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英语
Idioms
汇总
unit1
1.
Breath
of life
生命的气息
Poetry and art are
the
breath of life
to her.
诗歌和艺术是她的生命之源。
2.
Garden of
Eden
伊甸园
Life is
no
Garden of Eden
at the
moment.
现今的生活没有乐土。
3.
Adam and
Eve
亚当和夏娃
I don’t remember when all this took
place. Perhaps it was when
Adam and
Eve
lived.
我不记得这所有的事是何时发生的，也许是在很久很久以前。
There is a tendency of
longevity
长寿
on
his
mother
’
s
side.
Both
his
grandpa and grandma lived to be over
ninety
—
lived to
be
Adam and Eve
, as
they say.
在他母亲那系有长寿的趋向。
他的外祖父和外祖母都活到了九十多岁，
就像他们
说的，要长命百岁。
4.
Adam’s
profession
亚当的职业
He
has
always
been
thinking
of
engaging
in
Adam’s
profession
when
he
retires.
他总是想要在退休后从事园艺工作。
5.
Bone of one’s
bones and flesh of one’s
flesh
骨中骨，肉中肉
I
hold
myself
supremely
blest
—
blest
beyond
what
language
can
express;
because I am my
husband’s life as fully as he is mine. No woman
was ever nearer
to her mate than I am:
ever more absolutely
bone of his bones
and flesh of his
flesh
.
融为一体
－－
Jane
Eyre
The
trade
union
was
bone
of
the
bones
and
flesh
of
the
flesh
of
the
workers.
工会和工人们休戚相关。
unit2
1.
Fig leaves
无花果叶
Come and see this picture
of Tom in his
babyhood
—
without even a fig
leaf on.
快来看这张
Tom
一丝不挂的婴儿照。
2.
Curse of
Adam
亚当的诅咒
His
father died young and the curse of Adam kept him
from continuing his schooling
as he had
to help his mother support a big family.
他的父亲英年早逝，
这苦难使他不能继续上学因为他要帮他母亲撑起整个大家庭。<
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3.
by
the sweat of one
’
s
brow
一
个人额头上的汗水
In the sweat of their brow, the peasant
couple sent all their children to university.
在辛勤劳作下，这对农民夫妇把他们的孩子全送进了大学
4.
For dust you
are and to dust you will
return
因为你是尘土，你将回归尘土
I see no point accumulating material
possessions by the sweat of
one
’
s brow. After
all, for dust you are, and to dust you
shall return.
我认为辛苦工作来积攒物质财富毫无意义。毕竟，人生不
带来死不带去。
5.
Brother
’
s
keeper
兄弟的守护者
Is the ideal
philosophy
哲学
”
?
“人人为己”或者“帮助他人”是理想的哲学吗？
6.
Forbidden
fruit
禁忌之果
A: I
told Tom he was not
allowed
to eat ice-cream today, but you know---
我告诉汤姆他今天不准吃冰激凌，但是你知道的——
B: Well, forbidden fruit tastes better;
and this is especially true of kids.
是的，被禁止的总是更美味的，尤其是对孩子来说。
7.
Fall from
grace
堕落
He had been the
king
’
s favorite, and his
sudden fall from grace surprised
everyone.
他曾是国王的宠臣，他的突然失宠惊呆了每个人。
8.
Noah
’
s
Ark
诺亚方舟
Strong
will and hard work are like a
Noah
’
s Ark which saves
people from their
sufferings.
强烈的愿望和努力工作就像是救命
稻草把人们从苦难之中解救出来。
9.
Dove and olive leaf
鸽子和橄榄叶
His coming
to power may help bring the dove and olive leaf to
the Middle East.
他的上台可能会给中东地区带来和平。
They are flying flag of dove and olive
leaf instead of skeletons, for the first times in
forty years
’
civil war.
在四十年内战中，他们第一次高举和平的旗帜而不是死亡之旗。
10.
The Tower of
Babel
巴别塔
He is
more fond of empty talk than solid work, so all
his plans are the Tower of Babel.
他更喜欢空谈
而不是实干，所以他的计划全是纸上谈兵。
A tower
of Babel of voices could be heard from the
schoolroom.
叽叽喳喳的声音从教室里传来。
His further statement, instead of
shedding light on the situation, set up a tower of
Babel among the listeners.
他进一步的阐述，没让情况更明朗，反倒让听者更迷惑了。
unit3
1. land of
promise/ the promised land
应许之地
America was
the promised land
for many
immigrant families.
对许多移民家庭来说美国是一片乐土。
2. Sodom and Gomorrah
所多玛和蛾摩拉
The
village had a reputation as a latter-
day
SodomandGomorrah
.
这个村庄在后世有罪恶之城之称。
3. burning sulfur (fire and brimstone)
硫磺烈火
Shethinkstha
tonewillsuffer
fireandbrimstone
afterdeathifhe
hasdone
wrong.
她认为人如果犯了错的话死后会受地狱之火。
When
the
disorderly
students
finally
saw
the
principal,
she
was
breathing
fire and brimstone
.
当混乱的学生终于看到校长的时候，她正火冒三丈。
4. (as Curious as)
Lot
’
s wife
罗德的妻子
Curious as
Lot
’
s wife
, she
has made himself unpopular among her friends.
她在她的朋友中不受欢迎因为她的八卦。
1.
Sell
one
’
s birthright for a mess
of stew/pottage
为了一顿炖菜出卖一
个人与
生俱来的权利
Jason has given up
his legal studies to work on an
oilrig
石油钻台
, and
although he
’
s
earning a lot, it seems to me that
he
’
s
sold his
birthright
for a mess of
pottage
.
杰森放弃了他的法律研究去致力于石油钻台
，
尽管他赚了很多，
但在我看来他捡
了
芝麻丢了西瓜。
2.
My brother Esau is a hairy man, and
I
’
m a man with smooth skin.
我
哥哥以扫是一个有毛的人，我是一个光滑的皮肤的人。
He wanted me to take the exam
for him by sticking my photo onto his exam