英语词语漫谈 与Back和Leg有关的习语

以leg为中心词也可组成很多英语习语。①pull sb's leg直译为“拉后腿”,转义为“骗人,取笑某人,愚弄某人”;例如:Stop pulling my leg,will you!别再拿我开玩笑了!／I suspected that he was pulling my leg．我怀疑他是在愚弄我。②shake a leg相当于hurry up,意为“赶紧,赶快”;例如:We’d better shake a leg or we’ll miss the train．我们得快点,否则就赶不上那班火车。／Shake a     

留心习语免误会

1．pull someone’s leg嘲笑愚弄某人 看起来pull someone’s leg好像是我们汉语中的“拖某人的后腿”。其实在英语口语中,pull my leg的意思是“你在戏弄我”,和You are kidding me．的意思一样。     

A Parrot''''s Answer

A boy goes to a pet shop to buy a parrot.There he sees a parrot with a red string tied to itsleft leg and a green string tied to its right leg. He asks the owner the significance of thestrings. "Well.this is a highly trained parrot.Ifyou pull the red string he speaks French; if you     

不要拉我的大腿

一位德国人到美国读书，顺带学习英语。一次，他对—位漂亮的女同学说：“You have beautiful legs：”(你的腿真美)。对方微笑着回答说：“Stop pulling my leg．”(不要开我的玩笑)。这位德国学生显然不明白pulling my leg的意思，很郑重地说道：“T‘m not pulling your legs I‘m just looking at them．”(我并没有拉你的大腿，我只是看看而己。)所以我们要牢牢记住这些比喻句，以免产生误会。     

STORIES

Bruce got on the bus early in the morning. He was going to the next town to visit one of his friends. He had got up very early, and he felt tired. Soon he fell asleep. A short while later, he woke up in the middle of a dream. In his dream, he was in a busy street. People were pushing him hard and pulling at his clothes. As he woke up, he found that it wasn＇t only a dream.Somebody was really pulling at his coat pocket.     

“Give”&“Take”宁死不给

One of Nasreddin’s friends loved moneyvery much,and he would never give anything toanybody.He was rich, but not many peopleloved him or understood him. One day he was walking along the riverwith his friends when he slipped and fell intothe river.His friends ran to help him.One ofthem knelt on the ground,holding but his hand,said, “Give me your hand,and I'll pull youout!”     

STORIES

正A Bruce got on the bus early in the morning.He was going to the next town to visit one of his friends.He had got up very early,and he felt tired.Soon he fell asleep.A short while later,he woke up in the middle of a dream.In his dream,he was in a busy street.People were pushing him hard and pulling at his clothes.As he     

Mr.No Moves to China

<正>The word “no” is one of the first words English-speaking children usually say when they are learning to talk. This is because they hear it so often from their parents.“No, sweetie, do not play with the television.”“No, dearest son, do not pull Mommy's hair.” It was no surprise to me when my son began saying “no” to everything when he was 18 months old. He would often copy the way we reprimanded him, even shaking his little finger at us, much to our amusement.     

Which Is Better？

Once upon a time an elephant anda monkey had a quarrel(争吵). Theelephant was proud because he was sostrong. “Look, how big and strong Iam! ”he said. “I can pull a tree down,can you?”     

完形填空练习(英文)

(A)A traveler lost his way and got off the highway to see where he was.As he drove by, he saw rows and rows of pigpens (猪舍) and pigs __1__in the fields. Suddenly, his eye caught __2__. It looked like a pig with awooden leg!     

A Dentist

Mr Baker was a strong man. He was a good footballplayer and spent a lot of time on the game when hestudied in a medical callege (医学院). But he was hurtonce when he was playing football with his friends. Hisright leg was broken in the accident and he couldn't playany longer. He was sorry for it and liked to watch thegame. Now the young man worked in a hospital. He was agood dentist (牙医) and many patients asked him forhelp. He was always busy and had little time to watchthe matches. He had to watch them on TV at home in     

看笑话,学英语

Like Father,L ike Son“W hen A braham Lincoln was your age,the father told his son,“he used to”walk ten m iles every day to get to school.”“R eally?”the son said.“W ell,when he was your age,he was president.”有其父必有其子一位父亲告诉他儿子,“亚伯拉罕·林肯跟你一样大时,他每天走10英里路去上学。”“是吗?”儿子回答道。“嗯,他跟你一样大时,已经当总统了。”Even W orse“H ow is business?”asked Leo,as he walked into his friend’sdress shop.“Terrible,com plained Tom.“Business is awful.Ye…     

The Monkey and the Cat

Once upon a timethere lived two friends a cat and a monkey. One day the monkey found some chestnuts in a fire. He wanted to eat the chestnuts but he was afraid of burning his hand so he took the cat to the fire and said "Look  here is a fine dinner for us. I have found these chestnuts but your claws are sharper than mine. So if you will pull them out of the fire we will have a great dinner together."The cat agreed to it,and began to pull the chestnuts out of the fire.Shebur…     

英语中“原因”的多种表达法

提起“因为、由于”,人们便能想到because,这是一个极为普通的表示原因的词。那么,还有哪些方法能表示这个意思呢?笔者通过搜集整理,归纳如下: 一、because of为复合介词,后应接名词或名词性短语,可用于句首也可用在句中。 Because of his bad leg, he couldn't walk as fast as the others、因为他的腿有毛病,他不能跟别人走得一样快。     

美国习语与运用(五)

bend over backwards这一习语的意思为“尽最大的努力”。1.She bent over backwards to showthat she had overlooked the incident.她尽最大的努力来证明她忽视了这一事件。2.She bent over backwards to make sure that he was always pleased.她竭力使他经常感到高兴。     

驴子和赶驴人

A Donkey was being driven down a mountain road.and afterjogging along(慢跑)for a while sensibly enough,he suddenly left thetrack and rushed to the edge of a precipice(悬崖). He was just about to leap over the edge when his Driver caughthold of(抓住)his tail and did his best to pull him back:but Dull as hemight he conldn't get the Donkey to budge(微微移动)from the     

新目标英语七年级(上) Units 10—12单元重难点解析

1.I want to join the art club.我想加入艺术俱乐部。①want to do sth.表示“想要做某事”的意思。例如:I want to make friends with you.我想和你交朋友。—What does your brother want to be in the fu-ture<你兄弟将来想做什么?—He wants to be a scientist.他想当科学家。②join是“加入(某个组织或团体)”的意思。club是名词,意思是“俱乐部”,“社团”。例如:join the chess/English/music/club加入象棋/英语/音乐/游泳俱乐部We join the country club.我们加入乡村俱乐部。2.Tom can play the guitarbut he can’t play it v…     

英美常用口语例析(四十二)

The coast is clear“coast”是“海岸”,“clear”是形容词,此处指“安详的,宁静的”。“The coast is clear”喻指“太平无事,情况平静,障碍排除,无人阻挡”的意思。例句:The boys waited till the coast was clear before they climbedover into the park.这些男孩一直等到四下无人才爬墙进入公园。Thecoast is clear for you to be here or whenever you like to come.在这里你将平安无事,你什么时候来都行。又如:Before I left,he said,“Letme look out and see whether the coast is clear,”在我离开之前,他说,“让我先看看外面是否安全。”     

狼和鹤

1.There was an old wolf.He did a lot of bad things.A ll of the other anim alshated him but were afraid of him.有一只老狼,干了许多坏事,大家对他又恨又怕。2.O ne day,the wolf had got a bonestuck in his throat and in the greatestagony he ran up and dow n.有一天,老狼的喉咙被骨头卡住了,他非常痛苦地跑来跑去。olden3.He begged every anim al he met tohelp him pull out the bone,and heprom ised to give a high rew ard to the suc-cessful operator.B ut none did it.他向他所碰到的每一个动物求救,并许诺救他的人…     

超级成语SHOW

1.hold out the olive branch愿意讲和A:I haven’t heard the quarrelling of them for a long time.B:Me too.What had happened?A:They have reconciled with each other.B:Who is the first that had such intention?A:Robert,I think.Because he has told me that he was tiredof the constant quarrelling.B:I see.So he finally extended the olive branch to his neighbor.A:好长时间都没听见他们吵架了。B:就是。有什么事发生吗?A:他们已和解了。B:谁先有这个意思的?A:我想是罗伯特吧。因为他曾对我说过他厌倦了无休止的…