英语习语与风俗习惯 (选修课作业)

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