave.
她直截了当地让他走了。
He
’
s
nothing but skin and bones.
他骨瘦如柴。
BRAIN
脑
She
’
s a real bean
brain.
她真是个大笨蛋。
She
’
s
such a birdbrain!
她是个大傻瓜！
She
’
s very
brainy.
她很聪明。
Since
you
’
re an expert, would you
mind if I pick your brain for half an
hour?
你是专家，那你是否介意给我半个小时，让我向你
讨教一些问题？
I racked my brain(s) for an hour but
couldn
’
t remember her name!
我绞
尽脑汁想了一个小时也没能想起她的名字！
/ I racked my brain(s) trying
to
find a solution.
我苦思冥想，力求找到解决问题的办法。
He
’
s such a
scatterbrain.
他这人真没头脑。
/
She
’
s so scatterbrained!
她太浮躁了！
CHEEK
面颊
She said it tongue in cheek.
她说的是风凉话。
Her mother turned the other
cheek when she took the cookie.
她拿饼干
时，她妈妈装作没看见。
CHEST
胸
I need to talk to you and get this off
my chest.
我要跟你谈一谈，把心里
的烦恼都说出来
。
EAR
耳朵
So what
happened? I
’
m all ears.
发生了什么？我正洗耳恭听呢。
She bent my ear for an
entire hour.
她缠住我足足谈了一个小时。
“
My
father
’
s a
lot
smarter than yours!
”
“
Go blow it out of you
r ear!
”
“我爸比你爸帅多了！
”
“胡扯！
”
She can really chew your ear off.
她能说得让你耳朵都起老茧。
The pages of this book are
all dog-eared.
这本书的书页都卷起来了。
She has an ear
for music.
她具有音乐方面的天赋。
I heard an
earful of gossip today.
我今天听到不少闲话。
He has all the earmarks of
being a thief.
他天生一副贼相。
Stop
explaining. It
’
s all falling
on deaf ears.
别解释了，没人会听的。
She
’
s able to
learn a new language by living in a country for
only half a
year. She must have a good
ear (for language).
她在一个国家只要待上半年
就能学会一门新语言。她一定有语言方面的天赋。
Keep your ear to the ground!
听仔细了！
I perked up my ears when I
heard her mention my name.
我一听到她提
我的名字就竖起了耳朵。
She
doesn
’
t read music at all.
She plays everything by ear.
她不看乐谱，
光凭记忆演奏。
(play
by
ear
也常常用于音乐之外，指“临时应付事态”
，
如：
Maybe we can have dinner
together next week. Let
’
s
just play it by ear.
也
许到下星期我
们可以一块儿吃顿饭，到时候再说吧。
)
I think the boss
is gonna be laying off those who
aren
’
t working hard
enough. I just put a bug in your ear. <
/p>
我看老板会炒了那些工作不够卖力的，
我只是先给你们透点口风。
She
talked my ear off for a whole hour.
她唠叨了整整一个小时，真烦！
ELBOW
肘，肘部
The stain will come off. It just takes
some elbow grease.
污渍是可以洗
掉的，不过要费点劲。
We had to elbow
our way through the crowd.
我们得从人群中挤过去。
I can hardly move. Give me
some elbow room.
我差不多动不了了，
给我
让点地方吧。
When I went to Hollywood, I
rubbed elbows with all the movie stars.
我
去好莱坞时，和所有这些电影明星都有过接触。
EYE
眼睛
an eye for an eye
以眼还眼，以牙还牙
She has such bedroom eyes.
她有一双性感的眼睛。
She
’
s
a real eye-catcher.
她非常引人注目。
She has an eye
for art.
她对艺术很有鉴赏力。
When I first
met her, she eyed me up and down.
我第一次见
到她时，被
她上下打量了一番。
That sculpture is an
eyesore.
那座雕塑不好看。
I guess my eyes
are bigger than my stomach.
我觉得饭菜点得太多了，
我是眼馋肚饱呀。
Hey, four-eyes!
嘿，四眼！
(
这是个贬称，说出去当心听话的人把你变
成熊猫眼
)
I
’
d give my
eyetooth to look like her.
我愿意不惜一切地模仿她。
Where did you get that
black eye?
你在哪儿被打得鼻青脸肿的？
I hate talking
with her because she keeps making goo
-goo eyes at me!
我不喜欢和她说话，死女
人老对
我抛媚眼！
That
’
s green-eyed
mons
ter talking.
那是处于妒忌才说的话。
“
She told me she
speaks ten
languages
。
”
“
In a
pig
’
s
eye!
”
“她告
< br>诉我她会说十种语言。
”
“吹牛！
”
I
have to stay here and keep an eye on my little
sister.
我得留在这儿照
看小妹。
We always see
eye to eye.
我们总是看法一致。
I think I need
to get some shuteye.
我想我得合一会儿眼了
FINGER
手指
There
’
s a lot of
finger-pointing throughout this case.
这件事上大家总是
互相指责。
She never lifts
a finger.
她从来都懒得抬一抬手指。
I think you
just put your finger on it.
我想，你终于发现事情的真相了。
When he drove past me, he
gave me the finger.
他开车从我身边经过时，
< br>朝我做了个下流动作。
He
’
ll do anything
I want. I have him wrapped around my little
finger.
我
要他做什么，他就做什么，全听我的摆布。
FOOT
脚，足
After she lost
her job, it took her a while to get back on her
feet.
失业后，
她过了一段才振作起来。
Just when I was about to
ask him for a raise, I got cold feet.
就
在准备向
他提出加薪的那一刻，我突然胆怯了。
Now that
she
’
s divorced,
she
’
s footloose.
既然离婚了，她也就自由
了。
We
don
’
t have to pay anything.
He said he would foot the entire bill.
我
们不必付账，他说全由他埋单。
She kept
playing footsie with him under the table.
她一直和他在桌下偷
偷碰脚调情。
You
didn
’
t get the job yet, but
at least it
’
s a foot in the
door.
虽然没得
到那份工作，但至少你已经迈出了第一步
。
I
don
’
t know what my job
entails. I
’
m still getting
my feet wet.
我不太
清楚自己的职责范围，我还
在逐步熟悉的阶段。
The
movie
starts
in
five
minutes!
We
’
d
better
hotfoot
it
over
to
the
theater.
电影还有五分钟就要开场了！我们最好快点
去影院！
(
此短语出现
于二十世纪早期
，现在偶尔也会用在玩笑中。你可以想象出某人因为走得
太快而脚板发烫的情形。
)
从头到脚：与身体各部位有关的美语俚语
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I don
’
t like
driving with him. He has a real lead foot.
我不喜欢和他一起开车，
他总飚车。
(lead
foot
指脚像铅似的重重地踩在油门上
)
The
poor guy has one foot in the grave.
这可怜的家伙离死不远了。
We have to put our foot
down on that.
我们必须阻止那件事。
Stop pussy-
footing around. What do you want?
别兜圈子了。你想干什
么啊？
She
’
s always been
quick on her feet.
她总是能很快想出办法。
She swept him off his feet
as soon as they met.
他们一见面，她就把他
给迷住了。
He threw him
self at her feet.
他完全拜倒在她的脚下。
She
always
gets
under
my
feet.
她总是碍我的事。
(
亦作：
to
get
underfoot
，如：
She
always
gets underfoot.
她总碍我的事。
)
We got off on the wrong
foot, but now we
’
re friends.
我们一开始关系
很僵，但现在是朋友了。
GUMS
牙龈；牙床
Stop flapping your gums!
别废话了！
GUTS
内脏；肠子
She busted a gut laughing.
她肚子都笑疼了。
You
’
re starting
to get a gut.
你开始发福了。
My gut reaction
to her wasn
’
t good.
我对她的第一印象不好。
He
doesn
’
t have the guts to
call her.
他没胆量打电话给她。
/ I
respect
you. You have guts.
我敬佩你，你真有胆量。
She
’
s
very gutsy.
她非常勇敢。
I hate her
guts!
我对她恨之入骨！
She spilled her guts to me.
她向我吐露了心事。
He threw his guts up after
drinking those two beers.
他喝了那两瓶啤酒，
几乎把肠子都吐了出来。
HAIR
头发
What a hair-raising story!
多恐怖的故事啊！
That must have been hairy!
那一定很惊险！
She finally let her hair
down in front of us.
她终于在我们面前变得无拘
无束了。
My little
brother keeps getting in my hair.
我那小弟总是惹我发火。
HAND
手
What
’
s the issue
at hand?
现在有什么急事？
Can you give me
a hand with this?
这事你能帮我吗？
/
That was a great
performance!
Let
’
s give him a hand!
演得真好！我们给他鼓鼓掌吧！
Hand it to me right now!
马上把那东西给我！
/ Hand it over!
把那玩儿
给我！
I
’
ve got to hand
it to you!
我很佩服你！
Although she
doesn
’
t have any money, she
refuses to accept handouts.
她虽然没钱，却不愿接受施舍。
I think
it
’
s the best movie hands
down.
我认为这毫无疑问是最好的一
部电影。
/ He won the election hands down.
他以全票当选。
I know this city like the
back of my hand.
我对这个城市了如指掌。
Since she only
has a temporary job. She has to live from hand to
mouth.
她只有一份临时工，只能勉强糊口。
He
’
s an old hand
at fixing cars.
他是修理汽车的老手。
Do you have a
screwdriver on hand?
你手头上有螺丝刀吗？
Things really got out of
hand when the police arrived.
警察到时，
局势已
经难以控制了。
He
’
s my right-
hand man.
他是我的得力助手。
I bought it
second hand.
我买的是二手货。
(
相关的：
I heard about the
accident second-hand.
这事故我是间接听说的。
)
They were short-handed at
work today.
他们今天工作人手不够。
One of the vice
presidents of the company told me to buy the stock
and
the other told me not to!
Obviously, the right hand
doesn
’
t know what the
left is d
oing.
公司的一位副董事长叫我买股票，而另一个
却叫我不要买！很显然，他们是各自为政
，互不通气。
I
’
m going to try
my hand at golf this weekend.
这周末，我要去
试试打高尔夫球
HEAD
头
I wouldn
’
t trust
her. She
’
s a real airhead. <
/p>
我不会信任她的，
她这人没
头脑。
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