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英语习语与风俗习惯（
Idiom
＆
Customs
）
1.
饮食习俗对英语习语的影响
（面包，牛油，果酱，牛奶，茶，奶酪）
面包（
bread
）
①
Earn
one
's
bread
谋生
e.g
he
earns
his
bread
by
working in a restaurant.
②
Bread
and
circuses
享受物质生活和精神生活
e.g
Saturday is bread and circuses time .
③
Bread and
butter
必需品
e.g
don 't quarrel with your
bread and
butter .
④
Take
(the
)
bread
out
of
one's
mouth
抢某人的饭碗
e.g
if
you
do
that
,you'll
taking
the
bread
out
of
your
fellow
workers here .
⑤
The
greatest
thing
since
sliced
bread
比较受欢迎的
人或事物
e.g
i
don't
know
why
people
think
so
highly
of
him :he only taught in
America and he was just a teacher .
⑥
Know (on) which side one's bread is
buttered
知道如
何笼络人心
⑦
Butter both
sides of one's bread
从两边获利
<
/p>
牛油（
butter
）
< br>
①
Butter up (
涂牛油
)
讨好，巴结
< br>
②
（
look at if
）
butter wouldn't melt in
one's mouth
装
得很娇弱
e.g
when
a
visiter
comes
in
she
smiles
and
languishes ,you'd think
that butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth .
奶酪（
cheese
）
①
Big cheese
大人物
e.g he said his goal was to become
the big cheese in the company .
②
Whole
cheese
自以为自己很重要
e.g
john
said
he
was the whole cheese in the project
because he thought the
idea .
③
Hard cheese
④
Cheese cake
性感的女性
果酱（
< br>jam
）
①
Like /want jam
on it
希望好上加好
②
Money for jam
容易做的事，容易赚的钱（
no money
for jam
不容易做的事）
③
Jam tomorrow
兑现不了的承诺
茶（
tea
）
①
For all the tea
in China .(
多用于否定句中
)
报酬很多
②
Cup
of
tea
喜欢的东西
e.g
pop
music
is
hardly
my
father's cup of tea .
③
A storm in a
tea cup .
小题大做
牛奶（
milk
）
①
Milk for babies
e.g this book is really
milk for babies .
②
Come (go)home with the milk
③
There's no use
crying over split milk
馅饼（
pie)
①
As easy as pie
e.g The exam
was as easy as pie .
②
Have a (one's )finger in every pie
在每件事情上都要
参与
e.g she always wants to
have a finger in the pie if the
class
organizes some activities .
③
Eat
humble
pie
被迫低身下气的做一件事
e.g
Tom
told a
lie about George ,and when he was found out ,he
had
to eat humble pie .
④
Pie in the sky
不能保证实现的许诺
酒吧文化（
pub
< br>）
啤酒（
< br>beer
）
①
Beer and
skittles
悠闲自得的生活
e.g life is not only
beer
and skittles .
②
Small beer
（淡啤酒）指小人物，
无关紧要的事
e.g
the other
girls seemed very small beer to me in comparison
with her .
③
Cry in one's beer (
在酒里哭
)
指借酒消愁
④
On the beer
烂醉如泥，狂欢
⑤
Drink
one's
beer
让。
。
。闭嘴
e.g
he
kept
talking
all
the time ,finally i had to ask him to
drink his beer .
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